My vote is the large end to the base oriented.
I got a cheap one I’ve used for a couple of years. It has started to only recently started to smell of gas when using liquid feeding the fly can...
Thanks Ed It appears I have had a relapse of the dreaded stove pox. Thinking of converting a msr Whisperlite to metho and gas for a s/s stove...
Bought this stove about 20 years ago. [ATTACH] It has been on some of the roughest corrugated tracks and roads. I have mostly ever burnt kerosene...
Don’t forget the one on the burner head connection. There is an other ball for a valve in the pump handle cap. Over pressure valve if you didn’t...
I presume the mesh is to help subdue the pulsing. My 111T choofs away and self pressurise the tank. I tend to add about 10% of water to the metho...
Yes and oil the leather pump cap. My last of 3 pumps just failed. They all developed a crack where the fuel line screws in on the thinnest...
No I haven't. But still play with my stoves thou.
Oddball wanted verification of stove date. But oddball don't seem to exist.
msr stove pic. slightly used but in pristine condition with custom burner plate n all. date numbers [ATTACH] Bloody thing still works !!!...
I did one once. Cut off a butane nipple seat of a dead burner. Used that as a nipple seat and brazed it in the lipstick top. The jets you can...
8 thou orifice. I took a jet and tried to figure it out. Unfortunately its all a blurr and can't determine much. Guess we are both out of luck. 48...
You got one that needs fixing??? I'll See If I can take some measurements. The jet is 10 thou if i remember new.
Just put a red hot rod down on the nrv to loosen the lead washer has worked for me. :oops: except for the time the end cap fell in the tank and...
My older sigg bottle and firejet stove are sort of mated. I won't use it in any other bottle. It has conformed to the threads. The earlier Sigg...
Ever tried putting out a meths fire with water??? It takes a lot more than you think if the surrounds are hot as well. Think of a bucket...
Since they were in use in the antartic up until recently. Well they have sold off a lot of stoves last year. (I'm only presuming here) I can't see...
Go take the tank cap down to the local machine shop and buy an o-ring thats fits neat in the inside of the cap. A thick one. It will squeeze down...
To run kero in the m50 mine anyways. Try a 5/8 washer on the burner rebound plate. O.d is about 35mm thickish one. I also wrapped some wire...
Well I'll be !!!! I find shellite more fumey and offensive than kero in the smell. I tend to get weird dreams if I use it in an enclosed space....
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