A peaceful calm has descended on home and countryside since I've taken a break (temporarily) from roarer burner stoving with Gary's minicap on the Svea 123 and the use of meths-burning stoves. Latest of these is this Turm Sport I've given the Touring Turm a coat of high-temp paint since I featured it in the Stove Ref Gallery The Turm Sport's got some amazing bodywork made up of complex steel pressings. This spring-loaded button ... ... and this folded lip at the other end of the case ... ... are part of the arrangement to pack the stove and open it up for use Here's the stove ready for folding, with the 'lid' set to one side ... ... while the fuel tank flips around and into the storage position The action has been well thought out, making sure that clearances are just enough to allow everything to stow away The cover set aside while the tank was stowed goes over this ... ... and a circular plate clips onto the burner tube I set the flash on the camera to pick out the complexity of the internal ribs and brackets for stowing the pot rests away The paint has a lustrous quality I like, so although it's flaked off in places I'll not be stripping this like I did with the Touring Turm The instructions (what's left of them) printed on the fuel tank The filter was in poor shape, so I made a new one as I did for the Touring Turm, taking more strands of fibreglass from the solder mat. It made all the difference to the burner's effectiveness The flame's controllable from a really low simmer right up to full pitch. I've noticed too that a replacement filter prevents the tendency of these stoves to flood when the burner's adjusted to full heat. With a decent filter, it just reaches a maximum and goes no further I've a few more pictures to post, which I'll do in a 'reply'. John
Those pot-rests allow for a variation in pot base size, from a 'wide' setting ... ... to a 'narrow' setting for pots with a narrower base The styling of these Turm packaway stoves is distinctive. I reckon the '50's styling of the Sport model and the 70's styling of the Touring version mirror the styling of automobiles of those decades - curvy '50's and wedge-shaped, angular '70's designs Maybe the notion of automobile styling isn't so far-fetched. The 'hood' air vents on the Turm Sport reveal the carburettor beneath Yeah, peace and quiet in the presscall household, for the time being at least. John
Hi, John, Lovely, Mate! Like you, I do enjoy a fine Meths stove, and it's strengths are reliability, ease of use, and peace and quiet. Very nice, indeed!! Thanks for sharing that one with us. Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
Very nice indeed John. I only have a Turm Sport, but I like the look of the Touring Turm when closed. Like an over size cigarette case perhaps. Neat and retro looking. Almost, but not quite, art deco. R
these are fine and often over looked stoves.if my trust level for the rotating fuel line was a bit higher i would take this on canoe trips.now it fills the bill as a tea boiler on short hikes. nice to see you still have the decal on yours, on mine and others i have see that has been burned off by users who must think that plate is a heat damper. did you time any boil tests?mine burns much hotter that i would have thought for a meth stove.
Hi all, John nice tutorial once again and nice stove. I was gifted a Turm Sport - thanks BD - and find it to be a very nice stove, performs well and perfect tea and rice making. The only "thing" I had little trouble with was the filler cap system. When it first arrived , I was unfamiliar with it's operation and immediately just added some meths, tightened the filler cap , did some pre-heat and fired it up. Well after a few minutes the flame started to dye out - I scratched my head and then remembered from my other gravity fed meths stoves, the filler lid must be able to pass air to allow for the flow of meths. My Punkers have a hole in the top of the cap to allow for air to pass in . Well the Turm Sport does not have such a design , so the filler cap must be loosened to allow for air to pass into the tank. I loosened the cap a little and she runs fine. But then when you go to stow the stove you must remember to tighten it back down tight and of course when you use it again , one must remember to un-tightnen it for running. This is the only issue I have with these otherwise super running meths stove here's mine : Fullout Lovely simmer Tom
Heck no, Dave, I've only once compared the heat output of different stoves, for fun, and posted the results on CCS and it got me into hot water, as it were. "If a stove will get me through a trek of Annapurna without leaving me hanging around for a brew and a cooked meal so long I get frostbite - it's fast enough." [A User, not a Collector of stoves] You're right though, the Turm stoves work well. I've one other gravity meths stove, this one ... HPV meths stove ... and it doesn't work as well as the Turms, probably because the fuel tank's barely higher than the burner so the gravity flow must be less and the flame height and intensity is visually less. Thanks all, John
Where the heck did you find these?!?! I want one!!! I've seen 4 on eBay recently, but they went sky high on the price. One sold for $260, and another sold for $142... too much!!!
I finally procured myself a Turm Sport... Shown here with my Vulcano. If you look closely at the pot stands, you'll see that they're not the original ones. I had to fabricate a pair to fit this one. Let me tell you, it wasn't easy to bend the rods. In fact, they broke, so I had to weld smaller rods at the base of the curl. I had contemplated using brass, and I still might. Anyway, for your approval...
