Found this summer in a workshop in the Kootenays. The stove was rough when I found it but it looked salvagable, I thought. The mark on the tank suggests it was made in January 1964. I've worked on it and got a lot of it cleaned up, the coil in the generator wouldn't budge until we used Kroil to free it. Big challenges: 1) it's missing the legs. The friend who this came from stated that the legs would get hot and pop out and the stove would fall with hot things on it. So they pulled the legs and riveted on sheet metal rolled up. It was crude, it kind of worked but I wanted nothing to do with that so I drilled out the rivets and put bolts with a pair of nuts in the rivet holes. It will pass for now but I'm guessing there might be a better answer (like finding some metal and bending it to shape... not that I have a pattern for that shape but that hasn't stopped me so far). Any ideas on this are welcome. 2) when I went to undo the metering rod it broke off and when I took the valve apart and looked closely at the valve stem you can see in the pictures, I'm kinda hooped. It broke off at the valve stem. I have a valve stem coming from old coleman parts (I got lucky this time when I looked to see if they had one) and I bought a generator from amazon, so I'm optimistic I can solve this. BUT I would love to see if I could salvage the valve stem I have. Any suggestions? 3) there's a hole in the tank. I dropped a bunch of small screws and nuts in along with some solvents to break up and deal with rust (which I could see from looking in the tank through the opening) and by the time I was done the tank was leaking in earnest. From the look of the paint I'm assuming the leak was there before I started. My plan is JB Weld TankWeld. It will be lumpy and unpretty but it should hold pressure which is what I care about. The Big Question... have I wasted my time? I like the larger suitcase stoves from coleman cause I can get a full sized cast iron pan on the thing and still have room for a pot as well on the second burner and I'm still foolish enough to prefer white gas to propane. I'm in Canada and finding parts or even other 413F stoves is not trivial. Thank you for your thoughts.
