The previous owner said that he had "dug it up" and that if it didn't sell, he was going to "toss it". It is missing alot of parts but I think I should be lucky as this is possibly the only example of a Jupiter left in the world. Before I received it, I was hoping to be able to get it operating again with doner and manufactured parts but it was obvious once I had it, that it had cracks in the fuel tank, so it would only be good for display purposes. The burner looks like it could work again if it had the parts required and a little tidy up. It doesn't have the usual hexagonal flats at the base and it looks like it would be tightened using some sort of tool against(around) the main fuel vapour tubes?? The pump tube itself has a collar with 2 small holes oposite each other, requiring a tool to unscrew it totally from the tank so the NRV can be serviced.
What a score! Even in that condition that's a nice stove to have! (Although some of the hard core 'if you can't use it, it's useless' brigade on here may have tossed it like the previous owner ) Many thanks for sharing that with us. I have posted some old material to compliment your post: 1897 advert 1904 Brochure & instructions A sibling, the Sirius, 1903 brochure & instructions
Great stove 3... You could attempt to get the tank done. I have an old AGM lantern with a stress fracture that is going in for repair hopefully next week. The gent doing it is using a product called POR 15 epoxy lining, he and others have used this with some outstanding results. It would be nice to see it run, even if it was just the one time, well thats what I said about my lamp so I am going to give it a crack.
Dunno if I'm just too precious about these things but I'd not line a stove as rare as this just to see it burn.
nice score you could take the bottom off tank and repair the cracks inside tank by soldering and take any dints out any sheet metal worker can do this if your soldering no good love to see it going one day
I have heard about that epoxy stuff, as a friend of mine used it for sealing a leaky classic motorcycle fuel tank.He swore by it that petrol dosen't affect it,so I guess that kerosene should be alright also. Air pressure as well might not be a good idea though. The cracking in the fuel tank is not localised to the one area by the look of it and the rest of the brass might be prone to failure,so apart from installing withen a smaller stove's fuel tank, I would think that it should remain a display piece. I would be hessitant to try to remove anything from the stove, for fear of breaking something. On an earlier post about the Jupiter, a mention was made about the "Patina" being better with the earlier stoves.Possibly the quality of the brass used, varied over time.That may be part of the reason.
