Brother in law strikes again...Unfired BAT 2/607

My brother in law is awesome and sent me another stove for Christmas all the way from Slovakia. I don't know how he finds them but apparently he just looks for "old kerosene cooker" and when it looks like this I guess it's an easy gift.
Never seen an unfired one before.... Very cool.
Merry Christmas everyone!

 

Is that NIB? Nice find!

 

Yes, looks like a ‘new in box’ BAT. Excellent. Manufactured some four years before DDR was no more.

 

Yeah its pretty cool @Pharael @fjfj765 but I think the NRV is damaged...maybe it was a factory second or something....going to have a hell of a time getting it out. The NRV head is ripped off haha...my luck

 

A few Bat stove I’ve come across have had a fault of some kind. Usually to do with bad threads, probably from poor manufacturing quality control.


Cheers

Tony

 

@Remus1956 I know the feeling.
Having to currently remove a pump tube from a Burmos 96….in my case, I believe the end of the tube is cracked as new NRV installed still has pressure leaking through the tube. Have come across this a number of times before with Burmos stoves as have many CCS members. Poor manufacturing. Good luck!

 

@Remus1956 you can still find new old stock. various sites, places/countries in good condition. here's one from Romania. shown price is about 100 euros no shipment. if in Romania adress cost of shipment at your door is about 5 euros on plus for shown price.
works only with pump gasoline. I think. never had one!
p.s. corection : shipment at your door/adress for this stove is FREE

cheers
Arzator benzina BAT Nr. 45/1 German - Primus - surplus militar - ca nou

 

at least yours is more "fancy" copper and brass :-)

 

@Tony Press Oh thats interesting. the only BAT I have is a blue 45/2 and that is a solid stove, no complaints there. this one...haha
@Pharael Yeah....I got it opened up...said to myself "first lets check out the NRV...gonna make a new gasket" and took the pump out to look down the pump tube with a flash light...something was not right and there is no head on the NRV to grab. Looks ripped off clean. Figure is a project, and if cant get out I can use the trivet and burner for parts...so yeah it only cost like $20 bucks for him...no real loss
@Gabriel Lorin oh man haha...thats intersting! I will have to keep that one in mind. Usually I use a few czech and slovak websites where people sell used stuff and have been pretty successful in getting really good stoves for a really good price but this is the first turd I have gotten haha. I guess I cant win them all.

 

carefull Remus. once you start buying stoves you might not ever stop...
I noticed that too, with stoves plus another "hobby" I won't mention here. :-)
if I have a stove that works ok ,I don't buy anything else. Got too much things in the past piling up and I realized there is a problem :-) especially if it's a passion.
cheers

 

@Tony Press @Pharael I had one of those moments where I was about to just give up on it but with the help of the wife and about 45 minutes I was just about to stop but gave it a lost shot and heard a big "clink" and the damned thing came out.

I've installed a new one and a gasket as the factory forgot to put one in it...

I think I'm going to frame it... As you can see there is no head on that nrv... It was gone

 

Much better…


Cheers

Tony

 

Good to see the extractor method (finally) worked on the NRV. Nice job.

 

Well @Pharael @Tony Press when the stove is unfired .. It doesn't mean it doesn't still have problems haha.
Holidays are over so now back to updating this post. Soon after I managed to get the headless NRV out it ran just fine. Odd that it only uses one burner gasket as two are too thick... But again no complaints until a few minutes in. Then I had to rush over to shut it off as it was smoking and smelled terrible like burning plastic.
The trivet which was a really nice pretty gold color was now bubbled and black...and the burner tubes were bubbling??
The hell??
So took both the trivet and the burner to the light of my magnifying glass and low and behold.... They were painted! The trivet and burner were both unfired as the metal underneath the paint was clean and unstained by heat. This was a gold painted trivet and a copper painted burner. Makes sense as if my stove was from the 80's and still looked like it did in the box but seriously.... Did they just burn them clean?
Well I don't like to do that...so off to the magical electrolysis tank as I had not drained it yet...dug a few dead bugs out and back to sizzling away.

2 hours later and a layer of gold and copper paint was floating at the top of the solution and used a toothbrush to take off the last bits
Baked some ceramic high heat paint primer and then high heat painted the trivet black and just blew out the burner and left that bare.
Looks great now and I used it for about a week making new years Slavic ham and sauerkraut soup... works and looks great now.

Seriously... Painted? Haha

 

@Remus1956 As Tony mentioned earlier, these don't have the best reputation for quality, so it's perhaps not a great surprise. Some versions of later Bat stoves seem very prone to stress cracking, fingers crossed for this one. Does your example have a steel tank bottom?

 

@Blackdog No...this one has a brass bottom. I know what you mean with the threads, the burner threads are a little wonkey so I plan to keep it set up without taking the burner off unless I have to.
Funny...new unfired

 

@Remus1956 - Nice job.
Whilst I have a number of BAT stoves and fortunately experienced no issues, as @Blackdog confirms, later models could be problematic. I have though experienced stress cracks with some Meva & certain CCCP stoves. Using POR15 High Performance Fuel Tank Sealer has then saved these (paraffin) stoves.

 

@Blackdog more photos .. unlike the one in the link mine says made in GDR...so pre 90's. Quality is fine except that they forgot to install a NRV lead gasket with a headless nrv (must have shared off when installed) and some unclean threads on the burner...
Oh yeah... Did I tell you they painted it? Haha.

@Pharael tank sealant eh? I do have a Vienna Primus that leaks ... Hmm

 

I am a BATman..lol

 

@Pharael - a new profile photo?