Well my brother in law strikes again and found me a really rusty meva in really rough shape in Bratislava Slovakia (as well as a weird gas mask) The meva was ... Well... How do I explain it... It was a little nightmare. The wick looked good until I tried to take it out and found that whomever had it before tried to cram a new wick into the charred remains of the old one and made a wick with rope and a coat hanger piece.. Very thick and was a knife fight to get out. Valve was ok but had the typical euro style string with graphite paste on it... That was replaced. It leaked fuel from the connection between the tank and burner...so used high heat tape to seal it over using locktite... That works for me and never had a problem with it. The paint came off with about 5 minutes of citric acid and revealing a lot of spider web like rust.. you can't see it here but this was greenish blue and repainted brown...uhhhh ok? So after priming with high heat ceramic primer I shot a blue I like that's another high heat enamel I was happy with it and started doing my coffee pot tests (see if it has any issues with a 10 cup post of coffee on it) The results were not bad but not great. It seemed to be too far from the pot for the flames to lick the pot Looking into the forum I spotted that these stoves normally come with a flame ring. Interesting. @presscall even made one himself. Well if he can do it I can do it... Looking around my junk I spotted some junk Indian made flame rings for a no1 style 2 pint roarer... They didn't exactly fit. But did when put upside down. This was very much better. It keeps the flame focused on the pot... So there you have it .. Bent up a flame ring to fit. Now doing more tests... Off On Not bad huh? Thanks for reading
Really nice restoration! The repurposing of the flame ring concentrates the flame really well. Pharael.
