This pre-1911 Primus No.5 is in the Reference Gallery, here. Here are some notes on the fettle. 1. The burner. The burner came with a wrecked outer flame ring and no cap; and a brass inner flame ring which was (is) fused to the spigot: The damaged outer ring was removed: The remnants of the ring were ground down with a Dremel (following advice given here): ... and a standard primus-type outer ring fitted: I used my fingers and a rounded bar to get the bell of the burner back into shape, but it is still a bit wonky - I don't want to distort it too much. 2. The rest of the stove was fine, except for a bad patch of scratches and the rather sloppy job of re-attaching one of the legs: This proved to be a rather bigger job than I anticipated. The leg had been re-attached with a thick band of silver solder which would not run under normal soldering temperature. I filled the tank with water and plugged the pump tube with wet rag and then used a MAP torch to melt as much of the solder as I could without damaging the rest of the stove: I then has to cut away the last bit of hard solder at the bottom of the leg with a small hacksaw blade. I removed the leg, cleaned up the previous repair and re-attached the leg with ordinary solder: This job, and some previous scratches meant that I had to polish the stove to get it even (Autosol and rag - no . I will now wait until it develops a bit of patina before it heads off to to Mawson's Huts museum in Hobart. Cheers Tony
Looks so good, better than the late model they have. I will look out for it next time I visit. Cheers Rob
Hi Tony, have you seen this neat way of straightning a burner skirt? https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/simple-jig-for-reshaping-a-silent-burner-skirt.25343/ Best Regards, Kerophile