I've just realised I haven't yet pointed out how much I like this stove- the wirework structure is utilitarian yet gloriously artistic, and as for that burner... what a find! And a typically Australian slightly cheesy name, a tendency which might have come from the US...
@Blackdog Yes Chris, it's certainly "unique"... The Brits have some good "cheeses" too! I'm looking forward to when @Tony Press receives/fettles his. He will be able to do a feature comparison. Hopefully he'll be able to resolve the burner plate height/mixture issue. I'll be back on the "big island" in two weeks, so shall be watching from there. I've got a "few" 2 pinters (seems to be my speciality), lined up already!...
It’s been a busy few months since Rodger’s post above and now, but in the meantime I bought some spare bits and pieces that included an Ezy-Fire heavy brass burner plate. I though this burner plate would do the job on this peculiar Heatapan burner, but when Rodger was here last time we were fiddling around with the old Svea No.1 burners and didn’t get to fire up the Heatapan. So, today I got some time to try it out: the Heatapan with the Ezy-Fire burner plate. —> Excellent results! Notes: Kerosene fuel; 0.32mm jet; requires adequate preheating. Cheers Tony @Rodger Willows @Blackdog
@Tony Press It certainly burns well with the EZY-FYRE flame plate! I’m thinking you might have needed 2 (or more) preheats and judicious flame control to bring it up to that glorious glowing red… Great work!
That flame plate is a beautiful casting, it looks a little delicate though. I suppose the same could be said for the two-piece cast burner bell. The whole stove is a great piece of design though, what a shame they are so scarce! It certainly seems to like having the full volume of the burner bell to achieve a good mixture, in other words a burner plate mounted high.
I’ll post some photos of a naked Eezy-Fyre flame plate after the frost dissipates and the temperature edges above zero, but the flame plate is not delicate, @Blackdog. Tony
@Tony Press Sounds much chillier there than Agnes Water QLD! I too had my spelling incorrect: *EEZY-FFYRE not EZY-FYRE…
This thread has raised another interesting point concerning choice of brand names. I'm no salesman (in fact until recently I've spent my life trying to live hand to mouth, avoiding an excess of money and complications and only now am I trying to learn good business skills and practice, partly for the challenge of something I haven't done, and partly in hope of starting a viable and ethical business in future, health allowing). But one basic business principle I have always known and understood is the importance of making it easy for customers to give you their money. It's something I'm sure we all come across quite frequently- we try to order something but the website is difficult to navigate, or the contact details are hard to find, or nobody answers the phone, or at an event there is nobody manning the stall. Or there are multiple products/companies with similar names, and it's diffcult to remember which one you were recommended. Roll back to the 1940s and 50s, when a lot of business was done by post, or by telephone with often poor clarity, communication was still enough of an issue that use was still sometimes made of the Victorian practice of assigning code words to products to help with clarity when ordering. Given all this it seems a bit bonkers to come up with such an easily muddled name as 'EEZY-FFYRE', this thread has illustrated how difficult it is to get right. Surely this would have led to some lost sales through not being able to track down the product? Perhaps it was less of an issue if customers were simply buying stoves and spare parts from a local ironmonger or other dealer. And perhaps exact spelling was less important in reality in a pre-computer age, and simply stating or writing 'Easy Fire' was close enough to find what you were looking for. It just feels a bit risky compared to choosing a simpler name, e.g. Primus No.1.....
