The Meta 80 features in this catalogue ... Meta catalogue in CCS Stove Ref Library ... on this page as the 'Traveller Cooker' Meta 80, Traveller Cooker That's it in operating mode, but the component parts are the burner for solid (Meta) fuel blocks, pan and lid, stove burner housing/pot rest frame The burner base has spigots on its base that fit slots in the stove burner housing ... ... and here's the burner slotted into place with a small charge of Meta fuel blocks ready for lighting, nowhere near enough to boil the litre capacity of water of the pan, but the fuel's no longer made and this is just a demo The fuel is clean burning and doesn't leave much of a residue In this topic Meta stoves in Stove Ref Gallery Absolutely. A small Trangia burner is a good fit in the burner base Not as clean a burn as the Meta fuel though, thanks to the dodgy quality of meths we seem to have in the UK at the moment, but powerful enough The stove packs up neatly from this ... ... folding up the burner cap lifting handle on the way ... to this Some details next. The cut-out for the burner has a clever steel strip reinforcing lintel (header, USA?) arrangement The engraving on the base A Primus Litech kettle is a good size for the stove In terms of scale, the Meta 80 is smaller than a Meta 50, but (in the stack below) larger than the Meta 75 (middle) and larger still than the Meta 42, known as the 'Meta Cup' (top) Svea 123 alongside for comparison John
hi John thanks for the pics looks to be one to keep an eye out for re dirty meths have you tried pure methanol? you can get it cheap on the bay and it burns with no soot or discolouration i have litres of meths downstairs but i won't use it now that i have tried methanol my meta 50 sooted up some thing awful on meths but using methanol the pans look new even after heavy use pure ethanol would be even better but i can't find it anywhere atb Bill
I am very tempted to get some methanol for my Trangias. I believe it is used in biodiesel production.
Here in the states we have a product called HEET sold as a gasline de-icer. It comes in two different versions. Iso heet in a red bottle is iso-propyl alcohol and not really good for stoves. However i read the materials safety data sheet for the yellow bottled HEET and it lists the contents as 99% methanol 1% "proprietary ingredient" It works well in trangias, i would not recommend it in stoves with an aluminum component such as a simon stove. It can damage the aluminum. I use alcohol mostly for priming the kerosene stoves now and so if i need a little it's easier to grab a bottle from the trunk of the car (Which unfortunately needs it this time of year) than to go grab the gallon jug of denatured alcohol in the basement.
i know of at least one person on here using ethanol to prime, but he has better contacts than me, i found a local supplier of pure methanol selling it at 50p a litre, much cheaper than meths
I have burned pure ethanol (in the lab), it leaves more soot than does methanol. Some say adding 10% water cuts down on the soot; I am not so sure about that. They went to screw caps a couple years ago. At least that is what we have on the right coast. The bottles are now quite handy.
