Hi guys. I'm 18 months late. Mostly 'cos I moves house about the time I discovered stove tinkering, and lost the gadget that take the pictures off the camera in the move. I have just now found the the widget and can now show you what I've been up to. With a view to actually using it while going camping or hiking (I've since discovered the quiet pleasure of fettling a fixer-upper), this was my first "previously enjoyed" stove that I've acquired. It's an 'in the box' - although it's a tatty and shelf-damaged or water-damaged box - Optimus 8r. I believe it had been fired at least once, rather than being totally virginal. Here's the pic the e[vil]bay vendor put up It arrived in April or May 2011, and I promptly had a go with it, even if I just made coffee. Here's my first test-fire And three shots from the second test-run a couple of months later - I'm glad to say the flame is looking a lot bluer. (And yes that is the wind-shield from a Primus 1-pinter in the background, but that's another story...) It's since been on a couple of camps with me and I can't fault it for stationary camping. The working parts rattle around the clam-shell if I go backpacking though, unless I carefully stuff my tea-towel into the casing. Other than that it's wonderfully rugged engineering of the sort that you just don't see anymore.
Thanks - But I've mucked up the photo-insertion and will have to re-do it once I've figured out *how*.
So we don't loose the pics sometime in the future we don't allow 3rd party hosted pics in the reference sections (that's not why they aren't showing). I don't have time to save them locally & upload to the ccs server at the mo but will do so later today.
Thanks for your help with the pics, Trevor. I'll look up how to do it right before I try that again. Wow - I'm moved to the Reference gallery!? I'm moved!