Optimus 155 dismantling/reassembly

Brilliant thank you. Would you be willing to mentor me to restore mine? I also have a force 10 kerosene heater with a pressurized tank I think there are one or two missing parts connecting the hose one being a filter.

 

Ask away!

I have a photo from your introductory post, in which you say,

I see that your stove has two ways of pressurising the fuel tank, the Optimus ‘Mini-pump’ operating on the filler cap that I’m pointing at with a red pointer and the inbuilt pump, yellow pointer. You’ve used the stove so I guess you knew that.

Initial questions:-

1. Which option, mini-pump or inbuilt pump, have you been using to pressurise the tank? … or both?
2. Since you say there are no leaks, do you mean when pressurised and fired up, or perhaps you simply mean there are no pools of kerosene from standing unused?
3. If you’ve used it successfully in the recent past, is preventative maintainance what you want to do, rather than have the stove fail on you when offshore?

John