Hi all, last week I stumbled upon a fascinating little stove on a german classifieds site. It's a Primus 96 fount (X Letter on bottom == 1933?) paired with a regular Burmos roarer. I don't know how the custom riser was made, but all in all it seems like a quality conversion. Interestingly the lipstick burners fuel strainer (brass gauze) is retained in the riser. The last owner swapped the fiber washer between tank and riser for an o-ring sitting inside the fount. I think I'm gonna revert this back, just in case the heat stress is to much for a simple o-ring. After the package arrived I only did a little basic cleaning and maintenance, after which the stove ran perfectly fine. - Polish with microcrystaline wax and 0000 steel wool (more a cleaning of light debris than polishing, I don't need my stoves to be that shiny) - Grease the pump leather - Reseat and prick the jet - Flush the NRV with fresh kerosene Action pictures: I don't know how I should feel about this stove... I kind of like my stoves in unmodified factory condition, but this setup makes kind of sense. Especially considering the ease of maintenance of the burmos burner. For now I will store it in it's tinbox and will try taking it on my next hiking trip. Could be a good 'workhorse' stove / daily driver. What do you think? regards - kk1992
Perfectly sound. Manaslu’s ‘96’ is so equipped. A more powerful burner with the advantage of a replaceable jet when it wears. A Parasene half-pint stove (on the right) comes as standard with a 2-pint stove’s silent burner. The stove on the left is my adaptation of a similar burner to fit to a Burmos 96 tank.
Wow, I didn't know half pinters with regular roarers were this common and commercially available (eg. Manaslu 96). Some previous owner propably got the inspiration for this project by stumbling upon such a stove. This one seems obviously homemade. Notice the two different diameters of the riser nut:
