Here is my Primus No.30 (1921). It came with the small silent burner, not a roarer. This stove was originally sold in Australia by Brandt Bros (Sydney). It is a beautiful little stove and is now one of my favourites. The Brandt Bros. plate. The bits (A/B B. A. Hjorth & Co Stockholm): The silent burner does not carry a part number, but looks the same as the No. 4204 burner on my 1947 Primus 210. As it came (I removed a lot of pasty solder). First lighting after fettling: Low flame High flame. Reproduction pressed steel small trivet. It easily accounted for 1 litre of cold water. I needed to do some fettling on this stove, mainly to get rid of all of the pasty solder around the burner riser and filler cap. I will post the fettle on this stove later in the week. Brandt Bros no longer exists as a stand alone company with a shop front. It was bought by TW Sands (Melbourne, Australia) quite some time ago. Cheers Tony
Tony that is is a really nice stove and you have photographed it well for the CCS archives. I have not seen many examples of this Primus fixed leg, one pint stove. Yours is made much rarer by having the 'Brandt Bros' distributor's badge. It always was a powerful stove for its tank size because it normally came with the same roarer burner (R127) as the two pint No. 1 stove. However, as it has a fixed tank riser the burner could easily be changed for the silent burner (R133) as used on the two pint Primus No. 5 stove or the slightly smaller silent burner (R132) used on the No.4 stove.
@shagratork Thanks. I had a trawl through the Reference Library to see how the No.30 was configured in the catalogues. This 1930s burner list has it with the 4127 (roarer); and the 4 and 34 with a 4125/6 silent: https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/1930s-primus-burners-overview.21383/ Similarly here: https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/1930s-primus-burners-overview.21383/ And in English: https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/1922-primus-catalogue-no-836.190/ Cheers Tony
I have sister stoves, No.30 and No.34, they are great favourites of mine. Size and power output are ideal for most tasks, the No.5 can be awkward to stow away. Alec
Hi Tony Your stove is from 1921 and so I quoted information from the 1922 catalogue here, and your stove specifically from here.
@shagratork Trevor I'm sorry if I gave the impression I was contradicting you comments above. I was only trying to post all the links I could find in the Library, and the burners they were illustrated with (as this one came sans-roarer). The last link I used was the 1922catalogue. I've been using this little beast this morning. I like it very much. I need, though, to get a replacement period "a/b B. A. HJORTH & Co. Sweden" pump cap, as the one it came with is severely cross-threaded. Cheers Tony
The pump tube caps always have very fine threads and once cross threading has occurred it is almost impossible to un-cross them. Is it the cap that has the crossed threads or the pump tube? Sods Law says it will be the cap. I also like the stove a lot. Its proportions are very attractive. Is the tank the same size and shape as similar period 210?
@shagratork I'll check it out against the 210s I've got (last time I looked they were breeding in my shed while I wasn't looking...). It is the cap that is cross threaded, not the tube. Any other small diameter Primus pump cap will tighten, no worries. As a matter of fact the pump cap has been abused - it has a chip out of it, as well as being cross threaded. At the moment all is fine, because I have used some threading goo (non-hardening) to keep it in place. I'll put a "Wanted" add for a replacement. If worse comes to worse, I'll get another pump cap off a common-or-garden pump and cut the threaded bit off and braze it to the original cap. I'll probably post the fettle for this stove tonight. Cheers Tony
The fettle of this stove is here: https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/full-fettle-of-a-primus-no-30.33934/#post-347233 Cheers Tony
@kerry460 Thanks, Kerry. I'll be in touch. Ignore what I said in my last comment about the pump. I need a cap that says "Primus Made in Sweden". (I was mixing my pump and filler caps up). Cheers Tony
I once made me this little overview of the smallest fixed leg stoves and their burners. I have a No 0 stove, never even seen a No 4. A No 4 or even better a No 34 is high on my wish list. So far I only have a couple of burners. The smallest and the bigger burners have different threads on them and are not interchangeable. You can however fit a R132 to a No 0 stove, or a R127 to a No 4 stove. The R127/4127 is the same burner as fitted to the No 210. All the best, e PS. Who find the typos?
@Tony Press Bingo! No 2s and No 3s are bigger and my dyslexic list do not go that high – so it seems.8)8)8) But seriously, yes there are plenty of more stoves/burner combinations. There is also the R126 – a newer version of the R132 before it turns into the 4126 sometimes in the later Twenties. Isn’t it fantastic – on can spend half a lifetime and still there are much more to figure out. A beautiful stove you have there – envy envy envy … All the best, e
