hello folks, glad to have found this forum. Been using this old workhorse for possibly, 45+ years. It runs directly from a butane bottle ( blue), no regulator. This week I took it to my local handy store for a refill and got the bad news. ‘ we dont refill them anymore, all bottles now have to have a fitting that takes a universal regulator’. So got a new bottle with the universal regulator ( as per the photos ) and of course the cooker barely lights at all. So Im thinking, the original burner nozzles were set to work with bottle pressure and I’m hoping I can get a couple that will allow the cooker to work from this new regulator. please have a butchers at the pics. I know, its in a state but its been used for some brutal camping trips and as a workshop smelter for making lead weights. Give me a verdict, is it salvageable, can I get nozzles that might allow it to fire up again. thank you.
Needs bottle pressure. Take off the regulator and get a fitting that goes straight into the new bottle crimp it onto the existing hose
Welcome to CCS @peterdewolf You may be able to replace the nipples (jets) with ones designed for the lower regulated pressure. Quite often the threads are the same its just the size of the hole thats larger.
to do that you would have to change the whole burner. Oner burner needs high velocity gas flow the other not so much
thanks for the response. I see you're in NZ. The butane bottles here now come with a connection that only takes the universal regulator. I wouldnt know where to start to change that. Think youd have to empty the bottle first, dismantle the connector and hope I could cobble together something else. If i got that far it would all have to be reversed to refill the bottle.
thank you for the welcome. thats what I was hoping to do. I took a burner jet out of my kitchen hob and tweaked it into the camping stove ( just got one turn as the threads are defo different ) but enough to seat it. The hole in the jet is app 0.5 mm. The hole in my stove jet is barely visible with the naked eye ! Turned on the stove and the burner was enveloped in blue flame but no force to it at all. So maybe a bit of potential there. the handy store sell csmping stoves and a quick look at them show burners that are identical to mine, even the air holes below the burner are very similar and they run from the same butane bottle and universal regulator that I now have.
Starting to think that what would be ideal is a Kosangas clip on connector that was simply a pass-through connection ( minus the regulating function ).
Ok so my local handy store told me there was no such product. Well they want to sell me a new two burner camping stove for £145-00. As a result of people on this forum prodding my gray matter I’ve found this. To me this looks like what I need. What do you think
