Kerosene-fuelled Superforézien No.1 of 1928. Catalogue illustration, the twin burner No.2 also listed, a surviving example of which features HERE in the Stove Reference Gallery. Burner/fuel tank assembly … … bolts to a sub-frame, which in turn bolts to the main frame. It’s no compact featherweight, posing here alongside a British Army No.12, which at 5.5 kilos (12lbs 2oz) fuelled up is 1.8 kilos (nearly 4lbs) lighter than the Superforézien. In a post in the Stove Forum HERE I referred to the stove’s unique feature of an alternative mechanism to make the use of a stuffing box (graphite seal) on the pricker control spindle unnecessary. This schematic illustrates how it’s done. This photo shows the bend in the control spindle … … that conveys the eccentric movement to the pricker linkage, seen in this video clip Here’s the mechanism coupled up to the pricker linkage. This is how it looks in place. The burner riser tube is slid over the pricker linkage and screws into the mounting block. A roll of wire gauze guides the pricker and contributes to fuel vapourisation. The jet nipple. Nipple installed in the burner bell. Inner and outer burner caps. I’d to fabricate the inner one, the original being absent. The pump tube was in theory removable. That hexagon nut was however seized on the threads and I’d to unsolder the pump tube. the hexagon component even then wouldn’t budge however, so I resorted to installing a non-return valve removable via the pump tube and made a ‘dummy’ hexagon to resemble the original appearance. This was the priming device … … dipped in alcohol and applied like this Messy, and I wanted to avoid exposure to crumbling asbestos! Accordingly, I constructed a priming cup. Fuelled up, priming commences Ignition. John
Here’s the remnants of the seized pump hexagon and tank boss! The original non-return valve and pump base cap, replaced with a NRV removable via the pump tube and a replacement end cap to screw it into. A final touch, there was no indication on the pricker control wheel of whereabouts in its rotation the pricker has engaged with the jet. I added a brass indicator arrow.
