My instruction boocklet says 70% kero 30% unleadfed is best. I do run it with such a mixture, and it runs like hell, no fireball, but yes, it is wind sensitive: a good windscreen is a must (remenber to keep the fuel bottle >OUSIDE the windscreen) Have fun Orsoorso
I just bought the Bulin Tk800 hoping it would run on paraffin. Very smoky and flared a lot but eventually got going. Probably out of practice. Don't like instuction about priming by releasing fuel. Never did this with the old primus. Primed with meths and used a mixture of 50/50 panel wipe and paraffin as recommended in earlier post. Much better results. Just need windshield now.Paraffin I'm using is from our heating oil tank. Not very pleasant starting the siphon.
I have read no account from any owner of your stove that has ever had much success running anything other than naphtha / Coleman fuel or compressed gas. I considered getting a TK800 until finding review after review of people saying the same thing that you mentioned -- difficulties witih burning kerosene. Unfortunately, the sellers who are often from mainland China, "accidentally" advertise these as being able to burn a variety of fuels which they clearly are not. I have come to view any claims from these sellers with great suspicion after I had a different stove component catastrophically fail and burn me over much of my arm. The seller, who I told should cease selling these dangerous devices, continues to sell them without any change or warning in their listings on eBay. This should tell you enough about the ethics and morals of this seller, who by the way, also advertises the TK800 as being able to burn kero and diesel.
As you can see I bought the same stove. I have run it on Panel Wipe 3 and Butane. I have been using Butane recently as you see. The instructions are appallingly poor, but the seller was mis-leadingly stating a multi-fuel capability. The box packaging suggested only white gas and LPG fuels. I have not tried fitting the other jet and trying the stove on paraffin. If you obey the stove instructions then maybe you are over-pumping the stove. I don't know, I have no experience of other kinds of this stove. What do MSR & Optimus advise for their multi-fuels stoves in respect of pumping? Maybe there is not enought metal in the pre-heater tube to vapourise paraffin unless you double prime? I will await your commentary before I venture to try paraffin.
even the website says it can burn kero but the box says gas and white gas. I wont be trying kero in mine.
I have one coming (supposedly) from an Ebay sale. I plan to use white gas in mine. I haven't used butane in a while, but will be soon for another new stove. I would love to use kero in this stove, but I think I will probably not just because I like reliability in a camp/emergency stove
I bought one this summer (very cheap! 8) ) and used it with Aspen4, propane/butane mix and cheapo butane can. It works fine on both bottled gas options, but really blasts on Aspen (or equivalent, like Coleman fuel etc.). Very loud too. So far I haven't tried it on kero/paraffin and probably won't anyway, it works fine for me as is. However, if one is really wanting to try kero in it, how about trying the "Amish" mix of kero with 10 to 20% Coleman? Just a thought . Best regards, Wim
I have one that runs fine on a 50-50 mix of white gas and kero. Strong, blue flame, burner glows red. See here: https://classiccampstoves.com/posts/173954 Yonadav
I see that the body & burner are united by one bolt. It looks like there is the possibility to fit the burner into a Trangia by bending a strip of metal into shape. I have no idea if it is actually possible without messing with the Trangia windscreen in order to pass the fuel line through it.
I tried paraffin, with the other jet. The experience was exactly as those of broad_head & others. Ultra rich spluttery flame turning to a fireball. THERE IS NO WAY THE STOVE CAN BE USED ON PARAFFIN WITH THE 30 JET. Sorry about shouting, but I wanted to warn anyone else not to try. My feeling is that the 30 jet may be for car gasoline. I have a Optimus 8R I usually use with white gas. Use petrol & the flames have yellow tips. Have I made the right assumption that a smaller jet like the one marked 30 would give the required leaner mixture if you wanted to burn car petrol in the TK800? Not that I would want to because it stinks. If the TK800 was for burning paraffin there would be a deeper spirit cup AND a jet even smaller than the extra one they supply. It burns white gas & LPG with much noise, but in perfect safety. You can get the gas ring 200gm push-on canisters remarkably cheaply if you buy the adapter like I did.
Hi Primus, I also have one of these (bought it at Dealextreme, postage included less than €45. There is another one at the moment for $55 or nearby I think). Mine also works very well on Aspen4 or any of the bottled gasses. It is rather clear these were never intended to burn paraffin, if anyone wants a "true" multifuel stove one has to open his wallet a bit further and spend more money (about 3 to 4X the cost for a TK800) to buy a "proper" one. You get what you pay for! To me this is a nice low-budget stove, ideal for the occasional user (I wouldn't take it with me on an Antarctic expedition ). Best regards, Wim (Basically, I bought it because I wanted at least 1 'modern' stove to play with )
Correction: I just found out that the first jet is intended for gasoline, kero and propane. The 2nd jet is intended for diesel (which I would not dream of trying). Yonadav
I tried my TK800 on a cocktail of 30% white gas and 70% kero. Preheating was a bit annoying, but after that it burned fine. When the flame is open it has some yellow tips. With a pot on, the flame is clean blue, and very powerful. It boiled a pot of water faster than my MSR GK. Yonadav
Yonadev: Which jet were you using with the kerosene/white gas mixture: 35 or 30? They really should supply a '26', or 0.26mm jet for burning pure kerosene. However... The spirit cup is too shallow. It needs a thick pad you can soak with meths which will burn longer. I e-mailed Futailong & mentioned the claims of multi fuel capability were invalid without the correct burner jets being supplied. BTW: I thought my stove was damaged in assembly or transit as the burner bell is tilted. Does yours rattle about as well?
I decided to have another look at the TK800 and the use of 'alternative' fuels. The standard test- Swedish mess tin & water. I fitted the '30' jet and decided to try white spirit first. The next image is the flame immediately after removing the mess tin of boiling water. A bit rich looking? The next day I wrapped the steel generator tube with brass wire. That is also taken just after taking the pot off the stove. Here's the interesting part: It is burning 100% paraffin!. This stove retains the extra fibre-glass wick material & would benefit from a 2nd dose of alcohol. I started with just six strokes of the pump on less than a half-filling of paraffin, so it wouldn't fireball. I built pressure gently as the stove heated up. As it comes the stove is flawed, the generator loop isn't close enough to the flames to vapourise paraffin efficiently. I don't think it'd be wise to use paraffin long-term. I have two burner heads. The other has a Trangia adapter and is staying as a white gas/LPG stove.
