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Post by ladeda on Nov 18, 2007 7:34:31 GMT 12
Seems it's not only me that enjoys fettling old cookers. It makes picnics and camping much more fun when you have a classic stove to boil the kettle on! Here's a great forum with helpful advice and photo galleries of most of the makes/models of old cookers. www.spiritburner.com/forum/index.phpNow look at that picture with different camera settings... ;D
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Post by ladeda on Nov 18, 2007 7:43:11 GMT 12
Does anyone have a thermette for sale? The BEST way to boil water! I used to have one similar to the one on the left of the pic but it rusted away. (Mine wasn't copper!)
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Post by meandog on Nov 18, 2007 8:24:02 GMT 12
;D I do have one Ladeda I know it was only used once but it is steel and about 40 years old so not sure what condition its in now, I will look it out in the next week. For once I know exactly where it is. LOL.
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Post by OasisNZ on Nov 18, 2007 15:03:31 GMT 12
Hi, my name is OasisNZ, and I'm a fettler... I bought a beauty little stove in the bids at the recycle shop a while back, but when I went to pick it up I was gutted as they hadn't realised that all the bits belonged together, so all I ended up with was the base (I was sooooo upset, so after a bit of grrrrring, they let me have it for a fiver ... I knew my friend Ladeda carried a few spare parts for these stoves, and yesterday she kindly donated me a burner unit. It took a little modifying as it was a male to male thread, and I also had to marry (Maori? ) it all up with a little dish for the pre-burner fluid. Incidentally, the "firsts" from our distilling makes the perfect preheating fuel, one usually uses "meths", which is basically the same stuff as the "firsts" from distilling. Well, after a little fettling this arvo, woohoooooo, I'm cookin' on gas! Oops, still a bit of a leak going on there... I little more fettling, and we are getting there... This pic is a little blurred, but shows the blue flame well... Close up... And here is the little cleaning tools that originally came with the cooker, which we managed to find a couple of days later. There are three of them Ladeda, I'll drop one in next time I'm passing, thanks for the parts, I'm really rapt!!! And totally hooked on fettling... ;D
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Post by meandog on Nov 18, 2007 15:10:01 GMT 12
;D The correct term for those cleaning tools is "pricker" (no being rude at all. LOL)
I also have one of the primus's and I use it to melt my lead scrap. Mine runs on kero.
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Post by OasisNZ on Nov 18, 2007 15:17:13 GMT 12
Cool Capt., let us know the model No. and a few more details at some stage.
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Post by OasisNZ on Nov 18, 2007 15:18:44 GMT 12
Do you need a pricker to be a fettler?
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Post by meandog on Nov 18, 2007 15:28:00 GMT 12
One of my Optimus or Coleman lamps came with a small alloy funnel which has a piece of felt in it and thats a great filter, I use that funnel for all my heating appliances and the "pricker" is hardly needed. ;D ;D
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Post by ladeda on Nov 18, 2007 18:39:10 GMT 12
I need a pricker - my last one broke! Cool, O, the stove looks awesome. Did you tighten it up a bit more when it leaked? Sometimes you need to heat it up a bit before tightening to get a good seal. It's such a shame that they threw out the other parts - makes me want to cry.
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Post by meandog on Nov 18, 2007 18:44:15 GMT 12
Prickers should still be readily available at any sports shops that stock camping equipment. Otherwise a piece of fine guitar string should do it, it would need to be a strong type of wire, fuse wire would be useless.
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Post by ladeda on Nov 18, 2007 19:03:04 GMT 12
My ukulele has nylon strings. O promised me a pricker! Yes please, MD, I would very much like to buy the steel thermette if you have no further use for it and if it is not rusted away in the back of the garage.
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Post by OasisNZ on Nov 18, 2007 21:26:51 GMT 12
I need a pricker - my last one broke! Haha! ;D Ya big girl , my emotion came out as anger, channeled it appropriately of course, just made it very clear how gutted I was after putting such a high bid on an item only to have all the bits that made it special not present. Ladeda, I had to mold some parts out of that great stuff that sets like metal after you knead it, like a putty, have managed to make a decent working unit, and realise where I went wrong in the molding. This amazing putty actually sets around a thread that you squeeze it into, and becomes a nut. The trick is that I am working with rather small fittings, and need to ensure quite a tight seal. A little more fettling is bound to see it right... ;D
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Post by meandog on Nov 19, 2007 9:23:26 GMT 12
Cool Capt., let us know the model No. and a few more details at some stage. Can not find even a brand or model no's. But it still works well.
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Post by OasisNZ on Nov 19, 2007 15:57:59 GMT 12
Nice rustic look there Capt., looks a bit like the first one I ever bought, was amazed that just a little fettling got it cranked into life, it seemed to have had it's day. That's the great thing about these cookers, very little can actually go wrong with them.
Does it have the word primus or optimus on either the fill cap or pressure release valve?
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Post by meandog on Nov 19, 2007 16:03:41 GMT 12
;D I've tucked it up bye-byes again so I will have a look next time I am in the shed. LOL
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Post by meandog on Nov 20, 2007 8:40:55 GMT 12
;D ;D Ah Ha! I have you on this one Oasis, its not a Primus, nor a Optimus. Its a Valor. That's whats on the thumb grip on the filler cap. Check out all Googles stoves for sale up top. LOL.
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Post by OasisNZ on Nov 20, 2007 9:26:35 GMT 12
Valor is one I haven't heard of thus far, Coleman also put out a very similar model. It would be interesting to know who made them first, better do some googling...
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Post by ladeda on Nov 20, 2007 16:34:34 GMT 12
I have a hybrid - the Colemans I have has a Valor burner. Also, the other burner you looked at in my tin of goodies is a Valor.
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Post by ladeda on Nov 20, 2007 16:38:17 GMT 12
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Post by OasisNZ on Nov 20, 2007 16:40:21 GMT 12
Excellent link, thanks Karen...
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