My Collection Primus Stove, Coleman Lamp and Miners Lamp

Just wanted to share this picture

 

Thanks for posting, Jon. Be careful of keeping them together; they tend to multiply!

 

Welcome Jon, Three nice items.

 

Welcome Jon.
Nice Items.

 

It was snowing this morning so...



...this just had to happen. Reminded me of your collection.


My daft little car stuck on the drive.

 

Very nice. I may make one picture with a few little stirling engines as well !

 

Definitely like to see that!

 

That mine safety lamp sure brings back memories.

 

I will place a picture later, not sure if video’s can be posted but I will try

 

Today I am going to polish up the Primus

 

Have a look at the attached



On the picture notice the steam-powered toy boat

 

Very nice!

 

Start of the cleaning exercise. Not sure what year this was manufactured though

 

Nice engines Jon

Rather partial to an LTD, made one myself though I never actually got it to run ! So I knocked up 'tin can' Stirling engine to put a smile on my lads face (and mine too)

Nice 'pop pop' as well

Have fun

 

Hi Colin, what was the cooker on the left of your photo.... was it a petrol one ?

 

Hi JungleJon, yes, it's an Optimus 111B which runs on petrol and is probably my favourite stove. I often use it to make a cuppa for my wife and I when I get home from work. My other favourite is the Enders 9061D which I have adapted to use a roarer burner.

 

@ColinG

I noticed that in your photo that has the Optimus 111B, the stove’s Pump plunger is sitting proud of the pump shaft. I hope that’s not caused by a leaky NRV. Even though the 111B burner is designed to run on gasoline (B = benzene), the NRV is still a standard Primus-type kerosene NRV. Making sure it is working well will avoid conflagration.

Cheers

Tony

Ps. It’s wise not to use car “petrol”: it will clog your burner.

 

I think B = Benzin which is petrol or gasoline in German and maybe other languages too. You wouldn't want to run your stove - or anything in reality - on benzene (C6H6) which is really nasty stuff...

 

Thanks, Tony and David for your concern re: the pump and possible 'flame events'. I have used the stove quite a few times since getting it and I have been keeping an eye on the pump position. It always stays roughly an inch out from the fully closed position when in use and doesn't move any further. There was another post on CCS I think (might have been CPL?) that mentioned this very same 'problem' so I checked it out. Thankfully there is no sign of fuel escaping past the NRV and I believe the distance it stays out is simply to do with the pressure required to overcome the spring and the fact that the last section of travel of the washer isn't enough to overcome the force needed to push this last bit of compressed air past the NRV... at least that's what I think is going on and I probably didn't explain that very well - there might even be a special term for this phenomenon.

On both my 111s - one petrol and one paraffin - the pump rod stays at the same position and has to be 'helped' past the pot support in order to get the stove to pack away properly. When either stove has been resting overnight, the pumps are fully 'in' but both end up an inch out after use. Oh, and both have new, well oiled leather washers which might be significant.

For now I've been using standard unleaded petrol but I know I'll have to find something more suitable soon. I don't fancy buying Coleman Fuel simply because the cost is phenomenal, but people have spoken here about 'panel wipe' and other potential fuels that don't have messy additives that clog stoves. Any suggestions for readily available (in the highlands of Scotland?) cheap alternatives would be great.

I found some information about filtering unleaded petrol in such a way that it removes the additives but I lost it. I'd be happy giving that a go if anyone knows how this is done. I like doing things myself if I can.

Colin

 

@David Shouksmith

AAAAGGGHHH!!! iPhone auto-spell (I think, or otherwise I was just off with the faeries). Benzin is correct NOT BENZENE!

My apologies to all.

Tony

 

Autocorrect drives me absolutely nuts!

 

Benzin is German, so probably still not correct when it comes to the word that's behind the designayion 'B'. Better than Bensene, though.
I would assume that the B stands for Bensin since it's a Swedish stove.
A 'Z' or an 'S' might not be the whole world, but the words also have different pronunciations.

 

The spelling or pronunciation is neither here nor there compared with the consequences of getting benzene on your skin or inhaling the vapour...

 

TBH, I've never even seen Benzin, Benzene, Bensene or even Bensine for sale anywhere so the liklihood of me using it is extremely remote. For now I'll stick to Unleaded or Coleman Fuel if I have to go that route.

Still keen on researching the filtration of unleaded petrol/gasoline as an alternative to paying through the nose for someone else to do it. Cost is an issue for me and always will be.

Also, it appears that UK unleaded is different from US unleaded in that the US version has slightly more additives than it's UK counterpart... if I understood the information I read correctly!

 

Have you tried naphtha-based panel Wipe or Aspen 4 as an alternate to CF @ColinG ?

 

@ColinG

lots of examples as shown here.

 

@Carlsson

Bensin is firmly implanted in my brain!

Tony

 

Thanks Robbo55 - this is what I found some time ago, thanks for reminding me!

And Spiritburner, I will definitely be looking into panel wipe and Aspen 4, once I do some research.

 

That link shows (fractional?) distillation, not filtration. I expect your home insurers would be very interested to know you were doing that on your property - as would the emergency services, so book them beforehand!!

As Ross suggests, try panel wipe, available from your local(-ish, I suspect) motor factor. Obviously the full-fat, industrial strength, high VOC variety - not the water-based type. It wouldn't be the first time...