Hey Bernie Dawg: Wonderfully instructive video! I'm kind of a newbie with gas pressure stoves, so your channel is a major help. A few questions if I may: 1. What type of media do you use to get the finish so nice on the burner? 2. Did you use some kind of solvent to clean the interior of the burner of all that gunk and what causes that much accumulation? I really appreciate your work and videos, so thank you for going to all the effort. P.S. I almost forgot to ask: I'm in need of a burner (preferably silent) for an Optimus No. 100 lipstick stove. By chance do you have any for sale? P.S.S. Should I ask these questions in another forum?
@swami15 Technical questions are almost always better answered though email to bd@berniedawg.com. That said, you can find info in the description boxes of most of my videos and I'll give your questions a quick shot right now. #1 - I used glass bead blasting for this burner in the video. www.milessupply.com/product/ballotini-glass-bead-abrasive/ #2 - no solvents, just heat from a torch. Never red. Heat ignites the carbon deposits and turns sludge to ash. Sludge develops from kerosene fuels cooking into sludge in the cooler parts of the burner tubes. Sludge is caused by extended or exclusive use of the burner at low simmers and low pressures, especially with bad fuels. P.S. - None for sale. Go to my stove supply webpage and click on the link to Base-Camp in the UK for the best source of stove parts/burners for vintage Swedish stoves: www.berniedawg.com/stove-part-supplier-links/ P.P.S. - Probably. bd@berniedawg.com Emailing gets you better responses that can include photos. RUclips comments isn't set up for questions of any depth. 👍😎 BD
@johanrubank By “solder” I hope you mean *braze*. Solder is far too low temperature and will melt out of a repair eventually as solders melt temp is about what the burner operates at. ruclips.net/video/4zqCfOmkrcs/видео.html Running the preheater on a burner for too long during preheating can cause overheating of a “dry” (no fuel inside) burner which can cause cracking. It doesn’t take long to preheat one and the preheater device (Quicklighter) should be used carefully. Most of the cracking likely came about through poor stove use and burner overheating with the Quicklighter. These were military stoves and often run by soldiers who had other things on their minds than best stove practices. These are Geniol-made burners. That’s why it’s a Heinze-Geniol stove. Time-wise, it would be unlikely that Optimus was still making burners when these stoves were constructed. Geniol was one of the last EU manufacturers of regulated silents in the traditional pattern. Geniol had lower thresholds for quality control than pre-Katadyn Optimus. Just my 2 cents. BD
Turn the spindle valve all the way to the right (clockwise) to shut off the flow of fuel from the jet hole. Need more help? Send an email to bd@berniedawg.com .
Nice to see a video from you again 😊
Good job Gary. I hope your hands are doing well, Cavry.
There's good days and bad days. I actually shot most of this video in 2022. But, thanks for asking. BD
Welcome black to the best Man who repair any kind of stoves you are a talented man God bless you
Nice work Gary, love how you pay attention to detail. All the best….Cam
Thank you for the content and information.
Short, simple, and to the point 👍🏻
As always, properly done. I always learn from your videos. Thank you.
Hey Bernie Dawg:
Wonderfully instructive video! I'm kind of a newbie with gas pressure stoves, so your channel is a major help.
A few questions if I may:
1. What type of media do you use to get the finish so nice on the burner?
2. Did you use some kind of solvent to clean the interior of the burner of all that gunk and what causes that much accumulation?
I really appreciate your work and videos, so thank you for going to all the effort.
P.S. I almost forgot to ask: I'm in need of a burner (preferably silent) for an Optimus No. 100 lipstick stove. By chance do you have any for sale?
P.S.S. Should I ask these questions in another forum?
@swami15 Technical questions are almost always better answered though email to bd@berniedawg.com. That said, you can find info in the description boxes of most of my videos and I'll give your questions a quick shot right now.
#1 - I used glass bead blasting for this burner in the video. www.milessupply.com/product/ballotini-glass-bead-abrasive/
#2 - no solvents, just heat from a torch. Never red. Heat ignites the carbon deposits and turns sludge to ash. Sludge develops from kerosene fuels cooking into sludge in the cooler parts of the burner tubes. Sludge is caused by extended or exclusive use of the burner at low simmers and low pressures, especially with bad fuels.
P.S. - None for sale. Go to my stove supply webpage and click on the link to Base-Camp in the UK for the best source of stove parts/burners for vintage Swedish stoves: www.berniedawg.com/stove-part-supplier-links/
P.P.S. - Probably. bd@berniedawg.com Emailing gets you better responses that can include photos. RUclips comments isn't set up for questions of any depth. 👍😎 BD
Bernie Dawg:
MOST APPRECIATED!! My learning curve is presently fairly steep and you're accelerating my education.🫡
Amazing how this style of burners has cracs in them! I have soldered 10's of the, all with some crack someware.
Was his a Geniol burner or Optimus?
@johanrubank
By “solder” I hope you mean *braze*. Solder is far too low temperature and will melt out of a repair eventually as solders melt temp is about what the burner operates at. ruclips.net/video/4zqCfOmkrcs/видео.html
Running the preheater on a burner for too long during preheating can cause overheating of a “dry” (no fuel inside) burner which can cause cracking. It doesn’t take long to preheat one and the preheater device (Quicklighter) should be used carefully. Most of the cracking likely came about through poor stove use and burner overheating with the Quicklighter. These were military stoves and often run by soldiers who had other things on their minds than best stove practices.
These are Geniol-made burners. That’s why it’s a Heinze-Geniol stove. Time-wise, it would be unlikely that Optimus was still making burners when these stoves were constructed. Geniol was one of the last EU manufacturers of regulated silents in the traditional pattern. Geniol had lower thresholds for quality control than pre-Katadyn Optimus. Just my 2 cents. BD
My friend, I want help. If the air is trapped in the stove, kerosene comes out of the flame hole. What is the problem?
Turn the spindle valve all the way to the right (clockwise) to shut off the flow of fuel from the jet hole. Need more help? Send an email to bd@berniedawg.com .