Yes, you add some fuel (petrol) to the cup under the burner and light that, the instructions state you fill the cup under the burner just by turning the burner on before lighting, in practice it ends up spraying fuel all over the place, so I fill it with a small syringe first, then light the cup as demonstrated. The burner works really well once warmed up, I made the video originally as I was thinking of selling it via e-bay and thought it would be good for folks to see it working.
Yes I can imagine it would be but Aspen is really expensive and the little stove does eat their way through fuel I find. I'll stick to petrol, well while you can still buy it LOL May be I should convert it to electric with a pile of 18650 batteries LOL
@R2 D2 I have one of these and they dont run very well on kerosine and seem to be quite smokey, they will run but are harder to start and tend not to be anywhere near as good as petrol.
@R2 D2 On petrol they really do work very well, clean burning as well as you can see in that video, although this one does still splutter yellow flames when up to temp and I suspect thats because its using old petrol, fresh stuff burns with a very clean blue flame. Remember you are dealing with pressurised petrol vapour though, I've had mine flame out before now and cover the whole thing in hot liquid petrol which ends up looking quite scary, not something you would want to use indoors !!!!
Many's the time, many's the time... British Army in the 80's & 90's me...
Got one I'm happy
Any ideas when this came out of service because I found one recently in the bin just outside the reme wksp
For how many soldiers can you cook in this stove.
Does it run on petrol
do you pre heat underneath as well ? i thought that was just for the Unmodified cooker
Yes, you add some fuel (petrol) to the cup under the burner and light that, the instructions state you fill the cup under the burner just by turning the burner on before lighting, in practice it ends up spraying fuel all over the place, so I fill it with a small syringe first, then light the cup as demonstrated. The burner works really well once warmed up, I made the video originally as I was thinking of selling it via e-bay and thought it would be good for folks to see it working.
Aspen 4 good for this stove.
Yes I can imagine it would be but Aspen is really expensive and the little stove does eat their way through fuel I find. I'll stick to petrol, well while you can still buy it LOL May be I should convert it to electric with a pile of 18650 batteries LOL
Don't sell it .it's a collector's item a classic
How much are these going for now
E-bay shows anything between 50UKP to 200UKP
@@PhoneVidoes nice I have 2 at home I don't have use for them am from Belize Central America
Diesel ????
The description indicates Petrol
@R2 D2 I have one of these and they dont run very well on kerosine and seem to be quite smokey, they will run but are harder to start and tend not to be anywhere near as good as petrol.
@R2 D2 On petrol they really do work very well, clean burning as well as you can see in that video, although this one does still splutter yellow flames when up to temp and I suspect thats because its using old petrol, fresh stuff burns with a very clean blue flame. Remember you are dealing with pressurised petrol vapour though, I've had mine flame out before now and cover the whole thing in hot liquid petrol which ends up looking quite scary, not something you would want to use indoors !!!!
We always used petrol.