stoves & new stove

[mark ward]

I have an old (litely used) Coleman feather dual fuel, but still have an interest in seeing what is new, when I go to the hiking store's. I'm hoping that by next yr. the Universal will also burn OLD Engine oil, and mini Logs. LOL

--- On Mon, 4/8/13, Ron Criswell wrote: From: Ron Criswell Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] stoves & NEW stove To: "mark ward" Cc: "John Biccum" , "List KLR" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Date: Monday, April 8, 2013, 5:34 PM I had a cheepy Svea copy made in Taiwan once. One of the best camp stoves I ever had. Simple and reliable. Criswell Sent from my iPhone On Apr 8, 2013, at 11:01 AM, mark ward wrote: > MSR Now (2013) has a new UNIVERSAL Stove, Besides better stronger legs.... > > It not "ONLY" (said lightly) burns White, or unleaded gas, kerosene, and Diesel, It now also will use the common CANNISTER fuel. (juust change a couple of included parts. > > AND because each fuel NEEDS a different AIR/FUEL Mixture it comes with a 2cent mod. > > Kidding it has a sleeve to ADJUST THE AIR to fuel mixture for a better burn. > > --- On Thu, 3/14/13, John Biccum wrote: > > From: John Biccum > Subject: RE: [DSN_KLR650] stoves > To: "'mark ward'" > Cc: "'List KLR'" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> > Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 3:23 PM > > > > I ve been through a few stoves for camping off the bike. > > I ve used a penny stove that burned alcohol. It was OK but had it challenges in windy conditions and at higher elevations. I switched to a MSR WhisperLight stove for a couple of years. It worked well at high output settings but wouldn t simmer very well. But the stove burned only white gas and I grew tired of hunting down and purchasing a gallon of white gas only to give most of the gallon away since I didn t have room on the bike to carry it. AFAIK, REI is the only place to buy white gas by the quart and I m not typically camping near any REI stores. > > I finally settled on a MSR Dragonfly stove. This stove packs as small and light as the WhisperLight but the Dragonfly burns most any fuel: white gas, unleaded gasoline, diesel etc. I typically start a camping trip with white gas in the fuel bottle and when that runs out I use unleaded direct from the bike s (Pingel manual) petcock. The DragonFly simmers very well; it will maintain a rolling boil for hours if that is what you want. This stove has just one flaw and that it is very, very loud. At full blast is sounds much like a table-top jet engine, not too surprising since it functions very much like a tiny jet engine. > > Another alternative might be the WhisperLight International stove. It is multi-fuel like the DragonFly but like the regular WhisperLight does not simmer very well. But if all you plan on doing is boiling water for rehydrating food it should be fine. > > From: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mark ward > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 06:22 > To: KLR650 list; eddie > Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] stoves > > Hey Eddie > > I tried the "earthlink.net" and it failed > > --- On Thu, 3/14/13, eddie > wrote: > > From: eddie > > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] stoves > To: "KLR650 list" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > > Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 11:43 AM > > I've made the soda can alcohol stoves and they do okay as long as it's not windy. > > For a hobby, I search eBay from time to time to try and find a used Svea 123 or 123R, > Optimus 99 or Optimus 8R stove. If all the parts are there, it's not hard at all to bring even a crappy one > back to life and into usable condition. A new Svea 123R isn't made in Sweden any more & costs around $100. > I've found a "real" one for $25-$30 and have a perfectly good camp stove in a few hours of cleaning. > They burn Coleman fuel and are dead reliable in most any conditions you will encounter on a bike trip. > They make huge amounts of heat for their size and are great converation pieces, too. =) > > If anyone's interested in a before/after photo, holler off list at edgyver40@... > > -eddie > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > ---------- > > > ---------- > > > ---------- > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]