[Paddlewise] Your ancient Optimus

From: Tord <tord_at_mindless.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:58:05 -0500
Craig,

Sounds like the one I had problem with!

Little red unit with a few valves that you set for priming
and the you lighted it up! I caught fire once, but had my
Helly Hansen gloves on so just slip them off and push
your hands into the snow, for a long, long time!

Have managed to get my MSRs to run with just kerosene,
but a little Zippo fuel always helps :-)! Just let a little kerosene
assemble in the cup, then add a little Zippo to make it easier
to light, and then wait till the sound changes :-)! Open the throttle
and Voila!

Zippo fuel is probably white spirits, but here you can only
buy it in very small cans, say 1/16 of a gallon?! So just too
expensive to use as main fuel!

Tord

PS Entire operating systems were crammed into 16K of memory,
in the days of CP/M and similar OS's from my youth!

Loved CP/M 3.0, by the way!
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