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! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Tord <tord_at_mindless.com> wrote: > > 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! It's an 8R which is military green in a square tin... all self contained. All you do is open one valve, keep your hand against the tank (which pulls out slightly) and light the white gas that drips into the priming pan. It can get a little flamey, all right. Scared the heck out of a few college girls who were out on camping dates with me back in the day. LOL > 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! > In most of Europe I went to a dry cleaners and refilled my fuel containers with dry cleaning fluid (naptha). It worked great. In fact, most of the time they'd just give me a refill of my one-liter fuel bottle. Even in France!!! In fact the people and shop keepers of rural France were incredibly hospitable to a lone American riding a Peugeot PX-10 with panniers and modified gears for touring. I kept the sew-ups on though and installed rock-pickers. I still have the bike and it's still relatively high performance. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I once had a scary experience with my 8R. I had just refilled the tank, but was distracted and forgot to tighten the cap, which I think was a special cap for the accessory pump. Shortly after I lighted it, flames started playing around the cap. I got everyone away from it in case it exploded, but it merely whooshed out a jet of flame about a foot long, and then slowly burned out. The gasket in the cap was crisped and useless, but I think I was able to replace that cap with the original cap, which I had with me. At any rate, after that I always carried a spare cap with me as long as I used the 8R, though the only other time I needed it was when a member of one of my trips lost the cap to his stove. Chuck Holst -----Original Message----- It's an 8R which is military green in a square tin... all self contained. All you do is open one valve, keep your hand against the tank (which pulls out slightly) and light the white gas that drips into the priming pan. It can get a little flamey, all right. Scared the heck out of a few college girls who were out on camping dates with me back in the day. LOL __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4933 (20100310) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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