Monday, July 30, 2012

Primus Stove - The Most Reputable Camping Stove

By Jan Peter




Efficiency is the main feature of every Primus stove and it is acknowledged around the globe as the most trusted camping stove, the first pressurized-burner kerosene stove, created in 1892 by Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist. Lindqvist is a factory mechanic in Stockholm, Sweden. The stove he produced was according to the design of the hand-held blowtorch. His breakthrough came when he covered the burner and turned it upward on the stove rather than outward like a blowtorch.

The same year, Lindqvist started a Kerosene Stove Factory with Johan Viktor Svenson; they build the J.V. Svenson's Kerosene Stove Manufacturing plant. They made various types of model of the stove until in 1889 when they finally created the final model for the Primus stove.

Because of the efficiency of Primus stove, it rapidly attained a reputation as the most reliable and tough stove for daily use. It could also carry out its functions even under adverse conditions. Well-known explorers like Ronald Amundsen who carried out an expedition to the South Pole and Richard Byrd to the North Pole utilized Primus stoves as their main cooking gear.

Primus stoves were also utilized by Mallory on his expedition to Mt. Everest. While a lot of other manufacturers created portable stoves of a comparable design, it's generically referred to as a Primus stove, regardless of who created it.

In order to light the stove, the user needs to pre-heat the burner assembly making use of a small amount of alcohol burned through a circular spirit cup which is located under the burner. Once it's heated, it'll pressurized the tank by using a small hand pump located into the tank that makes the kerosene from the tank and raising it to the ascending pipe till it reaches the pre-heated burner head, then the fuel is heated and vaporized. The heated vapours become the main component in its function as an all around stove.




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