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Cheers Ken, Glad you enjoyed your hol, we've spent quite a few holidays in Malta, one of our favourite places. Still working on the fine tuning of the burner but like you say it's a challenge. I joined the Classic camp stove forum to find out more about Turm stoves, can't find much about the...

Cheers Ken, Edd wasn't too impressed with the math work. A lot of trial and error but we're getting there now here's a link to e short vid on you tube, still looking to modify it, we made the tubes from steel for cost reasons but the propper one will be brass or copper tube, we got a better...

Ken, I did note the size of the tubes on the stove site, some of the stoves heaters below the feed pipe and some ran the tube through the burner. Also the holes in the burner head seemed to be about 4/5 mm and around 16 of them. I’ve been searching through to see it I could see the jet size...

Cheers Ken, I like the burn from the stoves you put me onto. I'm going to have a go at knocking one up tomorrow a bit like this , the pre heater will be out side the boiler shell and the wick in the feed tube around some twisted wire. I'll have to figure a way to fit a control valve for the...

Cheers Ken, Just got back from a blast on the bike. I've been checking out the Turm stoves, joined the Classiccamp stoves forum, good info on there. It looks like i've overthought our burner so I'm halfway through drawing one up. I have a jewellers O/A torch that has some really fine nozzles...

Ken, yes that’s what I was trying to achieve, I’ve been playing around with the burner today but my design is wrong. There’s no seal between the reservoir and wick/vaporiser head so the pressure leaks out. I tried changing the wicks for wire wool and that worked better but still boiled off the...

Hello guys, a bit farther forward, haven't had time to sort the burner out yet but that's next. The boiler is almost ready to solder, here's some pix. As always feel free to put me straight if you see anything amiss. Best regards sutty

Cheers Ken, I did see a post somewhere where a guy made a burner from a piece of small bore copper pipe, it was bent in a loop at the end with a jet hole drilled in it pointing back up towards the pipe, there was a wick all the way to the jet hole, to light it he heated 5he end of the pipe...

Yes Ken, makes sense. I watched it for quite a while then i turned the fuel off and took off the top wick plate and vaporiser, the reservoir was empty but hot, i then turned the fuel back on and the meths boiled straight away so it looks like you're right. iI have some fine steel wool I used...

Yes Lloyd, you’re right, the burner I copied had a wick from the bottom reservoir into the top chamber but I couldn’t get that set up to work so I took the wicks out, works better but still not right. Waiting for Ken’s input. Sutty

Lloyd, all by itself, I can’t work out if it’s burning the fuel faster than it can get to the bottom tank or if the tubes that the vapours rise through are too big, I might make some reducing jets to fit in them. sutty

Guys, feel free, We finished the tank and got the burner running, slight mods needed i think it burns well enough but it's flaring, either not enough fuel or too much and I need to reduce the holes in the pillars that feed the vaporising head. Here's a short vid.. regards sutty

Ken, I saw some burners like that on YouTube, they were made from coke cans,

Hello Ken, that was a valve I put on the vent pipe, I didn't want air coming back along the feed pipe to the burner but it wasn't necessary, i'm just going to fit a breather filter to it, the vent. The new tank is coming along, should be done tomorrow, we'll try the burner again then.

Ken, experiences are everything, I’m gagging to pass on over 50 years of experience before I shuffle off. It’s harder to teach than learn ! regards sutty

Cheers Ken, I need to finish the fuel tank and solder up the wick holders on the burner reservoir then we’ll knock up a dummy firebox, we have a strip of copper, we have some slip rolls, regards sutty

Thanks guys, even more to think about now, we were going to put a series of holes around the base of the boiler and have a sliding choke to control airflow. Busy re-making the fuel supply tank now I know it works and Edd is still turning the Phos /bronze bushes up as well as making up the water...

Cheers ken, I'm not sure if the burner is too close to the bottom of the firebox so I think I'm going to raise the boiler up on feet, that will give an air gap all round the base of the boiler, that might improve airflow, not sure what distance the burner should be from the bottom tubes . I...

Lloyd, this might explain it better, the finned discs are heat sinks but the pip didn't get warm at all. regards sutty