Best Of

There is a reason it is called a “roarer burner”.  Here, I’m standing about 50 feet away from the patio table where the stove is and I can still hear it plainly…and I’m partially deaf.

I reflowed the solder on the leaking fuel filler neck on my old Optimus No.96 kerosene pressure stove today.  This stove has a “lipstick roarer” burner”.  It was an easy solder job, but then again, I’ve had a lot of experience with soldering.
     I filled up the fount and fired it up.  A few yellow/orange tips to the flame again, but it has not been run in 30+ years…..and then it was mistakenly fueled with white gas…oops.  It’s lucky I still have my eyebrows.  I’ll run a tank or two through it and see if it cleans up the flame.  I also polished it up a bit.  I had to clean the solder mask (India Ink), and rosin solder flux off after the repair, so a Brasso shine it got.
     My larger Optimus No.45 with a silent burner that I was working on last time is working beautifully now as well.  I fired it up earlier today for a few minutes and it was burning a nice clean pretty blue👍🏻.