After seeing Marks vintage stove running and a number of PM's to both Mark and Rainjer over the last couple of weeks, I finally decided to build a fire in the Handy Chef. The generator was completely plugged with carbon, carb cleaner took care of that and a load of sludge came out, I could finally see through it. It also had no tip on the generator, I used a micro drill bit and drilled a hole in the end of the valve rod. A tough one to do since it's about 1/16" in dia. After I got the hole in, I took one of my acetylene torch cleaning tips and cut the end of it off, stuck it in the hole and crimped it. You can use a strand of heavy copper from wire, I didn't have any around. Seemed to work.
This type of stove has a little cup under the end of the generator. You need to put a little fuel in it and light it to pre-heat the system, not real user friendly. I used denatured alcohol, after the pre-heat, it fired right up...sputtered a bit, flooded, went out, flooded again etc......but finally settled down and ran. This is an 84 yr. old stove, so there is lots of life left in some of the stoves and lanterns, don't let them go by the wayside! Thanks for bugging me guys! Doug
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