How much stuff can it really take?!
- Hewitt Cheviot Bike (Charlotte)
- Panniers-'great' old set from years gone by... we shall see!
- Kathmandu Lansan Light tent
- Primus Gravity Stove (I can buy petrol in 60ml units right?!)
- Sleeping bag & liner...
- Tikka headtorch
- The best old battered saucepan in the history of camping
- Handlebar turbine electrical charger
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Primus Gravity...
Sometimes things just keep getting better!
About a month ago I bought a new stove to keep me warm and fed through my trip this summer and it came as highly rated and complex piece of kit but with with next to no instructions... problem.
Unwilling to fall into the category of 'all the gear but no idea', I immediately set about using this new thing in the more complex petrol mode; pump petrol bottle a few times, open fuel hose valve, light stove... perhaps not...
We did though get it going well enough to cook up some breakfast sausages that were undeniably tasty, but given the constant bursts of flame up the side of the pan and the hiss and freezing spurt of pressurised petrol over our hands when we managed to disconnect the hose I could tell there was room for improvement!
So YouTube to the rescue! If it weren't for the length, 'TutorialsoneverythingevermadeTube.com' might be more a more fitting name, but it's certainly done the job for me. It turns out:
- 50 pumps into the bottle gets you decent fuel pressure
- Priming these petrol stoves is particularly important (apparently!), so a lick of fuel to warm the inlet before you cook works a treat (no more yellow flames singeing my hands/eyebrows!)
- The fuel bottle/pump/valve unit has an 'on' and 'off' orientation! on...good fuel flow, off...starves the fuel supply, stops the stove and depressurises the hose at the same time. Good burning and no more freezing petrol spurts when disconnecting the hose!
- You don't even need to disconnect the pump/valve! That funny screw mechanism that seemingly had no function actually unscrews the hose from the pump and bottle far more easily than twisting the bulky pump out of the bottle itself....win!
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