Under Construction!!!
My 1914 Primus No. 100 Stove
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E-Bay Pic: How I received it
I stumbled across this stove on E-Bay searching for something else entirely. I knew nothing about these type of stoves but had found one just like it at a flea market recently. (I did not buy that one) That had made me do a little research which led me to this web site: www.spiritburner.com. There I was able to determine that this stove was probably pretty old, hard to get parts for, but not impossible so thinking the wife might actually like it, I decided to bid on it. There was only one other bidder with three days to go...
On day three I went back to the listing, and was winning at $12.50. Five minutes before auction end, I got the wife to come in and watch me "win". As I was explaining more about the stove, she asked if I was ready in case a sniper placed a last second bid. (I had lost more than one auction to snipers) Realizing I was not, I quickly I opened up a bid window, upped my max bid by $5.00 (with her blessing) and feeling smug went back to explaining about the stove. She actually liked the stove, especially when she saw the pics of one all polished up. Suddenly, at 6 seconds to go, she says, "It changed!, You've been outbid!" I had the mouse on the "Bid Now" button and pressed it at 4seconds expecting my new bid to immediately go through. Another window popped up! Frak! Argggg!!!! As my heart fell, I was frantically trying to hit the CONFIRM BID button. With just 2 seconds showing I hit it. I just knew that I had been sniped AGAIN...
Unbelievably the bid went through and I won!!!!
Ye ha! So what did I win? Well... I went back to the SpiritBurner web site and finally found a date code chart explaining how to date your stove. It seems I have a 1914 (Date code D) Primus No. 100 Paraffin (kerosene) burning stove! Almost 100 years old! Additional pics on the site showed that I was missing a lot of the original pieces to this stove. :-(
Here she is. These are the pics the seller had up on E-Bay
Fig. 1 Tank Bottom |
Fig. 2 Date Code Stamp |
Fig. 3 Beautiful Engraving |
Fig. 4 Fill Cap |
Fig. 5 Missing Pump |
Fig. 6 Air Screw |
I am learning some new terms on the SpiritBurner site. One is the term "fettling" (to fix) I have a lot of fettling to do to make this old stove worthy of display.
Here are the parts I need to get this fully restored: If you have any of these parts email coolerman@globalsoftware-inc.com