Primus Stove - The Most Reliable Camping Stove

By Jan Peter




Efficiency is the main feature of every Primus stove and it is recognized around the globe as the most trusted camping stove, the very first pressurized-burner kerosene stove, developed in 1892 by Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist. Lindqvist is a factory mechanic in Stockholm, Sweden. The stove he produced was based on the design of the hand-held blowtorch. His discovery came when he coated the burner and flipped it upward on the stove rather then outward like a blowtorch.

The same year, Lindqvist started a Kerosene Stove Factory with Johan Viktor Svenson; they establish the J.V. Svenson's Kerosene Stove Manufacturing facility. They made various kinds of model of the stove until in 1889 when they ultimately created the final model for the Primus stove.

Due to the efficiency of Primus stove, it rapidly attained a reputation as the most reliable and tough stove for daily use. It can also carry out its functions even under adverse conditions. Renowned explorers like Ronald Amundsen who performed an expedition to the South Pole and Richard Byrd to the North Pole utilized Primus stoves as their primary cooking gear.

Primus stoves were also used by Mallory on his journey to Mt. Everest. Although a lot of other producers created portable stoves of a similar design, it is generically referred to as a Primus stove, regardless of who developed it.

To be able to light the stove, the user needs to pre-heat the burner assembly using a little amount of alcohol burned through a circular spirit cup which is situated under the burner. As soon as it is heated, it will pressurized the tank by utilizing a small hand pump situated into the tank that forces the kerosene from the tank and increasing it to the ascending pipe until it gets to the pre-heated burner head, then the fuel is heated and vaporized. The heated vapours become the primary component in its function as an all around stove.




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