A 1928 S29 Primus 1010 Heater with an Alcohol/Spirit Conversion Aluminium reflector, making it a 1010/2 model. Running nicely! Early lever detail Nice not to have a mantle to burn-in! Pricker rod has the brass gauze present, alcohol jet and the ends of the intake tubes have brass restrictor buttons fitted Like most alcohol fuelled beasties, this one has a lot of induction hiss Missing its wire guard but I can forgive it that Alec.
Nice find Alec. I have never heard of Primus making an alcohol version of a heater, so maybe someone has been quite ingenious at some stage. It looks and sounds like it is professionally done.
Looks like it is going well. Now you need a still to feed it the heads.. Joking aside it would be interesting to know how it ended up in the UK with it's draconian duty charges on alcohol - it can't ever have been economical to run
@Nils Stephenson Here you go, a couple of closer photos. The hole in each intake tube measures 4.0mm with the steel rule and Mk1 Eyeball, the vernier says the same give or take a 0.1mm Alec.
Hi @Rangie .. that is a nice heater I like the little lever too ! Do you know why some of the burners have straight tubes and others have curved tubes? Sometimes the curved tubes are longer? Many thanks pb
The straight tubes were used on the first heaters from 1927 and 1928. From 1929 on they had the curved tubes.
Thanks Nils edit : I must try and get mine to function but it’s missing one of the tubes and the tube is curved.. they don’t look easy to make but I should just have a go probably one of those parts that is hard to find like a lot of things
I don't think that they are so hard to make. You need to gind the right pipe, make the threads, screw on, heat and bend. To minimise the risk that the pipe will collapse during bending, you can fill it with fine dry sand. /Francisc
