Burner Unit, Portable Cooker Mk1, 1943

[derk derin]

Hi Jordan,
I was wondering if at some point when you have time, could you take some pictures of the cooking pot stands that go in front of the Hydra cooker for me with some dimensions so I can reproduce a couple for displaying the cooking pots with the unit. The tank does pressurize but I don’t think I have the brass eggs to ever try and fire it up! I was also happy to finally find a couple of the 6 gallon cooking pots that fit inside the insulated containers. They will display nice with the Hydra cooker when I make the stands. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Regards,Derk

[Jordan Baker]

I’ll try and dig out the stand tomorrow and take some pictures and dimensions. It’s quite heavy duty.

The burner is pretty much the same as your Coleman 500 stove except much larger. But it works on the same principle of using the heat from the raw fuelflame to heat the burner that then vaporizes the fuel going into the burner. I’d suggest let it squirt out then shut off the raw fuel, light it and let it burn off. Then keep repeating the process until the burner it’s vaporizing the fuel in the supply line. Once it’s heated up the flame is quite tame. Until that point you are injecting raw gasoline into a flame. So it’s quite intense. Saying this, use at your own risk and definitely make sure you are well into the open and away from other things like buildings.

[rob love]

A trick I used in the military to start the coleman stove was to preheat the generator tube using a trigger type propane torch. You ran the flame onto the tube for about 10 or 15 seconds, and then turned on the fuel. You immediately had the clean blue flame rather than playing with raw fuel.

The only place this would not work was in the arctic, as the propane would not work below 30°C.

[Robert Bergeron]

That's a neat trick Rob thanks. I remember seeing grown men cry trying to start those stoves in minus 25 . One time my platoon Warrant threw our tent's stove out of frustration. It did not light any better after that....I used fondue burner alcohol to preheat the burner. Worked magic.

[Jordan Baker]

The angle iron is 1-1/2” wide by 1/8” thick.

[Jordan Baker]

Let me know if you need more

[Bob Carriere]

.... you are in the dog house now.......

Anymore pics of the baby????

Cheers

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Robert Bergeron

I used fondue burner alcohol to preheat the burner.

Sounds like something only officers would have.

[m606paz]

Found this pic.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205206057

[derk derin]

Thank you Jordan for taking the time to measure the stand for me. At some point I’ll have to make some up to display the containers.
I found a couple containers with lids last week and they were made of Stainless steel. The manufacturers were Staybrite, GSW and Fisher & Ludlow.
On Saturday I found another one but this one was a lot thicker body and made of Aluminum, manufactured by GSW which was different. Gotta love variants!
Regards,Derk