Well, I am flummoxed. After thoroughly cleaning my burners, using the Gunk Hydroseal and a lot of muscle, along with adding the recommended fuel conditioner...
Barb, When the burners are burning, are the flames fully blue? If the sleeves do not fit VERY tight in the grooves in the bottom plates, the air/oil mixture...
Barb, Here is a link to Miles Stair's wick shop in the "wickless" section of his web site: http://www.milesstair.com/wickless_stoves_and_ranges.html. He sells...
Hi Barb; Thank you, Marty! Florence kindler wicking is 1 1/4" - an odd size which was a Florence "exclusive." I have them in stock. One thing to try is pure...
Miles, Barb and I have been working on her problems for several months. I found that I had a set of NOS sleeves for her Florence burners. She had said that she...
Norm, Miles, Barb, Sorry your not still figuring this all out. Just a comment on the kindlers. Many of the latter model oil cooking stoves and heaters used...
Hi Norm, Miles & Larry-- Re, the question of 7/8" vs. 1 1/4" kindler tapes for my Florence burners. I'm sorta confused too. When I bought my cottage there were...
Barbara, It would seem as the 7/8 is the correct size if the total height including the edge is about 1". I wish I could help you farther but that kind of...
Larry, A small point here but may have some bearing on this whole situation. As the name implys, the "kindler" does not act a a true wick but only does its...
Barbara, You should have the parts in today's mail. I hope you have time to put them in and let us know..................... Norm ... From: bhanania To:...
Howdy; Florence always used 1 1/4" kindler in their own stoves, BUT during the depression they made burners for other manufacturers of wickless stoves who used...
In calif when the low sulfur 'act' went in place, trucks started lining up outside the state to buy diesel because there was no more sulfur to lube the rotary...
Hello, I am not a collector but a boater. I use kerosene as cooking fuel on a british Taylor cooker http://www.blakes-lavac-taylors.co.uk/taylors_030.htm . I...
Being the pack rat that I am, I need to clean house once in a while. I have decided to sell the very rare Nesco Kerosene heater that I have. My grandmother...
Larry, Have you got any more information as the the model Kero-sun heater your neighbor has? If it's a flame spreader type like an Omni-15 or Moonlighter, I...
anyone need a heater and live in Illinois somewhere close to Winthrop Harbor? Here is a new Perfection on eBay going for 99 cents - new. Copy this link and...
Hey, that's just what I need,but closer to home would be nice! Anyone in southern Ontario on the list? I must say that I find all this information quite...
Hi all, After a long "hunt" today, I came home with this cute little kero heater. I have posted pictures of it under "Sears Heater", in the photo section. What...
Nice heater! Looks like gravity to me, but I am a bit of a newbie. A little scrubbing and some polish you should be enjoying the soft warm heat! Cheers, Matt ...
Debbie, Your cute little sears is a wickless type gravity feed heater. It used a kindler for the wick.. right behind your photo album is the instructions to...
Deb, This is a blue flame heater made in about the 40s to maybe the 60s for Sears. I don't know the mfgr. It does not use a wick as such, but an asbestos tape...
Thank you all! I had looked through the photo section before asking, but kindler wasn't a name I was familiar with, so thank you Larry for posting the...
Deb, Had I read all of my eMail before answering yours, I would have seen that Larry overed most of what I said. I have two of these little stoves and I just...
Well, tearing into it, I of course found all the screws and nuts rusted up, so they are getting a good soak. Looks fairly simple to take apart. Cleaned the top...
Deb, Loosen the packing nut on the valve shaft {right behind the knob} and get as much WD40 around the shaft as it will take, let it set and do it again until...
Desiring to have a bit more kerosene storage and disliking having a bunch of 5 gallon containers around I decided to get a 55 gallon drum. I found what I...
Dan, If I am not mistaken Kerosene by its nature degrades over time while gasoline products do not do so, or if they do its not like kerosene. It has a...
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