This is early old Hope Manaslu 121 stove. How old, I don't know. It was bought in Australia. I've cleaned it, and had to do some work on some bad solder repairs, but it has not been polished back to bare brass. I'll let the brass re-patinate. You will note in this photo that I repaired some pretty bad soldering that had resulted in air leaks at both the filler cap boss and the pump. Ultimately (not this photo) I had to take out the pump tube, repair it and put it back in place (but that's a story for later). The round nut at the bottom of the pump shaft screws onto a tapered thread. The windscreen is brass and in two parts that clip together. The feet are steel. The riser tube has a brass gauze at the top end. More to come... -->
This is the rather glorious tin that the stove came in. This is a very light and battered aluminium funnel that came with the stove. A spirit stove featured here, also came in the tin. This is a photo of some of the poor, unsuccessful and also damaging soldering that came with the stove. I will do a separate thread on my repair later. Up and running This is a very good stove, now that it's been fettled. I'd love to find out more about when it was made. Cheers Tony
@Tony Press A fantastic score Tony, well done with re soldering job , the previous work has to be one of the worse soldering work i have seen, it looks like it has been done with a combination of a unclean surface lack of flux and using a soldering iron that's not hot enough. What i like about your repair you have really tidied up the old work with out removing all the access solder, which does not remove any history if anything you have added some more history to the stove, well done there
@Tony Press Very solid looking stove . Great work on the soldering . The tin is a beauty !! Another one saved . Great stuff
It's a storage case I've never seen before. Even the fuel cap is engraved, making this a lovely stove. I was intrigued that this was found in Australia and not Japan.
@Tony Press Great stove and tin! Well done. My much later 121 has ‘905’ stamped into the base. Mike at Base Camp believes this a product code/indentifier and was not aware if this ties into a date reference. Pharael.
@Tony Press Magnificent, Tony. I could visualise that tin being displayed exhibition fashion, on a slowly-rotating turntable, artfully lit and with a draped silk backdrop! So it’s the find your unidentified Japanese spirit stove was bundled with. So pliers/grips must have been used as a matter of course to remove and replace it? It’s a wonder it’s not totally chewed up by now. Still, pump leather washer replacements are surprisingly infrequent I suppose. John
