Primus gas conversion for Trangia 25 & 27 Stormcookers

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I was perusing the Primus web site the other day. Like a number of other contributors to this site, I have a Trangia Stormcooker with a Primus gas conversion (together with a tragic collections of Snow Peak, Optimus, MSR stoves) and have often wondered about the heat rating (W/BTU per hour) of the Primus gas burner. I think that I have found it. It looks very much like the Primus EasyFuel. Same burner head, same pre-heating tube and same fuel line and control. If it is, then the rated output of the Primus gas conversion is probably very similar to the Primus EasyFuel and that's 3000W / 10,500 BTU per hour.

If you have a Primus gas conversion, you can check for yourself.

http://www.primus.eu/Templates/Pages/3_ ... ionId=5888 and click on Stoves

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[Franco]

Primus do make the gas and the multi-fuel burner for Trangia, however the multi-fuel is a modified version of their Omni Fuel (according to Primus) , so maybe the gas burner is also slightly different (?)
Franco

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Franco, the Primus (Duo) EasyFuel is a gas-only stove. EasyFuel refers to the fact that it can 'easily' used either screw top catridges, or the older puncture kind (i.e. the Gaz kind). The EasyFuel is not a liquid fuel stove or a multi-fuel stove, it is a dedicated gas stove. If you look at the burner head and pre-heating tube and the fuel line and control knob on the Primus Trangia conversion stove, I think that you will find it identical to the same parts on the Primus EasyFuel. Actually, the only reason that I was searching that out was that I couldn't find the rated heat output of the Primus Trangia conversion gas stove, so I started trawling through the Primus site and found it soon enough. Stove tragic.

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[Franco]

Maybe my post was not that clear.
Primus as well as making the standard gas fuel conversion for the Trangia , the one that looks like the Easy Fuel, also make the Multi Fuel burner called Omni Fuel by Primus.
However the Trangia version of the Omni Fuel is not exactly the same, it has been modified to work with the Trangia.
So it is possible that the standard gas burner is also not exactly the same, but I do not know ...
Franco

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Franco, you could be right. Looks suspiciously like it from the outside though, doesn't it? And yes, I knew that about the Primus Omni Fuel multi-fuel conversion for the Trangia. I had a look at one in Hong Kong, but I have enough stoves, methinks. (I know, one can never really ever have enough stoves!) I have also seen an adaptor that fits an Optimus Nova into a Trangia too. Might make sense if you already owned a Nova, but an expensive option if you don't, especially if buying one in Australia. The Primus Omni Fuel multi-fuel conversion for the Trangia isn't cheap either. I've had my Primus (Easy Fuel-like) gas conversion for ages, so it has been good value. I had to buy a small replacement part for my SVEA 123R last week and ended up deep inside the catalogue bowels of Base Camp in the UK. Their Optimus and Primus spare parts inventory is truly inspirational. I almost expected to find c.1900 parts .. well, almost. You know when you are perusing a catalogue which lists parts for both 123R's and "old' SVEA's, that you are almost in the temple of the stove gods. Amazing.

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