Hi Had 2 of the guys over on board to sort out my stove, they got it going, but it smells like Kero, we did start it with Metho, but I am thinking that I should be burning Metho, it has a pressure tank, its a Maxie 2 burner with oven ?????????????
PS I have never filled the tank, but it does smell like kero, any suggestions

If it has a pump to pressurize the fuel tank then the stove should be running on Kero!

You do start them with meths, depending on the design.

www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f91/broadwater-mariner-stove-help-needed-13397.html
found this thread so far Lexmark
look and read the least reply hope it helps

Hi nsw Sailor, If thats correct then its all good, couldnt understand why start with metho then burn with Kero. I thought it was a metho stove, but smells kero, but it does have a pressure tank that is pressured with a small (bike type pump) ???????????????

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Hi nsw Sailor, If thats correct then its all good, couldnt understand why start with metho then burn with Kero. I thought it was a metho stove, but smells kero, but it does have a pressure tank that is pressured with a small (bike type pump) ???????????????

Thanks mate
Looks like I am right to go
Stephen

I have a kero stove oven on my boat and it works great. I use a bike pump to pressurize it.
Be sure to get the burners well and truly pre heated with the metho before you turn on the kero or it can flare up. Always use metho to light it if you can because you will find it cleaner and less chance of big flare ups. Check to see if the knobs prick the jets in the burners when you turn them full on. This allows you to clean carbon from the jet, If the jets are dirty it wont burn smoothly nor develop full heat.
I pressurize to appox 75kpa and have found that the amount of kero in the tank changes the time the pressure lasts. When using the oven I have found that heat warms the kero tank and starts sort of a self pressurizing effect.
Remember to release the pressure from the tank when you finish so you don't get kero weeping out of the burners.
Its all very similar to a Tilley Lamp.

Never fill a pressure kero tank more than two thirds full with kero, remember you need to leave that ullage for the pressure to sit.

My my stove is a metho stove. It has two burers and and an oven. It uses a bicycle pump to pressurize the tank. You pressurize, then crack open the selected valve using the knob allowing a small amount of metho flow into the bowl below the jets. Turn off the valv and light the metho in the bowl. Ths heats the metal tube through which the metho flows up to the jets and thereby causing the metho to vaporise. When the flame dies out, ope the valve and light the burner. Viola! An occasional pump with the bike pump keeps the pressure. The bike pump hose screws into a fitting on the stove. So if ths the bicycle pump system to which you refer it may well be a metho stove like mine.

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My my stove is a metho stove. It has two burers and and an oven. It uses a bicycle pump to pressurize the tank. You pressurize, then crack open the selected valve using the knob allowing a small amount of metho flow into the bowl below the jets. Turn off the valv and light the metho in the bowl. Ths heats the metal tube through which the metho flows up to the jets and thereby causing the metho to vaporise. When the flame dies out, ope the valve and light the burner. Viola! An occasional pump with the bike pump keeps the pressure. The bike pump hose screws into a fitting on the stove. So if ths the bicycle pump system to which you refer it may well be a metho stove like mine.

Are you sure this is a metho stove???????????????

HI This is what I am trying to find out, METHO or KERO, I am now a little confused It has on the front MAXIE Australia 2 burners and an oven about an 3lt tank (below stove ) and a bike type pump to increase pressure it also has a pressure gauge on the right front
So What is it Metho or Kero
I belive its a METHO to start ????????????????

Is there any way of contacting the previous owner. Lexmark I could ring him from vic
Some owners change the jets for either on any brand of stove

Somewhere on the stove should be a compliance or rating plate which will possibly have a model number on it. In the interests of peace of mind and safety a phone call to Maxco may be in order to confirm one way or the other.

Maxco Industries Pty Ltd
Unit 20, 7 Loyalty Rd
North Rocks, NSW, 2151
Phone: 02 9683 1255

email: Topstoves@MaxcoIndustries.com

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HI This is what I am trying to find out, METHO or KERO, I am now a little confused It has on the front MAXIE Australia 2 burners and an oven about an 3lt tank (below stove ) and a bike type pump to increase pressure it also has a pressure gauge on the right front
So What is it Metho or Kero
I belive its a METHO to start ????????????????

If your burner is the same as in the first photo above, it is a kero stove.

Kero stoves need the burner pre-heated with metho and then run on kero.

Metho stoves also need pre-heating with metho but I have never seen a pressurized metho stove.

Be very careful with what you are doing there. Using metho instead of kero in a kero stove could be very hazardous.

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Somewhere on the stove should be a compliance or rating plate which will possibly have a model number on it. In the interests of peace of mind and safety a phone call to Maxco may be in order to confirm one way or the other.

Maxco Industries Pty Ltd
Unit 20, 7 Loyalty Rd
North Rocks, NSW, 2151
Phone: 02 9683 1255

email: Topstoves@MaxcoIndustries.com

Hi I believe that the latest contact details are
Phone 9620 7055
Located at 10/45 Powers rd
Seven Hills NSW.
May have changed again but that is how I contacted them when needing a part for my metho stove.
All the best Rob.

Metho if you put some on your finger and blow on it I think it feels cold where as kero will not feel cold

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HI This is what I am trying to find out, METHO or KERO, I am now a little confused It has on the front MAXIE Australia 2 burners and an oven about an 3lt tank (below stove ) and a bike type pump to increase pressure it also has a pressure gauge on the right front
So What is it Metho or Kero
I belive its a METHO to start ????????????????

If your burner is the same as in the first photo above, it is a kero stove.

Kero stoves need the burner pre-heated with metho and then run on kero.

Metho stoves also need pre-heating with metho but I have never seen a pressurized metho stove.

Be very careful with what you are doing there. Using metho instead of kero in a kero stove could be very hazardous.

now you have me thinking ..ive been using metho in my stove and its pressurised.. I just presumed its metho and never thought it might be kerro.. well actually i use my own distilled alchol in the stove so its a mixture of ethanol and methanol.. has worked well so far. im wondering if kerro would burn hotter ot not?

what is the difference. is one more explosive than the others?

HI
What I have found out, after many phone call to Maxie, who have changed hands many times, on the rear of the unit, had KMO, have been advised by Coy, that K= Kero M= Metho and the O does not know, so I am now happy that you start it with Metho and switch to Kero the burn
Thanks to all

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now you have me thinking ..ive been using metho in my stove and its pressurised.. I just presumed its metho and never thought it might be kerro.. well actually i use my own distilled alchol in the stove so its a mixture of ethanol and methanol.. has worked well so far. im wondering if kerro would burn hotter ot not?

what is the difference. is one more explosive than the others?

In the right circumstances they are both explosive, but the major difference is that kerro has a higher flashpoint ie. you need to preheat the burners in order to vapourise the kerro.

I have a lot of experience with both. Have to say kero is far better for cooking and lighting.
But kero stinks, kero cooking and lantern are excellent alternative, ...outdoor....
would not use any in enclosed area.

Metho is compromise, acceptable smell but marginal performance.
I am using little portable camping single burner with cheap gas refill cartridges , happy for any
type of cooking.
I always used gas on boats, small bottles ... big bottles.
Open gas bottle, cook, close bottle when flame was still on.
That means no gas in pipes.
Ones in a while, check for leaks, as simple as brush on , all critical joint and bottle neck
when gas was in..... kitchen washing detergent.
Not sure how does it comply, but cooking and baking on gas is just unbeatable.

after rebuild on old metho nothing reconditioned dismantled and cleaned one burner work spot on the other was a problem . I had a friend who own the same stove. He had a pplay with mine and probally a replacement burner would have done but after I saw thew way it flared up . I stopped. in the back f my mind I wanted a oven and griller but thats my choice is not gas so i went kero . As a child on a farm the kero lamps were plentiful



its ready for physical fitting but wont be ready to light till next year some time to many other projects going right now