[pct-l] old svea

[Devon Taig]

In 1987 I literally burnt my eyebrows off with a Svea and am lucky I didn't
cause more serious injury or start the forest on fire too.  I guess I
should have known this at the time, but you *don't ever *want to fill a
Svea to the brim with white gas as <A> it won't work very well if at all
and <B> it might well explode as it did on me shooting a flaming trail of
compressed gas some 20 feet (at my face). That explosion provided enough
adrenalin though for a good 40-50 miles more on the trail.  I look at the
Svea as being to backpacking stoves what the Edsel was to cars.  Maybe it's
time to upgrade - just saying.

River



On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Thatcher Koch <ironlegs at pacbell.net> wrote:

> i have an old svea 123 which i haven't used in years and i'm thinking of
> using
> on a future hike. should i be worried about the seals failing? thanks.
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