Great stove. Apex 1, 2 and exponent version. Your burner looks heavily modified. Pot stand, burner heat shield has holes in it, I follow instructions. Pump 50 times. Open valve on the stove all the way. Then light a match and open the main valve. Takes a minute and flames will turn blue. Once blue add 20 pumps. I still have severe new in the box still.
Amazing how those instructions, written by the engineers who designed it, work, isn't it? haha! They even print them on the stoves and bottles. I don't get it. But you can't argue with what this one's been through.
I just got my hands on this stove. I went out to try it today after fixing the pump last night (a bit of oil was all it needed), but when I added fuel to the bottle it started leaking in 3 places. 1: around the neck of the bottle, 2: around the fuel adjustment screw on the pump itself and 3: the metal braided fuel line. any advice how to fix this? Thank you
there is a very thin o-ring that seals the bottle - you probably lost that. I am afraid that these have gotten very old and that some of the rubber-like parts are starting to decompose (o-ring seals as well as the fuel line itself) There is a maintenance kit that you may be able to track down. Make sure you get the one with all the little parts - not just a replacement generator tube.
@@andrewkowalczyk6114 Thank you for the advice sir. You are probably right about the rubber parts starting to decompose. I will try to track down the maintenance kit. Hopefully that will work. Thanks again.
I've had decent luck with viton o-rings for just about everything on these. But not always. For the hose, I replaced the one on my "user" pump with a longer piece of regular reinforced fuel hose. You have to carefully remove the brass crimped ferrule to get it off of the hose barbs. I used a quality zip tie to secure it at the pump. That's not what I recommend. A crimped hose clamp or ferrule is obviously better. Because it's not protected by the braided stainless sheath, I keep a piece of aluminum foil to reflect the heat away from it in operation. At the stove connector end, I used 6 or 7 tight wraps of mechanics lacing wire as a hose clamp. It's worked great for years, I just used it last week and I cooked on it for nearly an hour. Another option for the pump is to use a pump from another stove like an Optimus or Primus that's all metal for greater durabiliity. The Coleman fuel bottle uses threads that are different from the other brands, so you'll need a bottle too. There are a lot of knock-off chinese "multi-fuel stoves" out there now that look to be excellent clones of the original Swedish models. But I cannot speak from personal experience. So that may also be a good economical option to get a pump from. I have no idea how difficult it would be to get parts for them. You can retain the instant lighting by robbing the fuel pickup tube and most importantly, the little elbow that has the fuel pickup orifice in it. If you use the Nova pump, you may lose the bottle flip shutoff feature if you use the Apex fuel pickup. Lots of options out there. All you really need is a bottle to supply pressurized fuel to the Apex locking hose connection. You may have to preheat, but that's not a huge deal. Hope this helps and made sense.
I LOVE the Apex stoves. Good power, reliable as heck, and you can actually cook with them. Great simmerers.
Great stove. Apex 1, 2 and exponent version. Your burner looks heavily modified. Pot stand, burner heat shield has holes in it, I follow instructions. Pump 50 times. Open valve on the stove all the way. Then light a match and open the main valve. Takes a minute and flames will turn blue. Once blue add 20 pumps. I still have severe new in the box still.
Amazing how those instructions, written by the engineers who designed it, work, isn't it? haha! They even print them on the stoves and bottles. I don't get it. But you can't argue with what this one's been through.
just bought one of these the product is for keeps.
I just got my hands on this stove. I went out to try it today after fixing the pump last night (a bit of oil was all it needed), but when I added fuel to the bottle it started leaking in 3 places. 1: around the neck of the bottle, 2: around the fuel adjustment screw on the pump itself and 3: the metal braided fuel line. any advice how to fix this? Thank you
there is a very thin o-ring that seals the bottle - you probably lost that.
I am afraid that these have gotten very old and that some of the rubber-like parts are starting to decompose (o-ring seals as well as the fuel line itself)
There is a maintenance kit that you may be able to track down. Make sure you get the one with all the little parts - not just a replacement generator tube.
@@andrewkowalczyk6114 Thank you for the advice sir. You are probably right about the rubber parts starting to decompose.
I will try to track down the maintenance kit. Hopefully that will work. Thanks again.
@@andrewkowalczyk6114 Thanks for the help! This is some great info. Thank you!
I've had decent luck with viton o-rings for just about everything on these. But not always. For the hose, I replaced the one on my "user" pump with a longer piece of regular reinforced fuel hose. You have to carefully remove the brass crimped ferrule to get it off of the hose barbs. I used a quality zip tie to secure it at the pump. That's not what I recommend. A crimped hose clamp or ferrule is obviously better.
Because it's not protected by the braided stainless sheath, I keep a piece of aluminum foil to reflect the heat away from it in operation. At the stove connector end, I used 6 or 7 tight wraps of mechanics lacing wire as a hose clamp. It's worked great for years, I just used it last week and I cooked on it for nearly an hour.
Another option for the pump is to use a pump from another stove like an Optimus or Primus that's all metal for greater durabiliity. The Coleman fuel bottle uses threads that are different from the other brands, so you'll need a bottle too. There are a lot of knock-off chinese "multi-fuel stoves" out there now that look to be excellent clones of the original Swedish models. But I cannot speak from personal experience. So that may also be a good economical option to get a pump from. I have no idea how difficult it would be to get parts for them.
You can retain the instant lighting by robbing the fuel pickup tube and most importantly, the little elbow that has the fuel pickup orifice in it. If you use the Nova pump, you may lose the bottle flip shutoff feature if you use the Apex fuel pickup. Lots of options out there. All you really need is a bottle to supply pressurized fuel to the Apex locking hose connection. You may have to preheat, but that's not a huge deal.
Hope this helps and made sense.