Stove Of The Week: The Borde Stove

Stove of the Week:  The Borde stove

I've been blogging nearly lightweight wintertime capable stoves for the terminal iii weeks (the Coleman Xtreme, the MSR Simmerlite, too the MSR WindPro).  I'll conclude this serial inside a serial on lightweight wintertime stoves alongside this week's post, but I'm going to overstep along to characteristic wintertime capable stoves for a few to a greater extent than weeks, but this is the terminal on lightweight ones. Next calendar week volition characteristic the MSR XGK II (pre shaker jet version).

So to conclude my mini-series on lightweight wintertime capable stoves, this week's stove is the Borde Stove, also called the Borde benzin brenner (Borde gasoline burner).  (ボルドーバーナー)  The Borde stove burns skilful too hot.  Note the color of the tips of the open fire spreader inwards the below photo.  That stove is HOT!


The Borde stove is a diminutive cult classic alongside a rattling loyal next amidst mountaineers. It's compact and, at nearly 8.5 ounces (241g), relatively lightweight.
 


However, alongside abide by to the stove's weight, 2 things should move noted:  1)  There is no integrated pot back upwards too 2) the capacity of the fuel tank is mayhap alone 250 ml -- if that.  As alongside most "white" gasoline type stoves, air infinite must move provided inside the tank inwards fellowship for the stove to piece of job properly.



One should also complaint that in that place is no valve knob on this stove. How too then is it controlled? The "star" burner itself is rotated alongside a command hook. Rotation to the left increases the menses of fuel, to the correct decreases the flow. Unfortunately the master command claw for my stove has been lost somewhere along the way. Fortunately, it is relatively slow to brand a novel command claw from steel wire. Home made command hooks:


Rotating the "star" burner plate assembly alongside a command hook.


Here's a closer await at the "star" burner plate assembly. Note how the assembly is threaded too that the base of operations of the assembly screws into a curt subway scheme direct attached to the coils. It is here, at the indicate where the assembly screws into the coils, that fuel is emitted.



OK, let's larn started shall we? Now, since the Borde is a white gasoline type stove, we'll postulate to prime number (pre-heat) the stove. The directions country that i should opened upwards the valve (by rotating the "star" burner plate assembly to the left), plow the stove upside downwards allowing a modest amount of gasoline to come upwards out, too ignite the gasoline while asset the stove inwards one's hands. Let's see, asset a lighted container of dripping gasoline inwards one's hands. Uh, is it exactly me or does this audio completely nuts? lol. There is a ameliorate way. First we'll postulate the next laid up: a bottle of alcohol, a modest pan, too of class our Borde stove:


Next, we'll undo the plug inwards the halt of the stove too add together white gasoline (Coleman type fuel). We'll too then tighten the plug firmly using the flattened halt of the wire stove holder.


Now, we'll house the trivial pan nether the coils of the stove, fill upwards the pan alongside alcohol, too ignite the alcohol. Since the pan is at an strange angle, it won't concur a lot of alcohol, hence I went ahead too primed the stove twice (aka a double prime).


After double priming, I opened upwards up the burner exactly a flake allowing the right away vaporized gasoline to menses out of the burner. Here, the Borde stove is exactly warming up:

The pot stand upwards I'm using inwards the to a higher house photograph is an aluminum U.S.A. GI loving cup stand. It works, but I by too large wouldn't recommend a GI loving cup represent piece of job alongside the Borde stove. The tiptop of the burner plate should move nearly 3/4" (2 cm) from the bottom of pot y'all are heating. H5N1 GI loving cup stand upwards is only every bit good curt to render the appropriate clearance.

Here, I'm heating H2O for my morn tea.
 
A discussion of caution:  Since the burner is direct attached to the fuel tank, the Borde stove gets hot.  Always alternative upwards or motion the stove yesteryear the wire holder.  It should move noted that the Borde stove has no security devices of whatever form whatsoever.  Overheat this stove, too it volition explode.  Indeed, the nickname of this stove is the Borde Bomb, although about claim that the nickname derives to a greater extent than from the method of priming than the means inwards which the stove operates.  The plug at the base of operations volition sometimes neglect first, but the plug failing kickoff may non e'er happen.  In short, you are the security device.  It is upwards to y'all to plow downwards the stove if it seems to move surging every bit good powerfully.  You must move mindful at all times of how the stove is sounding too performing.

I'm non completely certain when the Borde stove was created.  I've seen several patents taken out yesteryear Josef Borde inwards the 1940's too 1950's.  Somewhere inwards that fourth dimension frame the stove that nosotros know today was developed.  There stimulate got been multiple variants of the stove, including versions where the burner is mounted on tiptop of the tank rather than at the end, but by too large all of the stoves are considered the Borde stove.  
My data is a trivial flake sketchy, but evidently the Borde stove went out of production about fourth dimension inwards the mid 1960's until production was resumed about fourth dimension later on yesteryear Norbert Bader.  Alas, the most electrical current data that I stimulate got is that the aging Mister Bader has discontinued production again, mayhap this fourth dimension for good.

OK, let's goal upwards right away alongside a twain of open fire shots.





Thanks for joining me on about other Adventure inwards Stoving!


HJ


The Borde Stove

What's skilful nearly it
Super high cool factor!  :)
Compact
Extremely unproblematic
Relatively low-cal

What's bad nearly it
Hard to notice
Expensive
No longer inwards production (parts difficult to find, no mill repairs available)
Small capacity tank
No integrated pot support
No security devices.

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