Jim Creighton wrote:

Another source for this stove:

http://stpaulmercantile.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=73&products_id=216

It's a "Butterfly" stove. Made in India, I believe.

• A needle valve just below the burner. This valve is not only good for adjusting the heat (releaving pressure on the tank also works well on that), but also saves you a lot of pumping each time it is to be lit again. One simply shuts off the burner with that valve and keep the pressure in the tank, ready for next start-up (some tanks even have a manometer).
• The other thing is that there is no internal cleaning needle on the shown stove.   The internal needle pushes any deposit out through the jet (nozzle?). This use to be operated by turning this (missing ) valve backwards. Instead you have to use an external cleaning needle which pushes the dirt back into the burner, so it is likely to come back and block the jet soon...
  

Arne

David Tyler wrote:

Is it worth considering the multi-fuel camping stoves that have been widely used during long-term and high-altitude camping for many years? There are some branded models, but this one, made in China, seems to be widely available at reasonable cost. They all claim to run on butane, white gas (pure petrol/gasoline) kerosene and sometimes diesel, with jets of different diameters being interchanged. I wonder whether they will also run on alcohol, if they will run on something as volatile as white gas? The burner would obviously have to be built into some kind of cooker body, and the tank would have to be secured.

[edit] There are some backpackers' fora eg 

http://classiccampstoves.com/threads/brs-8a-multi-fuel.16553/

that report;

• These cheap BRS Chinese-made stoves are low quality, but good enough to see whether you like a multifuel stove, before investing in an MSR, Optimus or Primus.
• They do not burn well on kerosene or diesel
• They will not work with alcohol
• But a mix of alcohol and kerosene works well.
• Apparently Coleman fuel/white gas is pure naphtha, and panel wipe, used by car bodyshops, is also naphtha, much cheaper and the same price as meths.
  
• They are a roarer burner, very fast and very noisy.

The multi fuel stove is what I was referring to when I suggested Trangia.  As it happens Blacks have an offer on the Primus multi fuel stove (£135).... so I've bought one.  It needs mounting somehow, but based on your pot idea I think I can make something work.  The attractive bit for me was the option to use many fuel types.  Of course this may mean that its useless for all fuel types.  Having said that, these seem to have been tested at various altitudes and in various conditions.  So I trial one burner and see how I get on.

Peter

Ha anyone had any experience with these kerosene stoves:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AYA2I50?psc=1

It has been adapted for a swing stove. Sure a two burner setup for a typical gallley stove is possible?

I cannot copy Annie's last post on this because I am working on my phone. I am still a strong advocate of LPG cookers for simplicity, instant hot flame, and the bottles last a very long time. However filling bottles is becoming an issue unless you use the standard 9.5 kg bottle because in New Zealand the move is now to swap a bottle which is very readily available but only for the large 9.5kg bottles. There are only two places in my local area where I can get my 4kg bottles filled, and both are a long way from the water. But unless there are good easy to use meth or kero stoves available which prove reliable in the long term, and the fuel is a reasonable cost, the LPG is the choice of cooking fuel for me.

You can buy a Trangia-type burner quite cheaply on eBay. I have this one - it's good enough for one or two nights out in a bivouac in the Scottish highlands, but I wouldn't want to use it aboard. It will hold 50ml of alcohol, enough for one short cooking session, and its hit-and-miss controllability is acceptable when boiling a kettle or doing a rapid camping meal, but for real cooking? Not really. I think there has to be a tank, either integral or remote, that will hold 1/2 or 1 litre, and there has to be true simmering capability.