Borde Petrol Stove

Penistone Crag in Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” is usually identified with Ponden Kirk, and the hole is thus the “fairy cave” where Hareton courted the younger Cathy.

I've mentioned Lavazza coffee in a couple of posts here it's brewed in a Lavazza Espresso Pot on a Borde Petrol Stove

I  fired up the stove and took some photo’s this afternoon.
The Borde Stove was created in 1956 by the Swiss inventor Joseph Borde and was later transferred over to Norbert Baader who is still making them by hand. Only a couple hundred are made a year.
I've gathered a kit around it which all fits into an old toffee tin

What comes with the stove is a hinged windshield and pot stand, a wire stabilizer for the stove and a flame adjustment key I've added a cigarette lighter petrol tin, the stove was designed to run off ordinary motor petrol but this has all sorts of additives and burns very sooty, It runs fine on lighter fuel but when the tin is empty I fill it with “Panel Wipe” which is about £12 for 5 litres and use it in several petrol stoves and lanterns,while white gas or Coleman fuel with the rip off price of up to £60 for 5Ltrs. is the same thing "Naptha" (but please do your own reasearch) Next is a cooks gas blow torch (Uuummm! crème brulee) and a gas re-fill that is fillable and fits the torch

To light even if it doesn't need fuel you unscrew the back bolt using the flame rod

and the 3/4 fill if required but this is also to let air into the chamber, here I've had to put it into a mug to photograph, I normally just hold it

then screw the bolt back in, open the star flame adjuster and turn the stove upside down until a drop comes out. Here back in the 1950's you then lit the leaking petrol and waved it about abit until it got hot enough to preheat, but I close the flame adjuster star and with the stove the right way up heat the burner coils with the cooks blow torch, after 30 seconds using the flame adjuster open the star wheel a tiny bit and keep the blow torch on the coils, you can open slowly as the flame gets stronger

very soon you don't need the blow torch as the whole stove is hot enough there’s no chance of picking it up ! that the air inside expands and pushes the petrol out which vaporizes in the hot coils and burns with a satisfying ROAR ! here it’s not yet got up to running temperature,

but putting the windshield round it with a Billy on reflects more heat onto the coils

It’s then you usually have to turn it down a touch by turning the star flame spreader with the adjuster

 

I took the last few photo’s with the flash off and curtains drawn to see the flames but here’s the flash back on to see the adjuster

To turn off you simply screw the adjuster all the way in and allow the stove to cool down, hence the reason for letting air in at the start
They’re affectionately known as :- “ Borde Bombs”
just thought I'd share - cheers all Danny

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Teddy Tours Rear Clouts

I don’t usually do weekends, too many Grockles parking in gate holes and letting their dogs run loose which rightly winds the Joshkins up. The fine weather though tempted me out today so parked in the layby just before Stump Cross Caverns on the Grassington to Patley Bridge road 

and followed the track to Skyreholme

passing the first cup marked rock at the top of Black Hill road

seems rather odd that there’s a dry stone wall built across the top ? but the cups are superb almost like craters

carrying on along the track you're looking down Wharfdale, with heather burning on the slopes of Simons Seat

the track swings left and starts to descend to the fork

with a view to the right

the Joshkin had a flock of sheep rounded up in the field to the left so I didn’t explore that stone but carried on to the fork and through a gate into the field to find the next cup marked rock

stopped for a snicker and an apple here, with my back to the rock out of the bitter wind, I’d put my top layers on but eyes were streaming and dew drop forming 

had a closer view of the heather burn from here

headed back to the left hand fork of the track and continued along towards Eller Edge Nook with the next stones arrowed in red

 looking back down Larnshaw beck 

into the field to the first cup marked stone with a superb circle of cups as well as lots of random ones

then onto the second, with larger cups

back to the track at Eller Edge Nook and followed the fence onto the moor, looking back down the fence

and looking forward

and to the left over Breast Pits

and right to Menwith Hill

a closer look at Echelon

 I got fed up following the endless fence so climbed over and headed in the general direction of the van, you can see the road coming into view, 

 but the rocks had a pull so I followed them round

 the cliff edge just had to be explored

with Simons Seat coming back into view

and lots of Bivy spots showing up 

one of them was really sheltered from the wind, So Teddy set up the Bistro

a drip Lavazza coffee + Barbados cane sugar, Crumpets with Butter and Marmite and a Spanish Roja 

set off back down with a last look at Rear Clouts (I can feel a Bivy coming on here)

 and the electronic Voodoo Garmin spot on for the van, which was out of sight on the way down

 just thought I’d share cheers all Danny

Flint and Steel Fire Lighting

I swapped John (Sticks65) a couple of whetstones for one of his Flint-steels 

 http://sticksblog-sticks.blogspot.com/2011/03/whetstone-trade-with-fellow-blogger.html

which arrived today, Superb ! the house hot water and central heating is via a solid fuel stove in the front room which is lit each time with flint and steel sparks onto char cloth

here’s the steel and a leather pouch it came with (as a nice touch) along with a tinder tin of mine and a piece of flint, there’s squares of char cloth in the lid.The char cloth is made by heating small squares of cotton ( I find an old towel perfect) in a tin with a small hole in an air tight lid, in the fire, as long as there’s smoke which lights coming out off the hole it’s fine when the flame dies right down block the hole ( I use a coin ) and let the tin cool down, resulting in char cloth, which will catch and glow with the smallest spark.

The sparks ( John to correct me , I’ve never done it though it’s job 327 on the list, where doe’s time go ? ) are a result of after forging a high carbon steel, old files are great, it’s heated up to above a point where a magnet will not stick to it for a few minutes, which causes the carbon atoms to flow together and grow it’s then quenched which locks the carbon in large (bits) ? so that a glancing fast strike across a sharp piece of Flint (which is harder) cuts a tiny sliver of Carbon particles off which ignite with the heat of the friction generated, and if you hold a piece of char cloth on top of the flint with a thumb in one hand and the steel between finger and thumb in the other hand and a fast flick passed trying to shave off the tiniest fraction, with practice one will land onto the char cloth and begin to smoulder.Here's John's in action

You can see a Sulphur match waiting on top of the stove. I make these by dipping spills into molten Sulphur,

 which is how it was done since before the Romans, strike anywhere matches only being around the last 100 years or so, but touch the end of a Sulphur match onto the glowing char cloth and you hardly need to blow they light that easy, then you can light candle, Rushlights,
http://teddytourteas.blogspot.com/2011/02/rushlights.html

 pipe etc. with precision, rather than using a birds nest bundle of tinder which is fine out in the woods
http://teddytourteas.blogspot.com/2011/02/teddy-tours-fire-king.html

Back to tonights fire after spark landed on char cloth and sulphur match lit ( in holder only to photograph) you can just see char cloth glowing on hearth, job's a gud un ! thanks Sticks65

cheers all, just thought I'd share Danny

Teddy Tours Dodd Fell

Earby – Thornton – Rylstone – Cracoe – Threshfield – Kilnsey – Kettlewell – Starbotton – Buckden – Hubberholme – Oughtershaw – North gate – Kidhow gate

had to open the road gate at North gate so took photo

opened Kidhow gate and drove through to park by the Pennine Way

looking across the PW to the Lake District

walked along until I found a gully going up in the right direction, which although still frozen, looked an easier climb

looking back down the gully

the views started to open up as I got higher

the Mk1 eyeball could see a white spot above, the camera had to zoom !

the plateau of Dodd Fell is enough to give you webbed feet after splodging across to the Trig point

with views to Penyghent with Pendle Hill in the background

 and looking down Wensleydale 

decided to just have a wine and go back to a dryer more sheltered spot for lunch

set off back down with a last look at the Trig point

back along the PW to the van, turned Garmin Off ! drove back to what I thought was a Lime Kiln on the way up turned Garmin back On ! So it drew a straight line between ??? It does say level disused on the map which on closer inspection it is (but it doe’s look like a kiln)

made a coffee but decided not to cook and made do with a Snicker and a Banana

while watching Morecambe bay light up

drove back down Langstroth Dale and stopped to photograph the Yockenthwaite stone circle at SD 899 794

 http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2602/yockenthwaite.html

 with a final photo of the George Inn at Hubberholme

just thought I’d share cheers all Danny