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SITE
INDEX
QUICKENING
NEWS
PREPARATIONS
1.
Food
2.
Manna
Meals
3.
Water
4.
Sanitation
5.
Medical,
health
6.
Kerosene heaters and cookers
7.
Lighting
8. Wood
cooking and heating
9. Communi-cations
10. Essential
Tools
11. Home
built items
12.
Electrical; generators
and power
13. War
preparedness
14.
Gardening
SITE
INDEX
Miles Stair's SURVIVAL
SHOP
HOME
RADIATION
INDEX & JET STREAM
PROPHECY
COMMENTARY
BY MILES
BOOKLETS
BY MILES
GUEST
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PHOTO
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INDEX
Miles Stair's
SURVIVAL
SHOP
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Butterfly
#2698 Cook Stove
The Butterfly
#2698 cook stove is perhaps the best stove available
for heavy duty cooking, canning, boiling maple
syrup, baking, etc, with 22 wicks producing 14,000
BTU/hr. At 12.5" high and 14" wide, this is a
large stove! The #2698 has the strength to easily
support a waterbath canner or pressure cooker, and
makes the Alpaca stove look like a feeble toy by
comparison.
[This stove is available
from
St. Paul Mercantile.]
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The
Butterfly #2698 stove comes completely assembled
except for installing the wicks. It is at
this stage that the stove should be inspected and
polished. Normal liquid auto polish should
be applied to all surfaces, inside and out.
All it takes in about 15 minutes, and the pores
of the enamel are filled, the stove will not rust
in storage, nor will spilled food cause any
stains. You can prove to yourself how
important polishing is to metal. Take two
plain nails and apply a coat of polish to one of
them. Put both nails on a fence post or
other exposed location. Within days one
nail will be horribly rusted while the polished
nail is pristine.
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Make a hook on
the end of a thin piece of wire as a wick
installation tool. Fold each wick in half,
slip the fold into the hook, and push the wire up
from the bottom. Grab the wire and pull the
wick up past the top about an inch. Repeat
until all 22 wicks are installed - and too
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See the
raised lips on the inside and outside of the
wick? Those are the guides for trimming the
wicks level. Turn the wick knob to raise
the wicks to their highest position, then pull
them down until they are level in height with the
raised guides. From now on, if the wicks
need trimming they are pulled up a quarter inch
and trimmed level by laying a pair of sturdy
scissors across the two guides. When the
wicks are retracted they will disappear down into
tubes. That is how the stove is shut
off.
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The
Butterfly #2698 is now ready for use. To light
the #2698, remove the red top and the black
catalytic converter, raise the wicks, light them,
then replace the catalytic converter and top
piece. Turn the wick knob to lower the
flame height until the catalytic converter
is, then adjust the flame height to obtain
the heat output you need.
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The photo above
shows a 10" frying pan sitting securely on the sturdy
racks. This is about the smallest pan for this
stove. Other stoves, like the gravity flow
models, can cook meals every day and are very easy to
light and use without burning your dinner. The
#2698 can be used as an every day stove as well, and
for heavy duty cooking and canning this is the best
stove I have ever used.
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Far left,
the Butterfly #2698 heated 4 gallons of water in
a 20 quart stock pot to boiling within 20
minutes. Near left, a crummy folding
Coleman oven has been quickly heated to 300
degrees. Coleman ovens have no insulation, and in
fact have huge gaps between the sides and the
bottom and top plates. The Butterfly #2421 oven is
insulated and vastly superior for actual use as
an oven. The Butterfly #2487, 16 wick stove
is better for use with the #2421 oven.
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Because the
Butterfly #2698 produces 14,000 BTU/hr and has a fuel
tank large enough for 10 to 18 hours of operation, it
can be used for heating a greenhouse, for
example. Just remember that the design of a stove
is for the flame to impact something, so use the stove
properly
if used as a heater.
NOTE: The Butterfly #2698
stove - as well as all other kerosene stoves - should
be broken in by burning in a well ventilated area free
from strong drafts. Let the stove burn for
several hours. That will season the metal and
burn off any protective oil on the catalytic
converter. Then the stove will be ready for use
indoors.
When not in use,
the Butterfly #2698 can be stored in the factory
shipping box, ensuring that it is clean and dust free
when needed. Be sure to store the stove "dry,"
empty of fuel, to avoid any condensation in the fuel
tank. See Stove
Maintenance and Storage.
WARNING: Kerosene stoves
were designed to burn kerosene. DO NOT attempt to
burn gasoline in a kerosene stove! See Kerosene Fuel Primer
for more information.
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