Burner Unit, Portable Cooker Mk1, 1943

[Robin Grainger]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Lastly these are some wartime pictures where I found the same style of cooker in use.

Hi Just made 4 repro cooker bases with the oval hole for a friend who is building up a Brit ww2 cooking display. He's pretty good, he cooked a 4 course meal for 42 people at the War & Peace Revival in 2015. A full on brit Mess dinner including port!!!
Regards
Rob

[Jordan Baker]

Found a few other threads via google on these items. Figured they would be of some interest here.

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread...quipment/page3

http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/equipm...1938-a-663538/


Lastly Im almost done the restoration of one of my 6 gallon Insulated Containers. I replaced the inner liner with some stainless steel as I wish to use this as a cooler for living history events. It will look a lot better then a modern red plastic one.

[Ed Storey]

It certainly looks good! Nice work.

[Robert Bergeron]

Awesome work Jordan . As with all your projects.

[derk derin]

Hi Jordan,
I was wondering if at some point when you have time, could you take some pictures of the cooking pot stands that go in front of the Hydra cooker for me with some dimensions so I can reproduce a couple for displaying the cooking pots with the unit. The tank does pressurize but I don’t think I have the brass eggs to ever try and fire it up! I was also happy to finally find a couple of the 6 gallon cooking pots that fit inside the insulated containers. They will display nice with the Hydra cooker when I make the stands. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Regards,Derk

[Jordan Baker]

I’ll try and dig out the stand tomorrow and take some pictures and dimensions. It’s quite heavy duty.

The burner is pretty much the same as your Coleman 500 stove except much larger. But it works on the same principle of using the heat from the raw fuelflame to heat the burner that then vaporizes the fuel going into the burner. I’d suggest let it squirt out then shut off the raw fuel, light it and let it burn off. Then keep repeating the process until the burner it’s vaporizing the fuel in the supply line. Once it’s heated up the flame is quite tame. Until that point you are injecting raw gasoline into a flame. So it’s quite intense. Saying this, use at your own risk and definitely make sure you are well into the open and away from other things like buildings.

[rob love]

A trick I used in the military to start the coleman stove was to preheat the generator tube using a trigger type propane torch. You ran the flame onto the tube for about 10 or 15 seconds, and then turned on the fuel. You immediately had the clean blue flame rather than playing with raw fuel.

The only place this would not work was in the arctic, as the propane would not work below 30°C.