EISPIRATEN

U. S. Engineer Corp WWI Compass
Made in Berne by Cruchon & Emons



Brass disc in lid acts as mirror when polished...

Are you selling or just showing some great memorabilia?

Is this yours? Did you just aquire it?

DOOD that is SWEEEET!!!!

I dig old compasses.

EnFuego wrote:Are you selling or just showing some great memorabilia?

Not for sale. Just thought it would be interesting to show. Still works except that the 'mirror' isn't shiny enough to reflect the numbers.

is that yours? hand me down?

Zé wrote:is that yours? hand me down?

Someone saw it for sale and bought it as a gift for me. It's a lot heavier than my plastic Suunto A-10.

Pretty cool.

This is my uncle's 1955 model Primus 71L backpacking stove which he gave me shortly before his death in 2003. I took it out of the box recently, and it fired right up. Probably hadn't been used for 30 years. Try that with a modern "white gas" stove.

It's an old fashioned wicking stove. No pumping. You open the valve and warm the stove with your hands (that part totally cracks me up). A bit of fuel comes out and goes in the circular depression around the spindle. You close the valve and light the fuel, and the heat from the small amount of fuel pressurizes the tank. No moving parts except for the valve.

The valve stem is a little banged up, but the stove is in otherwise good shape. Brass isn't the lightest material but it does last. The steel case it comes in is pretty rusty though.

Slideshow of Primus 71L Stove

Simple is good.

Looks like that valve wrench could double as a spork!

lol. Hadn't thought of that one!