Problem with a Kovea Titanium stove
Hope I'm posting this in the right spot - haven't worked out how to respond to the original poster versus one of the respondents. (Can't find it in the FAQs. What have I missed?)
I've checked out discussion on stove problems, but so far no help. I've been using this stove for a couple of years - not many trips in that time, but loved the stove. Then last week on day 1 of a 6 day walk, it stopped working.
It started as normal, worked for a couple of minutes, then the gas cut out. I tried taking it off the cannister & reattaching a few times - eventually worked for another couple of minutes, then stopped. Got an experienced gas stove user to have a look and reattach the cannister - wouldn't work for him either. O ring and washer look fine.
Tried warming the cannister later (though I've used it in much colder conditions) - no help. Tried again the next day - worked again for a couple of minutes, then nothing again.
Fortunately my friend's Jetboil stove worked on my Coleman cannister.
Seems to suggest my gas was okay. The fact that it
does work intermittently suggests to me that gas it's not blocked. Am i wrong about this?
I tried on other days, and a couple of times the stove worked again for a couple of minutes, then cut out again.
This is the first time I couldn't get Kovea gas, and wondered if it was a compatability issue - that seems to be the only difference this trip. But others in the forum don't seem to have had problems with that.
When i got home, i tried my stove on a partly used Kovea cylinder, and it worked perfectly. I only tried it for about 10 minutes - seemed a waste of gas to keep going. But I've got a 7 day trip coming up, and really want to know it'll work!
I am unclear re cleaning the injector "Clean out the injector by blowing through the tiny hole at the front".
Thanks for any thoughts on this.