Turm Sport Stove

I bought this stove used from a friend in 1971. He bought a brass Svea gas stove. I would usually have finished my meal (usually just a matter of boiling water) before he got the Svea lit. It seems to take no time to boil a half liter of water.

I have used this long discontinued little stove on many backpacking, hiking, and hunting trips, as well as just boiling water for coffee at my picnic table at home over the years without any difficulties.

I took these pictures today and I think the generator needs a rebuilding as it was a bit slow on the boil today.

But it could just be weak (OLD) alcohol as it's several years old.

This little stove is simple. You open it, flip the grates up, release a small amount of alcohol into the pan, light it, and in 15 seconds it's burning a very hot blue flame—no smoke, no soot, a clean burning little stove.

It boils a half liter of water very fast. Like I said in the summary, I purchased it used  from my best friend when a salesman talked him into buying a Svea. I always was finished with my meal by the time he got the Svea lit. 

The stove folds into a neat little four by seven inch (approximate) box that fit perfectly in a side pocket of my pack. I do wish it was still available. Perhaps in titanium alloy, although the brass and steel construction is a bit heavy I have never felt encumbered by the few ounces of additional weight, although I know some are.

I don't do any long trips now days. A couple of days at a time is enough for me.

In 45 years this stove has never failed me. I have even used it to melt lead for casting bullets while I was shooting in pistol competitions. 

I have other stoves but always end up going back to the Turm Sport.

Old school technology that does exactly what it was designed to do.
Minimum moving parts readily accessible fuel.

I inherited mine 43yrs ago it had been in storage for many years before I got it. As a 12-year-old with no instructions or guidance it took 5 minutes to work out how to use it. I cooked (without exaggeration) hundreds of meals with it Scouts, school camps, hunting trips, road trips, as an Army Cadet instructor. I seem to collect camping gear and in retrospect I probably used a lot because it worked perfectly and no one else had ever seen one. It is just as reliable now as it ever was. Mad if you don't grab one if you ever manage to find one. 

Background

I used this through 7 or 8 yrs in Boy Scouts then later on camping and hunting trips. I'll still fire it up if I need a Quick or gentle heat source in the shed (ie not my forge or gas torch)