$20 Fire Maple “Spark” wind-resistant remote canister stove from NextAdventure

I used one for car camping. The legs seized and were difficult to close. Terrible stove really.

I was in Mesa Verde and far from any source of silicone grease. I’ve used a lot of stoves and have excellent mechanical skills. Just a bad design and quality control IMHO.

I replaced it with a used Primus Omnifuel which isn’t a fair comparison, but it pays to pay for a stove I think.

I still have it and may make a rainy day project of it. I’m pretty much disgusted with it and don’t need the trouble. I have 4 other stoves.

This one was purchased with road trips in mind. I wanted something stable that would handle larger pots while being compact and easy to set up. I have a car travel kitchen that all fits in a tote bag and under a sleeping platform in my RAV4.

Last September we did a 3400 mile loop through the Western US and staying in motels B&B’s and campgrounds.

Interesting. And with the benefit of field observation. that it works.
I don’t think it has an actual pipe or reheat tube over the top, but it does have two other features.
The first is the glowing bright orange burner: that is really hot.
The second feature is the pair of rods going from the burner head down to the solid bottom orange ‘puck’.

We know that a reheat tube is NOT needed with a canister stove if other things are designed properly: I will quote my winter stoves as proof of this. What my stoves have is a ‘Heat Shunt’ running from the flames down to the fuel inlet. The HS provides enough heat to vaporise the incoming liquid fuel.

I suggest that the two rods on the Spark, probably brass, are also acting as heat shunt, conducting heat from the burner head (glowing) down to the fuel inlet. If Karl says it works, then this may be the how or why.

Cheers

Hi Karl

The thing to remember is the difference in boiling points. Kero needs to be taken up to about 200 C to vaporise. Butane boils at 0 C and propane boils below -40 C. Their needs are very different.

Cheers

I use the Fire Maple ‘Spark’ stove for ski mountaineering– it is not that heavy, and it outperforms my other stoves.