Diesel Camping Stove

sounds smelly and messy to me. We use a Coleman dual fuel stove for years. No Gas-bottle and runs very cheap. I use Shellite only but if stuck I can run it on petrol.
There is always one on e-bay for half the money.

cheers
Reiner

Gday Don,
Don't know anything about diesel stoves, but I'd wonder about how the toast would taste! They come standard in the Kimberley Karavan, so they'd have to be pretty good.

But the outlet hose from the filter is one that I personally never take off.Too easy to introduce a bit of dirt which can stuff up the injector pump. I leave it intact when I change the filter. Diesel stores safely, so I'd keep it in a container, and I think you'd find that the stove will do a lot of cooking on a litre of diesel.

I also don't like storing LPG, so have a Coleman shellite stove. Not sure how much safer shellite is in the back of a Wagon.

Hi donk
My Kimberley Karavan has a diesel cooktop (not a stove as you are looking for) made by Webasto. We rarely cook inside and do not use it a lot. It take a while to get going.

The Webasto unit works on an entirley different concept to the Optima stove. The Optima stoves are rather small and designed for hikers. The Optima Hiker+ would burn for approx. 4.5hours on 1 litre of fuel. Personally I think it would be a bit small for what you need. I do like the range of fuels they run on (Optimus Arctic Fuel, White Gas, Kerosene, Diesel, Jet Fuel).

PeteS

The coleman dual fuels would not solve the problem because if i want it to be available at all times i would need to be carrying fuel for it & i don't think that fuel in the rear would be any safer than the lpg bottle i have at the moment where as i have diesel available at all times

I was wondering if the optimus will run on a number of different fuel types whether a colman dual fuel could be adapted to run on diesel

Regards Don

I have one of these. Lots of "opinions" but no one knows what they are talking about. As is usual around here.
It works great on kerosene, jet fuel, shellite and petrol. On diesel, it takes a little while (3 mins) to get really hot and properly vapourise the diesel oil. So in the mean time you will have black smoke and really draw some attention. It will also stink of diesel during this time. Once it is hot, there is not a lot of odour, and it is very efficient. I.e. 20 ml to boil a litre of water.
Other issue is noise. It sounds like a rocket engine, which is what it is in effect. Compression, combustion and expansion of gas liberating significant heat.
Finally, price, it will cost you at least about $400 depending on exchange rate and how much the retailer wants to rip you off for it. It is a high quality unit made for high altitude mountaineering. Lots of high grade stainless and bronze.
Hope it helps.

As far as gas storage, you will smell the leak well before you reach the lower flamability level. If still concerned, store on roof rack.
When weight is not an issue, gas wins hands down for ease of use and cleanliness.
Shagger