Canoedogs,
If you are prehaeting your whisperlight in the first photo you are doing it wrong.

When you preheat that stove you open the fuel line (after pumping) just enough to get a tiny amount of fuel in the primer pan which is the little cup under the burner.
You light the fuel and let it burn for as long as it can. After a few minutes you have heated the fuel ine and vaporized the fuel.

Now you can open the valve and allow fuel to the burner. You might be able to get it to light from the priming flame below but you may have to light the burner itself.

When you light the burner, only turn the value open to the point where you go from a blue flame to an orange flame. Back it off until you get a blue flame. After a minute or two you should be able to open the valve 100% and get cooking with a blue flame.

You do not light the burner to prime the stove this will cause you to burn liquid white gas (orange flame)instead of vaporized white gas (blue flame) this will clog the burner with soot and clog your stove.

The flare up in the second photo is the pressure in fuel bottle shooting liquid fuel out of the burner before the stove is properly primed.

By the way in the first photo it looks like you have priming paste; you don't NEED it for that stove. Simply prime the way I described.


Sorry to highjack the thread; yes it would be fun and useful to meet up with ETS friends and play with our gear. You can both learn and teach at a gathering like that.