Kolibri (Hummingbird) Stove – from Hungary

Here’s a Kolibri kerosene-burning stove I received from a seller in the stove’s native country of Hungary. Kolibri means “Hummingbird”. It’s an attractive little porcelainized stove with very 1950’s or early ’60’s styling.

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Sadly, while I received two of the original inner caps, no outer cap came with the stove.

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Here are some detail shots of the stoves workings.

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The on-off valve is missing it’s plastic or bakelite handle. This valve does not control flow rate, only whether the fuel is on or off.

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The knob on the front controls the cleaning needle which acts to throttle the stove.

10This ceramic knob pump knob is unlikely to be original. It is probably a cabinet door pull. The original would have been a round black sphere.11 12

The stove was disassembled and cleaned.

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Unthreaded and removed.

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The unique shaped NRV (Non-Return Valve) from the bottom of the pump tube.

As the stove came without a complete set of silent caps, I made a pair of stainless steel outer silent caps to match the inners. The number and size of exit holes and the general shape and size of the outer caps I based on inspections of photos of complete stoves researched from the web.

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The fabricated outer caps worked well. Strong full flame. Note in the photo below that I repaired the chipped porcelain around the pump tube mount with matching white epoxy paint, built up in layers and smooth and polished with ultra-fine abrasives and polish.

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And a nice simmer.22

But, I also liked the performance of the stove with this 3D laser-printed BernieDawg prototype cap.

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