Catalogs – BernieDawg Stove Lab

i.materialise Stops Bronze Infused Steel Printing – Kills BD Caps after March 28, 2025

Ralph — Sat, 17 May 2025 16:22:09 +0000

YUP. The storefront is now dead and gone at i.materialise. Thursday, May 29th, 2025.

Hi folks
If you want to buy a BD silent damper cap for your modern or vintage stove. Now is the time. You have a deadline of 28/5/2025 (May 28th, 2025) to place that order.

https://i.materialise.com/en/shop/designer/gary-adams

Cap instructions: https://www.berniedawg.com/berniedawg-silent-damper-cap-instructions/

Here is why.
I received this email on 16/5/2025:

Will there be more caps sometime in the future from some other outlet? Maybe or maybe not. I ain’t getting any younger and the logistics of setting up another source are daunting. So! If you want one, NOW is the time to act. Sorry this is this way. Dumb that I get less than two weeks notice and have to pass that on to you. Out of my control however. Still, I’m so sorry it should be that way.

Link again: https://i.materialise.com/en/shop/designer/gary-adams
BD

1949 Clayton & Lambert Catalog – Blowtorches & Furnaces

Ralph — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:08:58 +0000

Here is the complete catalog as a high quality pdf of about 16.9MB in size.
C & L Catalog G – 1949

Here are the individual pages as smaller jpgs of about 500KB each.

1929 French Primus Stove Catalog

Ralph — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:29:10 +0000

Here is a French Primus stove catalog from 1929. The first file link below can be clicked on and downloaded for the high resolution PDF.

1929 French Primus Catalog-compressed

Or, you can read the jpg pages below. If you click on a jpg image it’ll enlarge to a more readable size.

Primus Stove, Lantern and Appliance Dating Chart

Ralph — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 20:24:28 +0000

Primus paraffin stoves, lanterns and blow lamps (blowtorches) are stamped with a letter code starting in 1911. The letter code can be found on the bottom of the tanks of these liquid fuel pressure appliances. The letters Q and AQ are not used in the coding system. Starting in 1955, the code method changed and a six-digit code was used. The last two digits of the six-digit code correspond to the year of production. The six-digit code can often be found on the leg of the stove or on the burner riser of the stove. Toward the end of the last years of Primus production, the code was no longer stamped on the stove but was found on the carton the stove shipped in.
There is often an additional number or letter stamped on the tank. It is unclear what this was for, but it is possible it was a production line identifier, or lot batch number.

Primus is the only liquid-fueled pressure appliance company of which I am aware that dated their offerings with a date code. Other manufacturers appliances must be dated by examining the features of the appliance and comparing them to catalog drawings, photos, illustrations and known dated appliances of the type.

You are welcome to freely copy and distribute this dating chart, link to the dating chart, or link to this webpage. Click on the chart or the photos below for larger and higher resolution images. While I made this chart from scratch, I am not the originator of the chart. For the record, I only published my homemade chart here after I saw that the original chart (found on a popular and well-known social discussion forum requiring a membership and/or subscription fee) has been published in full resolution far and wide all over Pinterest. So, the horse has already escaped the barn. I do not believe knowledge should be held ransom behind a subscription fee. Apparently a lot of Pinterest users agree, and you should agree, too.

Here are some examples:

1920 Primus #100 Stove – marked “J”

1936 Primus #100 Stove – marked “AA”

1946 Primus #71 Stove – marked “AK”

Optimus 8R Manual

Ralph — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 03:52:42 +0000

PDF copy for better resolution: Manual_Optimus_8R

Coleman Stove Instructions

Ralph — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:14:13 +0000

Here is a collection of Coleman documents and instructions I either have in my possession, was gifted by other stove collectors, or that I have personally collected. I’ll add more from time to time as I process and scan other documents on Coleman stoves. I hope that it helps some of you who are looking for information on these old vintage rarities. The really good images are the larger PDFs. Just click on the hyper-linked document name to download the PDF. Or, for those with limited bandwidth, click on the screen-readable JPGs for faster, but less detailed, viewing.

1945 Coleman 457 Handy Gas Plant Instructions Full-size 300 dpi PDF 2.7MB
smaller 72 dpi JPG 314KB smaller 72 dpi JPG 383KB

Coleman 348 Marine Alcohol Stove Instructions 3.3MB
smaller 72dpi JPG 234KB smaller 72dpi JPG 328KB

Coleman 419 Stove Instructions 28.8MB
smaller 72dpi JPG 616KB smaller 72dpi JPG 657KB

Coleman 500 Stove Instruction Sheet 25MB
smaller 72dpi JPG 495KB smaller 72dpi JPG 572KB

Coleman 500 Stove Manual 11.4MB
smaller 72dpi JPG 296KB smaller 72dpi JPG 320KB

Coleman 511A700 cat heater exploded diagram 557KB
smaller 72dpi JPG 354KB

Primus Leaflet 1222 in French

Ralph — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:51:55 +0000

1920’s-ish, Click on an image to see it bigger, contact me for better resolution images