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27 May 2010
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Before the advent of MSR stoves, I used a Svea 123, ca. 1970. I lost it somewhere along the way, but if I hadn't I'd still be using it.
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These are still available and I have yet to hear a bad word about them.
I would have had one but the multifuel option seemed a good idea at the time
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These are still available and I have yet to hear a bad word about them.
I would have had one but the multifuel option seemed a good idea at the time 
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I haven't seen one for sale in a shop in the States for quite a while, nor seen the spare parts available. You're in Europe, maybe?
Multifuel seems like a very good idea...until you find yourself fiddling around changing jets in the dark, or covering everything with soot just to save a bit on fuel, or even breathing vaporized lead fumes with attendant cumulative cognitive defects (does that explain anything about my posting history?). But I do like having a self-cleaning jet, my choice of fuel bottle capacities, and the option for using the same gasoline I put in the bike.
And there's something oddly satisfying about stripping the thing apart, then putting it back together. But I sure don't feel this way about carburators, or wiring harnesses, or swingarm bearings....
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Ah, warms my heart to see it! Gone up a bit in price since 1970, but probably about the same once adjusted for inflation. For anyone thinking of using this stove in winter or at altitude, buy the add-on pump.
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I always thought of those whisperlights as bullit proof. Shaking needle to keep the crut out of the jet and completely disassemblable (it's a word now).
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Had (the same) Coleman Peak1 for the last 25 years. Do not see the need to go for multifuel if you travel by bike and always have fuel with you.
Works fine, stinks and smokes a bit when lit but super powerful - unlike its rather pathetic Trangia predecessor :  Never gave any hassles, run on all kind of crappy fuel my bikes had to endure and still serves heating coffee water during occasional ESKOM blackouts :  and camping weekends or making hot chocolate after a chilly False Bay dive brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Thanks for all the replies.
I think I should have made it clear though that I am actually travelling by bicycle - pedal powered, so I don't carry around fuel usually. I would only carry it for fuelling a stove...
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