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Optimus Nova Multi-Fuel Stove

Optimus Nova Multi-Fuel Stove

Item # 752658
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Create culinary masterpieces on this award-winning stove wherever you travel.

  • Optimus has been building travel stoves for more than 100 years—and they're still cookin' up new ideas for the backcountry traveler!
  • This multi-fuel, expedition stove gives world-class performance in extreme conditions
  • The unique, quick-priming Nova burner reduces the time it takes from initial startup to full ignition, saving fuel and time
  • Includes a durable, all-aluminum fuel-pump
  • Flip-stop fuel pump purges fuel from the fuel line, eliminating fuel spillage when uncoupling the stove from the bottle
  • Superb flame control, even with diesel; also operates on kerosene/paraffin, white gasoline/petrol, Coleman® fuel and similar fuel types
  • Built-in cleaning needle clears the burner jet from the inside out
  • Turbine-shaped legs fan out from the burner, forming a stable base on which to cook
  • Customized stuff bag included
  • Weight of liquid fuel stove includes only stove and fuel pump

Backpacker Magazine says, ''Four years after winning an Editors' Choice Award (4/01), this stove remains an all-around workhorse.'' - March, 2005. Please note: We may not ship stoves to addresses in Japan or Korea.

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Item 752658

Optimus Nova Multi-Fuel Stove Specs

Specification

Description

Suggested useBackpacking
Weight (without fuel)15.3 ounces
Dimensions5.5 x 2.6 x 2.6 inches
FuelWhite gas/kerosene/jet/auto/diesel
Stove stabilityExcellent
Pot stabilityUA
Ability to simmerExcellent
Average boil time - white gas4.13 minutes
Average boil time - kerosene4.19 minutes
Burn time (pint) - white gas92 minutes
Burn time (pint) - kerosene60 minutes
Water boiled - white gas6.57 liters
Water boiled - kerosene3.6 liters
Ease of operation - white gasGood
Ease of operation - keroseneGood
Cold weather use - white gasGood
Cold weather use - keroseneGood

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