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PRIMUS Express Spider - Stove: Light - Compact - Safe! Gear News

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With the ExpressSpider, PRIMUS introduces a very lightweight, remote cartridge stove. Weighing under 200g, it has a small pack size, yet is strong enough for big pans. Naturally, it offers the advantage of all remote cartridge stoves: with its low centre of gravity it's very stable. No spilt soup while stirring. Plus, its pre-heating tube makes the ExpressSpider suitable for winter use: the cartridge can even be turned upside down without flaring up. It really is a very safe and stable stove. Typically for PRIMUS, it's manufactured with a premium state-of-the-art finish in materials like stainless steel & brass.

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The major features of the Express Spider are its simplicity and clean design, lightness of weight, and the pre-heating tube. This tube is so important for cold weather use since it ensures that the LPgas is in a truly gaseous state by the time it reaches the burner. LPgas stoves without a pre-heating tube struggle to perform well in wintry conditions.

The burner itself is the same as the Swedes use for their very successful ExpressStove [which is mounted directly onto the cartridge and has been tested and proven many thousands of times]. It delivers high efficiency, which can be further improved by using Primus' unique EtaPower pots. The gas cartridge is connected with a rugged steel flex hose, also a well-proven Primus component. Combined with its strong feet and non-slip potholders, this will be a fits-all stove with a broad range of applications. The ExpressSpider is probably the lightest remote gas cartridge stove on the market with a pre-heater tube. Stable, rugged, small pack size, and with Primus quality it is available from the beginning of 2010.

Output: 7150 BTU/h
Size: 4.7" x 3.3" x 2.2"
Weight: 198g
SRP: £42.00

See more PRIMUS: www.primus.se

STOCKISTS

ABOUT PRIMUS

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The original Primus stove
Two 19th-century fellows, F.W. Lindqvist and J.V. Svensson, began manufacturing kerosene stoves in a little blacksmith's workshop in central Stockholm in March 1892. They named their company J.V. Svensson's Kerosene Stove Factory, and they gave their stove the name Primus.

When the patent had expired and other manufacturers could begin to compete with their own kerosene stoves, they found they had to put up with people referring to their stoves as Primus stoves, too.

Hillary & Tenzing at Mount Everest

After more than a month of trekking and climbing, hauling ten tons of equipment over countless crevasses and across the unexplored, thousand meter high Khumbu Icefall, the expedition set up top camp, one hundred meters below the razor summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. The British expedition under the leadership of John Hunt had steadily fought its way closer to the peak. Each day had been a struggle against the harsh and unpredictable elements. Now its members could actually see the summit, so close yet so far away.

A New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, and a Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay from Nepal, were given the honour of trying to make the top. But they had to break off their first attempt because they simply did not have the strength to make it all the way. Once they had rested up for a couple of days, it was time to try again. It was clear and sunny and it seemed as though they were going to make it. But the weather suddenly changed to a lashing storm that made it impossible to see the attempt through.

Primus was here

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Hillary and Tenzing, and Primus
On May 29, 1953 Hillary and Tenzing started up the mountain again. This time they succeeded. Now they stood on the roof of the world, at the summit of Mount Everest, 8848 meters above sea level.

Throughout the entire expedition its members had cooked food, made tea, boiled water and lit up the dark nights with Primus stoves and lanterns that worked without problem, regardless of winds or temperatures.


For more information www.primus.se



4 Mar, 2010
Looks brilliant but is it actually available anywhere? I've not found many retailers that have them in.
28 Mar, 2010
Looks like a nifty stove, but what a HORRIBLE banner advert for arachnophobes!

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