Samoset,

#1. You REALLLY need the small aluminum pump and the mating brass fuel filler cap that comes with it.


With that pump and cap setup do the following to prime & light your SVEA 123:

1. Fill SVEA with white gas but LEAVE SOME AIR SPACE.

2. WITH VALVE CLOSED, replace the pump-mating brass fuel reservoir cap.

3. Place pump on cap and pump about 10 times or until resistance becomes too great to pump.

4. remove pump

5. place SVEA 123 in Sigg Tourist windscreen (or put SVEA pot stand on stove)

6. open valve a little so fuel comes out & collects in depression priming ring around the stem base (DO NOT OVER FILL DEPRESSION PRIMING RING) and CLOSE VALVE. Fuel may hit the botom of your flame spreader "cup". No problem.

7. light gas in ring

8. JUST BEFORE gas in ring burns too low open valve to start stove.

It's easy> PUMP, FILL PRIMING RING, LIGHT PRIMER GAS, OPEN VALVE & PRIMING FLAME LIGHTS STOVE

Eric

BTW, Buy a few extra flame spreader "cups" as they can come loose & get lost. (Don't ask me how I know this.)
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