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Sigg Firejet Stove
Clogged Nipples!!
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I have had a lot of trouble finding replacement nipples for the above stove. Once the nipples are clogged the stove is obviously only so much spare metal. I have had some great service from this stove in Scotland, France, Switzerland and out picnicking with the wife. Could you suggest anywhere that can supply these vital parts?.

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chris.
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if you cant clean them out with a pricker, wire needle if havent got one then pull one wire out of a wire brush, and you need new jets then you are going to need to go on the hunt

base camp in littlehampton are specialist people for any fuel lantern or stove, and i mean any, try there

sigg are imported by burton mc call, but stove hasnt been made for a time so you will be lucky
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What's blocking the nozzle?

If it's carbon build-up, you could try an engine de-coking fluid to see if it will shift it.

Other than that, as gearboy says, I'm afraid spares are pretty much non-existent.
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just clean 'em! use a pricker, as said above, a peice of brake cable, a steel nidlle,

floss wire, tooth brush... allmost any thing that is thin, stiff, and handy...

i use the original components, exept the leather parts, on my stove, and so did the previous owner, and so on... and my stove is about 40 yers old , a "Juwel 17", and that's a stove, i could p**s in the tank and stil light it up! just jokeing!

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I have a small needle pinned inside my sigg case for cleaning or wrap thin wire around the bottom. I've had my stove for about 7/8 years and it's been great. Just keep the thing clean after camping trips.
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Congratulations if you've had good service from this contraption, but mine was the worst gear buy I ever made. Three speeds -- sputter, weld and go out -- horrible to light (people on campsites used to gather to watch the performance, from a safe distance) and drank petrol. My advice is to get a new stove -- anything would be good by comparison.
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> Three speeds -- sputter, weld and go out

You forgot fourth gear: enormous fireball when carburation failed...

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Add my name to the Guy Hurst/captain paranoia club. I've had this sigg stove for about ten years and nine of those ten years have been spent cleaning it out and fighting with it (and losing). I've used it only with coleman fuel, having given up on petrol cos it soots it up straight away. If you get the priming exactly right it'll burn beautifully - re-lighting while it's still hot it'll still work great... but the afore-mentioned glowing success only occurs once every five or six times - the next time it has to be re-primed it soots up immediately and needs an overhaul. As said above, the supplied "pricker" is for cleaning out the jet, but life is short and I'd rather just drink cold water than have to clean out the jet three times for each cup of tea achieved. Plus you can't look at the scenery while you're fettling with little bits of useless metal.I'm going for a coleman or MSR. Desperately trying to get opinions as to whether they're altogether better or whether piddling about with a "pricker" is a fact of life for multi-fuel stoves.
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Just found this forum. I managed a spectacular fireball last week as the fuel feed line on my Sigg Firejet 350 gave up the ghost spraying petrol over an already lit stove. Quick action saved the day by turning off the valve and smothering the fire with my coat. What I need now is a new fuel feed line, hairs for the backs of my hands and of course a new coat!. Does anyone have any idea where I can get a fuel feed line or better still can someone recommend a lightweigt petrol stove to replace the Sigg.

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I replaced my Firejet with a Primus Himalya Multifuel and it's given very good service -- although I seldom use it now cos I've got the lightweight bug and prefer a Vargo Jet-Ti gas stove for short trips and, now having a family, seldom get to go on longer or overseas jaunts.

But the Primus stove does just what it should -- lights properly after priming, burns petrol, Coleman fuel and paraffin without clogging up, allows reasonable of flame strength and is easy to maintain. It also burns gas cartridges pretty well, which is a bonus.

Altogether a different beast to the fiendish Sigg...


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