Optimus svea stove: First ever start up with the new stove. REVIEW AND START UP.

So I picked the optimus svea stove as my choice of stove for hiking. The main reason is that it's a Swedish stove and I have a history with vintage stoves like the optimus svea stove.
The optimus svea stove is a real nice looking stove and it's known to last for decades when it comes to the quality if this stove. So I hope this will help me a lot on my future adventures and be a long time friend.

[@swedishhiker]

Do you know what part on The stove the middle hole in The key are used for?

[@BernieDawgCinema]

Go here for the answer: www.berniedawg.com/svea-123-or-123r-spindle-key-uses/ 👍😎 BD

[@Thereal111t]

It’s to remove the jet.

[@Thereal111t]

But... you should probably watch Berniedawg’s link...

[@swedishhiker]

@@BernieDawgCinema thanks!

[@swedishhiker]

@@Thereal111t thanks for The input and solution. :)

[@richardsmith9050]

I've been using my svea 123 stove for 49 years. I keep it clean, don't abuse it and have used it in the high arctic, the jungles of Africa, Asia, Central and South America as well as the US and beyond. It's only failing is it's not good in a small tent. Great invention

[@caver6292]

I took one to Iraq (GW1) no facilities, pre-internet, etc...The little SVEA happens to run well with aircraft fuel, which as a pilot I had plenty of... It was perfect to boil some water for a hot cup of coffee/cocoa and to heat up my MRE rations. Really held up well. I still have it and fires up without any problems. I added (back then) the pressure kit and that was a game changer. It cost me around $60 USD and that was money well spent. Thank you for your review.

[@swedishhiker]

Yeah I can belive jetfuel will make this little stove real happy. 😂

[@iconoclastic12007]

I have had one of these for years. It is not lightweight. It is not quiet. It is not compact. It is very difficult to simmer on it, it likes to run at full blast. But it is perfection. It is a small engineering marvel. It is absolutely reliable no matter what fuel you put in it. It will work in any weather or temperature. It is Zen. I bought mine decades ago from a backpacking buddy when we were still young. He know can afford anything he wants. Not too long ago he tried to buy the stove back but it wasn’t for sale, I’m not done with it yet.

[@swedishhiker]

Yeah I Will try to get the most out of this. 😂

[@MaNi-cn7to]

Does it burn good with Bensin/petrol?

[@swedishhiker]

@@MaNi-cn7to well you are adviced to use acrylatbensin (White fuel) because its clean. But I am sure it Will run on normal petrol also.

[@Valhallaaaa]

@@MaNi-cn7to I will help your i think.... Just buy standard natural 95 i saw review where guy is using only that... Makes just a little more mess but cost A LOT LESS . I even wonder why is anyone using that " original " white gas... If you you use your cooking set also on fire theres like 1000x more tar compared to natural 95 + svea and its like real tar after firewood not easy to clean. Thats why i leave it there it works for me and i like that smoky smell... Gasoline/natural 95 must be easy to clean i think... Anyway everyone could try and choose... I will choose cheap way when i will buy mine stove...

[@Valhallaaaa]

@@MaNi-cn7to BTW yes it is burning same with car fuel.... Here kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3_Ngp55mtqlnrc is cleaning with steel wool (later used for fire starting) after some time of use natural 95 thats All few moves and you pay like 5x less for fuel?! + Shipping!!! i Guess one have to order it on internet its not everywhere.... Here usual shipping is like 3-5€ thats like 2,5-4,16 liters of natural 95 just for shipping!!

[@alexmacdonald258]

Aren't they great? I've carried either this one, or an Optimus 8R, climbing on 4 continents. It's sound is complete nostalgia for me, like a wood shaft ice axe. You won't ever be disappointed in it.

[@swedishhiker]

Yeah i love it. Love the sound. Love the priming to start it. People complain mostly that its to heavy. But it dont bother me.

[@ashab1]

I used to carry the larger version with pump from 2000 until 2005 I used it for long fishing trips, mine was from around the 1950’s I believe the tin had printed instructions inside with the picture of a very old car a neighbour gave it to me. It worked perfectly every time I much preferred it over the Coleman 533, I have just bought another Coleman, and I am considering buying one of these I may buy an original how is the build quality of these new ones? They are made in china?

[@jefftuttle7890]

Love this stove. Incredible design that stands the test of time. Thanks for sharing and take care.

[@swedishhiker]

Thanks for taking the time to watch!

[@OutsideChronicles]

Great demonstration, I want to get one of these stoves as an emergency winter stove. Thanks for sharing.

[@filmic1]

Neat.... I bought my SVEA123 (you have the SVEA123R, I believe.) back in 1972 or '73 and with some minor service (graphite packing in the control valve) it works just fine.

[@swedishhiker]

Yeah I have the new production. But I am thinking about geting a swedish one from back in the days. They are tanks and just keeps going. 😁

[@w.loczykij5354]

So finally i know how to pronounce SveA. Thanks!

[@43Lugan]

The Snowpeak titanium Soloist cookset fits this stove perfectly.

[@agaig9812]

Great video! I picked up one of these at a flea market. Haven't used it yet. Now I will!!

[@swedishhiker]

Yeah give it a go. They are lots of fun. 😁

[@rodneyshepherd9120]

Move the control key so that it is attached to the windshield; still secure and no longer fidly and in the way! 🤔🤣👍

[@swedishhiker]

That might do the trick! 😁

[@normm7764]

Great stove and good video - thanks. If you get bitten by the stove bug (there are worse things!) have a look at the Trangia Storm Cooker Nos. 25 & 27. Great system also!

[@dopeoplereally3972]

This video is delightful

[@davidsawmandave8731]

Nice video great presentation of it , u cracked me up talking about the stove being fiddly , I now want one , I love stoves as well

[@Saltfly]

These stoves are pretty cool. They make a little racket but nothing like an optimus Polaris. Or an omnilite Ti. They are crazy noisy. I attached my tool/adjustment piece to the outside of the windscreen. Much less fiddly. Good luck with it.

[@CherokeeTwilight]

You can pressurize the stove by just holding it, the heat from your hands will build enough pressure to prime it. I open the valve slightly, then grasp fuel tank and cup it, you will see fuel emit from burner opening. Open valve a little more until it runs down a little and fills fuel well beneath the valve. Turn valve off completely. Light fuel that has collected into well. Before it dies completely slowly open valve to ignite.

[@Romin.777]

I used a Optimus 8R Hunter for over two decades. Switched to Trangia but i missed my old stove and just now i bought a second hand Svea, can't wait to get it delivered. :))

[@bahaaabozid]

I like your video, thanks

[@swedishhiker]

Thanks for watching!

[@thegrinch77]

That rooster has perfect timing! :D Instantly pressed the like button as it was crowing! Besides from that, the review was perfect and inspiring - thank you! Just ordered the Svea, and I'm looking forward to more great contents on this channel. Subscribed!

[@rickkaylor8554]

Nice video. This was my first backpacking stove that I got around 1978. It cost about $25 back then. It was always fun to use but in my opinion was too much work. I always thought it was a bit bulky, spit and sputtered (even when primed or using a pump), is loud and smelled bad. I now use either a canister stove or on occasion an alcohol stove. This stove is now selling for over $100. You can get an excellent new canister stove for around $15.

[@gunterbecker8528]

Not worth the trouble ,had one and got rid of it

[@sandsock]

I have 2 of them, a old slant valve and the current model. Its ok to Frankenstein your 123r model. Pull the pricker out, when you get tired of losing the klick count. Its 2 or3 depending on each stove. Then find a pricker at a auction site. That pressure cap screw it all the way down, to just snug. If you have the stove burning. It is impossible to blow it up, because your always releasing pressure. I generally warm it with my hands, but you can wrap some lamp wick around the stem and tie it in with some thin wire. Then a drop of fuel heats it better.

[@Mykelfromtexas]

The stove if taken care of will out live you.

[@andrewhyduke1974]

I agree. Purchased mine in 1971 and it looks better than I do!!! Rainmaker ☔

[@simon4043]

Turn the key clockwise to turn the flame down. Turning it anti-clockwise raises the pin which clears the jet hole

[@XJarhead360]

The rooster crowing was great.

[@markwalker4485]

I know I’m late. You can lighten the old locomotive using a Snow Peak Solo. She fits very well and the Solo is titanium and bigger. I have used mine sine the 70s and even when I was in the military for 10 years. But I really only use her to build water for condensed rations or hiking food. Or the very off can of soup or stew

[@niclasjacobsson5432]

Love your swedish- english pronounce. :-) I am a swedish camper but haven´t use this anytime in my 57 years iife yet. Its mostly trangia but now I must try it. Petrol is easier than "T-röd" to get abroad. By the way, have you tried a "karbidlampa". I think you haved liked it!

[@dwaynestewart6095]

i REALLY LOVE that stove and i want one really bad and as soon as i het the money saved i will have one Dwayne

[@swedishhiker]

Yeah I love this. Are there better stoves out there? I am sure. But this have style and I love it. :)

[@johnkiljan7441]

I have a lot of experience with these types of self-pressurized stoves, putting gallons of leaded gasoline through my own very similar Optimus 80 while travelling in third-world countries where automotive gasoline was the only fuel available. I've been able to get mine to light and cook meals for me in the hottest and coldest temperatures and in the strongest winds. I think they are a marvel of Swedish engineering engineering simplicity. I'm sorry to see this stove and its cousins are not made in Sweden any more. I gave a friend a cheap Taiwan copy of a 123 decades ago and he said it blew up on him when it got too hot and the safety valve failed to release shooting the generator stem into the sky. Hopefully, the quality control is better now. The downside is that they run on gasoline (benzine, essence). It's a dangerous fuel and it is easy to have an accident with them. This kind of stove should not be fired up indoors. For those planning for prepping, kerosene (petrole, paraffin) stoves are a much safer, if oilier and smellier and harder to prime, fuel to rely on. I've seen copies of Swedish kerosene stove in just about every part of the world where people were too poor to afford the real thing. Here in America where we barbecue (BBQ) a lot, charcoal lighter fluid works just as well as a less smelly substitute and it is easy to find in just about any grocery store. And stoves fueled by what we call propane and butane seem like even safer fuels for indoor use when the power goes out during events like big storms. Nice review. It brings back a lot of memories. Thanks!

[@jarikinnunen1718]

Testing safety valve: Fill it FULL of water in it and heat up until valve opening or it cracks. Fluids not explode. Gasoline need boil to vapor before it explode. It need heat for do it. Gas leak is more dangerous.

[@johnkiljan7441]

Hey @@jarikinnunen1718 , don't forget that these stoves have a cotton wick inside them. If water ever gets into the tank, it will preferentially soak into that wick, and the stove will not work afterwards until it is pulled apart and the wick is fully dried out.

[@darrenerickson1288]

Obviously you've used it, but a correction: most stoves in this class can burn any liquid fuel. Gasoline is gasoline. Alcohol is alcohol. Kerosene is kerosene (or liquid paraffin, same). Diesel is diesel. And most of these stoves can burn anything. And propane/butane works very poorly if at all in very low temperatures - these stoves kick their butts.

[@seanwilson471]

In England Kerosene. Bought in quantity for domestic heating boilers. Bought retail in hardware stores known as paraffin. The only difference is Paraffin is slightly better filtered and sometimes a die added to differentiate from food products. Aga and range cookers use it too but this needs to be a premium filtered high grade kerosene. Any of it is fine for a Tilly lamp or pressure stove. The alcohol is de-natured Ethanol sold in UK as methylated spirit

[@swedishhiker]

Thanks for sorting that out. 😁

[@gunterbecker8528]

I had one it was more trouble than what was worth it.

[@swedishhiker]

How do you think it was more troble then worth it?

[@nigelnightmare4160]

12:10 Very smart. If you leave the key on it, it will get VERY HOT VERY QUICKLY (less than a minute)and you will burn your fingers.

[@gedeon2696]

Always remove the key when not adjusting, otherwise it will get HOT !! Also use some sort of insulation (NON-flameble) under the stove in cool/cold conditions [wood/cork square covered with foil] . It will be a big help.

[@swedishhiker]

Yes for sure. You will learn the hard way about the key. 😁

[@zeehond1960]

I ia using the Svea and it is a very good small stove, I’m not a great fan of the aluminum cup. It’s not very healthy to use The GSI Glacier cup fits perfectly on the Svea.

[@puma1304]

I find it strange that you did not know this stove, it is so Swedish as Volvo, Trangia or IKEA... since I was a small child I got in touch with Primus and Optimus stoves, in our boat and fishing cabin there was always one, we also used them when camping and trekking in the mountains, and I still own a Svea from the fifties in perfect condition! Together with my Trangia, my Bahco saw and my Mora knives it is part of my "swedish outdoor squadron". A Gränfors Bruk axe I do not carry because down here we rather use machetes... greetings from wild, wet, windy and wonderful western Patagonia

[@gusteevte5665]

Chile ??

[@markflood6491]

i went to patagonia once it tryed to bite me lol

[@bongdudugenio9947]

please show the model, im interested to get one. Tak pris!

[@peter7624]

Really nicely made. Not popular these days because they're not idiot proof and now there are lots of idiots around who want to sue the manufacturer for their own stupidity. I have had a variety of Primus stoves etc. including a WW2 US paratroopers petrol stove and found them fascinating to use. You do need to think a little more when you use them.I suppose you would call them "old technology" these days.

[@swedishhiker]

Yeah they do take a little more work to handle. Maby thats whats keep people from using them like you say.

[@surfandstreamfisher5749]

rooster approved!!

[@swedishhiker]

Haha yeah! 😂😂

[@hooperbloop7625]

I've had one of these stoves for over fifty. years. Still works great. My only complaint is that they are really loud when running.

[@swedishhiker]

Yeah they make that special sound. I kind of like that sound actualy. :)

[@marcelomandiola2530]

Är den äldre eller modern ? Vart kan hitta?

[@MrRdmiller]

Nice video. Very complete. Are the new ones still made in Sweden?

[@swedishhiker]

No not anymore. Belive they build them in taiwan these days. But still built like a brick.

[@otway00]

50 years ago that was the stove to have

[@KontionJukka]

Nice stowe, think I will get this too👌 If you transport it(in your backpack) does it leak if full of fuel, or should it be empty when inside backpack??

[@heikki.v]

Moi Jukka. Ei tarvi tyhjentää säiliötä on niin tiivis ei edes haise polttoaine pakattuna rinkkaan. Hyvä jähyttää kunnolla ennen pakkaamista.

[@KontionJukka]

@@heikki.v hei kiitos. Kyllähän sen loogisesti tietysti vois arvata. Painekeitin kuitenkin. Ajattelin lisätä siihen "lämmitysloveen" mihin lämmitysbensa kaadetaan, lasikuitutiivisteen pätkän. Josko toimis kynttilän sydänlangan tavoin. Ei tarviis kovalla pakkasella ""paineistaa" kuin kerran". Ainakin itestä tuntuu ettei kerää pakkasella painetta yhellä esilämmityksellä

[@mackbolan5126]

Are the modern versions made in Sweden or Taiwan?

[@santamulligan676]

Can it run on petrol I’m confused, great for mountaineering

[@swedishhiker]

Yeah it can but white fuel is reccomended since its cleaner. :)

[@adamwalker7338]

Akylatbensin, tack. I've seen that stuff at jula and Biltema, not known exactly what it was.

[@ahah1785]

Quality is not the same as the vintage ones....i use a primus 71 from 1947, its pretty much same stove but you can take it apart and replace parts. I could not replace the wick inside the new svea123, sold it asap.

[@Jakelol1980]

Gillar du fortfarande köket? Ärköket helt tätt när den är avstängd ifall att man skulle råka packa den upp och ned?

[@swedishhiker]

Gillar det fortfarande. Osäker på om det håller tätt upp och ner men det borde det göra tycker jag.

[@jarikinnunen1718]

11:08 Do not touch it when it hot by bare hands. If it become habit, some day you are clumsy and bad happen.

[@explorermike19]

Wow. A brand new shiny brass SVEA stove. I haven't seen one new since 1978. Are they made in China now?

[@swedishhiker]

Belive its taiwan. But quality is still superb!

[@explorermike19]

@@swedishhiker I owned one of the first Taiwan copies of the SVEA stoves in early 1980s. It caught fire and turned into a big fireball and shot an enormous rooster-tail of flame about 10 feet high.. I never bought any stove again made in Taiwan or China.

[@swedishhiker]

@@explorermike19 well it worked good for me. I wonder if there are copies of the raiwan made. Like non aproved sveas.

[@explorermike19]

@@swedishhiker The fake SVEA from Taiwan had was back in the very early 1980's. I am sure it was NOT an official SVEA approved stove, just a cheap Taiwan copy.... but obviously not a good copy. I only remember two things about it: 1. It was too cheap to resist. 2. It turned into a big fireball and I never used it again.

[@swedishhiker]

@@explorermike19 well thisbis aproved by optimus. Så trademarked and not cheap. 😁

[@MaNi-cn7to]

Är det Kina gjord 123R eller riktig 123?

[@swedishhiker]

Den är inte vintage. Så den är från deras produktion i Taiwan gissar jag. All optimus tillverkning sker där nu. Mer som jag förstått det.

[@MaNi-cn7to]

@@swedishhiker Tack!

[@iconoclastic12007]

When you place or remove a pot from the stove put the pot over the stove and lower it or raise the pot then bring it towards you. If you slide the pot towards you the wires on the stove that hold the pot might get out of alignment and then when you replace the pot it will spill. Don’t do this !

[@swedishhiker]

Good points!

[@gedeon2696]

Not good at simmer, but if you cool down the tank a bit [to reduce pressure], it is possible to simmer. Svea 123(R), Optimus 80 are CLASSICS.

[@swedishhiker]

Yeah its a little hard to adjust this is true.

[@shootingsportstransparency7461]

Using that stove already for almost fifty years with normal (unleaded) car petrol,

[@swedishhiker]

Thats real cool!

[@vitorvasconcelos2846]

Onde comprar?🤔 👍

[@bartwalker474]

#Vitor Vasconcelos Uno puede comprar esta estufa aqui: www.amazon.com/Optimus-Svea-Climber-Outdoor-Stove/dp/B000XZ5FDY/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=svea+123+stove&qid=1632247944&sr=8-1 Que Tenga Buena Suerte Senor!

[@vitorvasconcelos2846]

@@bartwalker474 obrigado!👍🖐

[@MrWipex]

where the heck is the pump?!

[@swedishhiker]

There is no pump, well there is one you can order extra for real high altitudes or real cold. But for most this runs on selfpressure after you prime it with heat.

[@MrWipex]

@@swedishhiker Brilliant! 👍🏻

[@jayk3784]

상향식 저소음 연소캡잇써요

[@Jakelol1980]

Hur mycket bränsle drar köket på ett ungefär?

[@swedishhiker]

Enligt instruktionen skall man kunna köra ca 50 min fullt blås på 1.2dl.

[@Jakelol1980]

@@swedishhiker Ok tack för snabbt svar.

[@johnsmith-xh6je]

I don't like the tiny fuel tank which making filling it through the even tinier fill hole I'll stick with my whisper lite intl.

[@jayk3784]

저소음 연소캡잇써요

[@krzysztofwaleska]

Alcohol will not work as main fuel. Best is diesel fuel from east (outside EU) or real kerosine/jet fuel. Best amount of callories per liter.

[@marzsit9833]

diesel/kerosene will not burn in any svea 123. it will only burn white gas or in an emergency, automotive petrol/gasoline.

[@TheBikerDodge]

Why people still buy these things is baffling.