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Reviews for WhisperLite Stove
Average Rating : 4.10 out of 5
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Review by: steelfoot, 2004-06-10
I like my whisperlite although it's eight years old and there's a lot of lighter stoves on the market. All-in-all it's a great stove.
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Review by: tyify, 2004-06-02
If lit wrong you best not like the hair on the back of your hands =-P...But all in all a good stove. Heats better than my range at home...Their is also all kinds of cool accesories for it. The only problem it has is it tends to tip if nothing is on it...
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Review by: shakylegs, 2004-05-26
Good heat, but you have to keep an eye on it at lower temps. Easy to prime, which is a bonus.
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Review by: climbingfreak, 2004-05-25
Safe and reliable never had a problem in the 2 or 3 years we have owned it.
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Review by: luke, 2004-04-21
I dont have too much to add to what others have said. good, fast cooking, light, packable, mostly easy to get fuel (especially if you have the international version), but hard to control the simmer.
Just two other points.
The dial that controls the flow of fuel broke on mine (i'm not sure how, but it was 10 years old and in sub-freezing temps). When I went to get a new one I found that there is a new version of the pump and fuel controller (it came out in 2003 or 2004). It is a little more beefy and harder to break than the old one, but the fuel control is not a dial anymore - it is a little fold-down wire thingumy (I cant explain but you can probably find pictures on the MSR website). In my opinion this makes simmer even harder to control, though it may be just that I spent a decade getting used to the old version.
The other note is that if you are going to foreign countries you might want to track down what they call "white gas" in advance. I have the international version and have run it on unleaded gas a lot (which gives less good performance) because I couldnt find white gas. eg, in finland you get white gas at a marine supply store - ask for "special benzene 80/110". (who knew?) In sweden you can get it at gas stations, but it is labelled for use in certain lawnmowers. (Not all swedish lawnmower gas is good - it needs to be four stroke not two stroke). The moral of this is that asking a knowledgable local can save you a lot of hassle. You shouldnt expect that camping stores will know - most people in europe use propane or butane stoves and I have asked unsuccessfully at many stores. Of course you can burn unleaded gas in the international version of the stove, but then you need to clean it more often.
Just two other points.
The dial that controls the flow of fuel broke on mine (i'm not sure how, but it was 10 years old and in sub-freezing temps). When I went to get a new one I found that there is a new version of the pump and fuel controller (it came out in 2003 or 2004). It is a little more beefy and harder to break than the old one, but the fuel control is not a dial anymore - it is a little fold-down wire thingumy (I cant explain but you can probably find pictures on the MSR website). In my opinion this makes simmer even harder to control, though it may be just that I spent a decade getting used to the old version.
The other note is that if you are going to foreign countries you might want to track down what they call "white gas" in advance. I have the international version and have run it on unleaded gas a lot (which gives less good performance) because I couldnt find white gas. eg, in finland you get white gas at a marine supply store - ask for "special benzene 80/110". (who knew?) In sweden you can get it at gas stations, but it is labelled for use in certain lawnmowers. (Not all swedish lawnmower gas is good - it needs to be four stroke not two stroke). The moral of this is that asking a knowledgable local can save you a lot of hassle. You shouldnt expect that camping stores will know - most people in europe use propane or butane stoves and I have asked unsuccessfully at many stores. Of course you can burn unleaded gas in the international version of the stove, but then you need to clean it more often.
