Description Beautifully crafted of solid brass, the ultra-classic Climber Svea 123R stove looks like a museum piece-- but fires up like a mini blast furnace. Generations have relied on the dependable performance...
Reviewed by: Steve McIntosh(Unregistered User)
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Backpacker
Price Paid:
$68.00
Summary: Absolutely dynamite piece of equipment that has NEVER EVER failed to light. I've had my stove (actually it's an earlier 123) for over 20 years and it's still going strong. I have never had to do any field maintenance and just ordered, for the first time ever, a maintenance kit just because I saw a little flameout near the valve, a simple replacement of an O ring should make it good as new. We also have MSR, Coleman (yechch) and have had a variety of cartridge stoves. This one gets my vote for best ever.
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Summary: All I can say is that this stove is incrediable has never let me down and always delivers. I collect and use many stoves for outdoor use and this is my all time favorite. If you are looking for the best look no further. My svea 123 rocks !!!!!
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Summary: Bought this new in April 2007. Always fun! to light. It doesn't boil as fast as a modern liquid fueled stove, but is small and easily stored inside a Vango Titanium mug, (a little bit of the stove can be seen).
It isn't the lightest, 550g fully fuelled, but in sub-zero and in warm weather, (it's never hot in the uk!!)it works really well.
I like the style of this stove - looks, sound and performance. A genuine classic.
Similar Products Used: Primus omnifuel, optimus crux.
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Summary: This stove is a collector's item for sure and (like your '69 corvette or wooden-shaft ice axe) would be best left in the garage. The technology behind its legendary reliability has evolved into modern stoves that are just as reliable but weigh less, burn hotter and (most importantly) more efficiently. Additionally, the contemporary offspring of this stove use remote fuel canisters that do not share the SVEA's propensity to explo- I mean "overheat."
Customer Service: n/a
Similar Products Used: MSR: XGK, Dragonfly, whisperlight, whisperlight inter'l, simmerlight
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Summary: Had the Optimus 123 since 1985 and has never failed me. Just keeps on burning.
The stove simmers well and has a sound of it's own. You know who is using one if you here it.
I have see many hikers with there 3-4 minute boiling time stoves have problems and some even cought on fire.
The Optimus 123 is a real "Die Hard" and I would never consider ever using anything else.
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