Yes, you add some fuel (petrol) to the cup under the burner and light that, the instructions state you fill the cup under the burner just by turning the burner on before lighting, in practice it ends up spraying fuel all over the place, so I fill it with a small syringe first, then light the cup as demonstrated. The burner works really well once warmed up, I made the video originally as I was thinking of selling it via e-bay and thought it would be good for folks to see it working.
Yes I can imagine it would be but Aspen is really expensive and the little stove does eat their way through fuel I find. I'll stick to petrol, well while you can still buy it LOL May be I should convert it to electric with a pile of 18650 batteries LOL
@R2 D2 I have one of these and they dont run very well on kerosine and seem to be quite smokey, they will run but are harder to start and tend not to be anywhere near as good as petrol.
@R2 D2 On petrol they really do work very well, clean burning as well as you can see in that video, although this one does still splutter yellow flames when up to temp and I suspect thats because its using old petrol, fresh stuff burns with a very clean blue flame. Remember you are dealing with pressurised petrol vapour though, I've had mine flame out before now and cover the whole thing in hot liquid petrol which ends up looking quite scary, not something you would want to use indoors !!!!
