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meselfs posted:Trangia + methanol. Awww yisss
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. The reliability and the fact that it'll work pretty much anywhere is worth something.
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I have a Whisperlight, a Primus and a Coleman white gas, but I almost always end up taking an alcohol stove made out of a Bud bottle and use Heet yellow bottle as fuel. https://youtu.be/Ty13Im0wBhU
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i have a microrocket and a bunch of diy alcohol stoves. if you're buying a pocket rocket spring for the microrocket, its a lot nicer. anyone got some good+cheap no-coating aluminum cook pot reco's? i thought this would be a simple thing i could go to a store and buy, but nope.
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I've heard that a Walmart grease pot is the gold standard for that
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Dec 26, 2015 17:38
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I've been using an unadorned aluminum Trangia 2 liter pot for several years and been fairly pleased.
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Free Market Mambo posted:I've heard that a Walmart grease pot is the gold standard for that It works pretty good, not the strongest thing out there, but it's light.
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sweet, ordered the last stanco grease pot on walmart.com since none of the locations around me had one. think i'll have any luck fitting a small canister and a microrocket inside of it?
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*Edit* I don't think that Stanco is the same one, this is the one I have. http://www.amazon.com/Imusa-Aluminum-Grease-Dipsenser-Quart/dp/B0018EA048 It's 6"h x 5"w, with a gas canister you have 2" of height left to play with, I can't tell you if the Microrocket will fit like that, since I have the Classic Trail and I've never put that in it and can't find the drat thing right now, but my bud lite bottle alcohol stove, lighter, cup and spork all fit in with room to spare. I keep the lid secured with a shock cord and line lock. Retarted Pimple fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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I do not camp because I find it boring but I recently camped because I wanted to make food outside. For this purpose I ask my redhead friend for his stove. It was small and made a blue flame because it burned a gas. I used the flame to heat a pot where I first boiled water to make tea. Then I used it to heat bullion cube and water then added vegetables I brought in my backpack and some beancurd (no meat because I was afraid of diseases I would get from meat left uncooked too long). It was good eat so I think camp stoves are good now.
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Dec 29, 2015 17:02
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Ok, Krug.
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Nothing beats an old-fashioned camp fire IMHO, OP.
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Dec 29, 2015 18:17
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Get thee to the campfire thread
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Dec 29, 2015 18:59
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Whisperlite Int'l has been bulletproof. I've taken that thing everywhere. Good stuff.
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Dec 29, 2015 19:06
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Dragon Fly .... drat!
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I've had 'campfire' as my main with an esbit for backup but having a campfire isn't always a given and the solid fuel tabs I have smell like picked fish assholes. Gasifier stoves seem cool but 70 bucks is more than I want to throw down so I made a hobo one out of cans for like four bucks. It seems to work alright in backyard burns, maybe because I cut my hand while building it and inadvertently performed some sort of blood ritual to infuse my stove with the spirit of an ancient and primordial gorp-based deity. Maybe.
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Dec 29, 2015 22:48
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 My go to, for 2 days. just enough fuel easy to start comes with impressive tin. For serious poo poo I have a Trangia X2 that I got at a garage sale for 20$. Dump unleaded/kerosene/whitegas/orphans, will still boil water. The dragon fly and whisperlite are two awesome al around stoves.
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Retarded Pimp posted:*Edit* That pot looks a lot better shaped than the one I got. Think it would fit a small isopro canister? And do you know what it weighs w/ or w/o lid by chance?
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I run a cat can stove with tin foil wind screen, grease pot, and HEAT for fuel.
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Uhhh heat isn't a fuel, it's the product of the fuel burning 
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alnilam posted:Uhhh heat isn't a fuel, it's the product of the fuel burning He's burning Carnots  He means Heet. http://www.amazon.com/28201-Gas-Line-Antifreeze-Water-Remover/dp/B0016GXNC4 Or is that 
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Retarded Pimp posted:I have a Whisperlight, a Primus and a Coleman white gas, but I almost always end up taking an alcohol stove made out of a Bud bottle and use Heet yellow bottle as fuel. Those two burner propane Coleman stoves are all I ever really use, if not just a wire rack over the campfire~
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I use a Vargo Hexagon in titanium because where i camp has a lot of groundlitter and this works with esbits or paraffin too http://www.vargooutdoors.com/hexagon-backpacking-wood-stove.html#.VrQAO1grKao folds flat, pretty easy and boils water fast enough
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sky shark posted:I use a Vargo Hexagon in titanium because where i camp has a lot of groundlitter and this works with esbits or paraffin too I have had no luck with mine, what kind of stove are you using in it, or are you burning wood?
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wood, esbit cube / bbq starter, or those liquid parrafin candle usually just wood though
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sky shark posted:wood, esbit cube / bbq starter, or those liquid parrafin candle Ah. I only tried wood a few times and it worked, but only in the most technical definition of "worked". It would be nice if one was stuck in the woods I guess but i cant get it to burn any better then a soup can rocket stove. And I have tried a bunch of different alcohol stoves and it fails pretty hard at being a windscreen too. I really want to like it but I am never impressed by it and should really just sell it and buy a Caldera Cone to fit my pot.
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I love rocket stoves but the bulk and weight are so terrible for backpacking. I wish someone would come up with one that can be broken down easily. I went to a local outdoors show last year and one of the booths had rocket stoves made out of ammo cans that had to weigh 30lbs because it was all welded steel plate on the inside. I've built one out of a number 10 can & soup can in the past but it was too big to be practical.
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Goddamn if that's accurate that would pretty much double my pack weight. No thanks.
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sky shark posted:I love rocket stoves but the bulk and weight are so terrible for backpacking. I wish someone would come up with one that can be broken down easily. I went to a local outdoors show last year and one of the booths had rocket stoves made out of ammo cans that had to weigh 30lbs because it was all welded steel plate on the inside. Yeah, that has been my experience as well. I had such high hopes for the Vargo. I might try making a restrictor plate to cover some of the holes on the bottom so I can experiment with airflow.
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bongwizzard posted:Yeah, that has been my experience as well. I had such high hopes for the Vargo. I might try making a restrictor plate to cover some of the holes on the bottom so I can experiment with airflow. I've seen some nice woodgas stoves which break down, not exactly the same, but similar fuel source/applications.
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If you don't give a poo poo about leave no trace or are on your own land, and the soil conditions permit, you can build a Dakota style stove: http://survivaltopics.com/the-dakota-fire-hole/ Operates sorta like a rocket stove, but more effort. Does anyone else subscribe to the primitive technology channel? This video was pretty awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE
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Sweet man-child tree fort.
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sky shark posted:If you don't give a poo poo about leave no trace or are on your own land, and the soil conditions permit, you can build a Dakota style stove: http://survivaltopics.com/the-dakota-fire-hole/ I have made a pretty rough hole-fire before. It worked ok but we didn't build it deep or big enough. I might mod the firepit in our yard with an buried air inlet pipe this summer when I do the annual digout and cleanup. I have a big stack of cinderblocks, bricks, and such that I use to make grills and smokers for parties and love nothing more then spending a summer day drinking beer and making dumb stoves.
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So remember I was talking about the super heavyweight rocket stove I saw at a show? Yeah, found it on Amazon today: http://www.amazon.com/Minuteman-Rocket-Stove/dp/B00QHEMCS6 14lbs without fuel. gently caress carrying that thing.
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Are the pocket stove fuel cube things all putrid smelling? Or did someone just give me old rotty stuff? For a bit I thought I forgot to wash a pan or something, before I found what the smell was from.
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Re: coffeechat: Like all good bandwagoneers, we got an Aeropress when they first came out and went through about two packs of those little paper filters before we got fed up with only being able to make two small cups at a time. However, with the addition of a stainless steel filter, it has become an essential backpacking accessory. It's probably the most lightweight way to make actual coffee that you would want to drink. Plus all the parts kind of nestle into each other with enough room for a small Ziploc of grounds.
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Epitope posted:Are the pocket stove fuel cube things all putrid smelling? Or did someone just give me old rotty stuff? For a bit I thought I forgot to wash a pan or something, before I found what the smell was from. People all say this, but I can't detect any smell from them at all and it really worries me.
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Epitope posted:Are the pocket stove fuel cube things all putrid smelling? Or did someone just give me old rotty stuff? For a bit I thought I forgot to wash a pan or something, before I found what the smell was from. I thought a rat died in my HVAC system until realizing the wrapping on a fuel tab had been punctured at the back of a closet. I don't use that poo poo no mo.
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You guys meant like the little white esbit tabs, right? I literally only get a faint chemically sharp odor from them. 
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that zenstoves website is a treasure trove of good info, here i am drilling holes into household items and turning everything i can find into alcohol stoves. Epitope posted:Are the pocket stove fuel cube things all putrid smelling? Or did someone just give me old rotty stuff? For a bit I thought I forgot to wash a pan or something, before I found what the smell was from. bongwizzard posted:You guys meant like the little white esbit tabs, right? there's 2 kinds, the cheap ones you get at army surplus stores smell worse and let off toxic fumes. esbit ones shouldn't smell too horrible but they'll still coat your cookware in poo poo.
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The ones that stink are the army surplus trioxane. Esbits shouldn't smell much, if at all.
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