Here's a website where I've posted photos of some of my stoves. More to follow! http://www.flickr.com/photos/canadian_iain/ Iain \
Excellent stuff... I think we should all get around to displaying a gallery of our stoves. Now where's my camera? Cheers GC
d**n missing USB cord! A friend of mine was looking at those Brasslites, how are they? Niether he or I had run into anyone who had owned/used one.
I've got a Brasslite which I used backpacking in Scotland last year. It's nicely made, but I won't be taking it again. The problems I had with it were: 1) Uneconomical with fuel (in common with other alcohol stoves). 2) Very unstable - you need to take a spirit level and find a firm level spot to place the stove on. 3) Because of the poor stability and the fact that you can't put it out easily, it's dangerous to use in the porch of a backpacking tent (something you need to be able to do in Sotland because of the weather). Jim Ford
I must admit I'm not over impressed with the Brasslite but I need to use it a bit more to get used to it. Apart from being a bit tippy (not good for porch cooking - ok, ok - I know the rules but try cooking outside all the time in UK weather) I found the adjuster difficult to use & impossible once I'd let a pan boil over as the residue siezed the thing up.
Several comments: 1) This is about a 1/3 of the collection. More to follow tomorrow! 2) This model of the Brasslite was discontinued as it's too tall for it's size. Yes, you need to find a level spot and hold the pot if you so much as look at it let alone do anything. New model is stouter. =D> 3) Looking for a 111. Patience will get me one, I'll trade off some of extra's i.e. Primus 50 and Optimus 45, both lacking the legs and flame spreaders (gone to 51 and another 45) to a good home and the hunt is on. Iain
If you're in a tent porch, you've just got to keep the pan on the stove - even if it boils over. I took the pan of mine and nerly set fire to the tent - the flame stood about 18" high and wafted around in the draught! BTW, mine is the latest Turbo 1 Jim Ford
Yep, nice photo's I've got to get mine updated with some newer photo's too, damn, where's all the time at because I'm missing some?! 9 sleeps!
The best part of this that I track my stoves on a database on my Palm. With the one stove photo, I realised that I had not entered it into the database. The same thing with my camping equipment. Packrat by nature, it's over 200 items and I still find items that I have not entered. Get your photos out into the world, variety is the spice of life! Iain
Iain You are a very sad person. I have an excel database for my lamps and stoves. I've just bought a new Palm Tungsten so I think I'll put it on there as well, I already have some photos on there
Henry, I only have a Palm m500 with a greyscale screen. Photos would be a waste of time. I use a database rather than Excel as I found Excel too hard to read on the palm for the amount of information on the screen. The database allows tabbed forms. Now with switching to the Mac from Windows, I'll have to find a database that will run on the new computer. Such is life. Iain
You may go for Claris FileMaker - if you can get it for a reasonable price at ebay. http://www.filemaker.com/ It is a very good database, also available for Windows, and has excellent Import/Export functions. Using the CSV-format, I regularly transfer Palm data to File Maker and back, e.g. the complete address database, or my camping packlist (managed with the excellent freeware "handyshopper"). Older versions (e.g. Version 4) will do nicely, and are easier to learn and to maintain. If you need mor info, just PN me. Cheers motorang 8)
Sad? Who's sad? Pushing 300 quid's worth of handheld to carry your stoviepix about. What happened to the good old snapshot in the wallet?
Will there be a Palm Collector site in 80 years where they'll talk about "Hey I got my M100 to Light up" or how to swap parts to get a working one. The toys of today unless loving preserved will be dust collectors in even as little as 20 years. Likely the older models without built in batteries will prove to be the longest lasting. I like my stoves. Built like tanks (BrassLite the exception), usable in a hundred years! Iain May the Spirit move you.
