I've just tried a repeat experiment. My billy-can is a dinky one - max total volume 500ml and I got it to "nest" with the base of my nalgene...
Yup! That's pretty much the set-up I've got. Try leaving the burner burning, tossing out the boiling water, letting the billy-can cool, putting...
This chap has "done the math" for you. http://zenstoves.net/StoveChoices.htm#Efficiency Scroll down about 4 pages from where the link takes you...
Trangia meths burners always performed behind the kerosene/gasoline burners in those "boil time tests" in the hiking magazines from cold....
Hehehe! Transformerssss Robots in disguisesss
Thanks for your help with the pics, Trevor. I'll look up how to do it right before I try that again. Wow - I'm moved to the Reference gallery!?...
Thanks - But I've mucked up the photo-insertion and will have to re-do it once I've figured out *how*.
Hi guys. I'm 18 months late. Mostly 'cos I moves house about the time I discovered stove tinkering, and lost the gadget that take the pictures...
That's a lovely box for Car-camping! Is a "Haubits" an artillery gun?
I have a Primus 71 of a similar age. It's just a few years younger and missing that sliding inner cover that yours has. It too arrived without the...
Ok, I can see why a pool of cool water on the top of a Tanjine can encourage condensation and recirculation of the steam. This is probably helpful...
I have two theories on the postulated "egg-poacher" and poaching eggs is neither of them. 1) It's a funnel, through which you stuff handfuls of...
Hi all. I've been getting back into camping/hiking after a hiatus and I have been disappointed by both my old Trangia solo-set and a butane...
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