About time I got around to equipping a British Army No.12 stove with a proper pot rest. Bought for £5 some years ago, the pot rest was missing. A more critical missing part was the burner, so a replacement soon after acquiring the stove was an Optimus regulated burner with a suitable fuel pipe fabricated to incorporate the necessary dimensions and angles. The absent trivet prompted me to make use of an army No.2 one, sat rather inelegantly on the frame. So, today, I finally got around to making a trivet out of 5mm stainless steel rod. Here’s an example of the stock component. I wanted my trivet to resemble that, but (with an espresso pot in mind) to provide support for small diameter based pots in addition to a capacity for larger pots. Here’s what I came up with. Not an easy task, since forming bends in stainless steel obviously has to be with the material at red heat and even then it’s not nearly as malleable as mild steel is when red hot. Brazing the joints when the components had taken shape was the easy bit. I’m happy with the result. John
