[pct-l] Pct-l Digest, Vol 16, Issue 42

[Ben Hooley]

pete - 

for extra stove support you can use your tent stakes, if you drive them in the ground at the base of the stove you can stabilize the pot while still leaving it in contact with the top of the stove

also a primer pan will require some additional drops of alcohol but allow your stove to bloom much quicker and burn more efficiently

--- On Fri, 4/10/09, CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net> wrote:

> From: CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Pct-l Digest, Vol 16, Issue 42
> To: xphanson at yahoo.com
> Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 2:00 PM
> Good morning, Flop,
> 
> 
> 
> I haven’t used a Whitebox Stove – I resist paying over
> $20 for the
> functional equivalent of what I can make for myself in 20
> minutes out of two
> cat food cans – but I do have a smaller open-top contact
> stove.  The
> stability of it is really bad.  If you elect to use
> the Whitebox with a
> separate pot support I suggest you measure the performance
> with, and
> without, the support.  According to the Whitebox
> instructions it is made to
> have the bottom of the pot in direct contact with its top
> to force the vapor
> out the side holes, and it may be like my little contact
> stove which gets
> really cranky and performs less well when the pot is on a
> stand up and away
> from the stove.  Your results may vary, but I’m just
> klutzy enough to tip
> the thing over without a pot support.
> 
> 
> 
> Steel-Eye
> 
> Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT -- 1965
> 
>  http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
> 
>  http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Peter Hanson <xphanson at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I used this stove on my hike last year.  I had no
> problems with it and I'll
> > keep using it.  My only complaints are: 1) while
> you place your pot directly
> > on the stove, the small size of the stove means a lack
> of stability (you
> > must use care); and 2) you do have to wait a short
> amount of time (about a
> > minute)  for the stove to heat up before you
> place the pot on and start
> > heating.  This means that you are wasting a small
> amount of fuel each time
> > the stove is used.
> >
> > Both problems above could be solved by using a
> separate pot support made
> > out of chicken wire or something - I didn't bother.
> >
> > There is a good review of this stove on YouTube:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYjn8Urk7YA
> >
> > I have a question.  Last year I carried my
> alcohol in a 12 oz. aluminum
> > that was red and labelled "Fuel".  Someone on the
> trail told me that it was
> > not safe to carry alcohol in an aluminum bottle. 
> Has anyone heard of this?
> >
> > Thanks,  Pete Hanson / Flop
> >
> > --- On Fri, 4/10/09, pct-l-request at backcountry.net
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> wrote:
> >
> >
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> > Message: 4
> > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:46:19 -0700
> > From: Sean Carey <seanpct75 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [pct-l] stove
> > To: Pct-l at backcountry.net
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> > Hello,
> >
> > I am really considering the whitebox stove. I like how
> it looks. Anyone
> > like
> > this stove at well? Good choice? If not other options?
> Thank you. Oh it's
> > only $20+ $3 shipping to. :)
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
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