Diy trangia pot stand

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20180404_110554.jpg 20180404_110603.jpg 20180404_135740.jpg 20180404_135810.jpg Heres my version of a pot stand for a trangia. Had to make one as i couldnt find anything like it, and it was what i was after, similar to the lightweight hexi burners.

Its aluminium, weighs 66 grams. Ive give it a heat test to see if the aluminium softens, so far so good, the aluminium is hopefully thick enough, and the holes are there to cool it as much as anything. It takes a 2 litre pot full easily. Packs and unpacks easy which is what i wanted most
 
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Janne

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Great job!

A question: The adjustment-lid on the burner, is it made by the factory? My old burner does not have one like that.
it looks more functional than the one I have on mine.
 
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Thanks all . This is what i moselled it after

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ESBIT-TI...523297?hash=item1c44460321:g:yesAAOSwQItT43Ep

The burner janne comes as is, simmer ring cap and burner , civvy style. It seemed kike the obvious, but icould not find one. Purchaced the trangia triangle, which seemed like spring loaded razor blades to me at 120 g , sent it back. Spent ages looking for one, but i had to make one which is a bad state of affairs. I just do not know how he does it:)

https://bushcraftuk.com/trangia-triangle/

The making of it is really easy actually, even though the end result is most pleasing. Hacksaw, pliers, screw type hobby vice(managed to break the big 12lb vice, cracked it straitening garden forks) fine and course file, drill. Aluminium cuts like cardboard, hardest part is curving the metal round the post and cutting it to the right length, at least one short failure at that. Easy codge though, the sides to the burner where not ment to have flats on them, bit wider with a file, and i get compliments like looks profesional. :whistling:
 
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Janne

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Nice to see they have improved the burner. The old system was a ring that was attached with a circular spring. Had two positions. On or Off. Not so good.

There is a trick with those burners to make them useful in severe sub zero temperatures, a kind of 'booster' or 'Turbo' flame, but as you live in mild Britain you would just waste the Alcohol!`
 

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tidy bit of kit, nice job there :) Now that you've started I'm sure you'll be making all sorts of new gadgets for camping! Just don't get into using titanium: that way lies madness (plus swearing and great expense!)
 
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Thanks dave, from someone as yourself it's a nice compliment. I think steel is too much work with my present workshop, titanium has a nasty habit of ruining tools, more a specialist manufacturing facility job. As I said the aluminium worked really easy. Next is yet another bivvy, I'll post the story on that soon.

Janne the advantage is over a big trangia, it's lighter, quicker and more packable.
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Over the mini trangia, which is this but with a different pot and frying pan handle lid, it's flatter pack size, more useful as the pan is wider, more economic with fuel too, the burner is not connected to the ground so it does not build up a heat reserve in it and overheat the burner. Now I have to find a lid for the pan.IMG_20180406_143610.jpg
 
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Janne

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Titanium is easily workable with Carbide tools. That is how we dentists work with it. but they do not last as long as when using on steel.
Ti sparks nicely too.

I think Ti is overhyped in bushcrafting. Nothing wrong with Aluminium!

On my small Trangia ( more than 30 years old) the burner does not touch the ground. Maybe they redesigned it.

I love the Trangia burner. Your solution widens the Use of it immensely.

Did your burner come with a screw on lid, with an internal black rubber O-ring?
 
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They are off the floor in the full size one, but seemed to neglect this when making the mini trangia. Really I should have been able to find something like this for sale. There are a multitude of trangia triangle things that you can have a fire in too, but they are a bit complicated for lazy people like me.

Yep the burner came with a screw cap. Trangia actually do a stand alone burner and stand, but it's heavy and unpackable.

Strangley titanium pans suit the big flame of the meths cooker as hotspots are reduced. I'm sure if the stand was made from titanium it would be about 20 grams.
 
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Leave the flanges for the pin longer than you need. I curved the flanges around the pin by clamping the first pan support in the vice, and using pipe grips to curve the flanges round the pin and then cutting it to length, you need a nice tight fit. Then putting the outer pan support leaves in line with the first, clamped them in the vice, and curved there flanges round the pin too so I got a symmetrical arrangement. You have to off set the outer flanges toward the middle other wise it does not close flat. Careful when you cut the curved wrap aroundsas it's easy to cut them too short. I left one of the pan support leaves with all 3 flanges on to make stops for the other 2 so they only open to the right angle, as you can see in the photos. Get the width approximately right, and if you need it cut into the sides of the pan supports to make it wider if needed, they would be the flat bits where the trangia sits.

The aluminium is easy to shape, I used around 2mm thickness and providing you get it right first time, any fatigue just goes down as work hardening, just do not expect to be able to reshape it too drastically after the initial bend.
 
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