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Cheers for the input folks, lots to consider. I'd completely forgoten about the BCB ration heater they made for the French. The Esbit flat folding stove and the similar Polymath one are a bit too wide to fit in the bottom of the small trangia, which is about 8.5cm wide inside. Neither design...

To make a vest like that i'd use a pattern for a fleece jacket and just leave the arms off, make it a size smaller than you would a jacket proper for a tighter fit and bobs your mothers brother. I've been looking for a old school fleece gillet in my size but only found mega expensive ones so...

I've just picked up a Trangia small messtin to make up a basic emergency kit to be carried in a drop belt pouch or pocket rather than in a pack. What I want is shelter ( got a Sol emergency bivy so thats covered) the capacity to make 3 hot high energy drinks and a days worth of my personal...

Being impressed with the ones I got the wife and youngest a week or so back I visited Outdoor Action again and had a root through all the 17 quid Craghoppers fleeces they are knee-deep in and found a 4XL in an acceptable green. Also got a slightly reduced Trangia small mess tin.to build a...

Yup. Next time I see some ill get some hi viz orange gorilla tape and wrap a couple of feet of that around the things. Always handy to have. Atb Tom

Thought about it but the but the ones I saw Would have cost the same as 14 lighters! No doubt I'll impulse buy one one the end! Atb Tom

Had a bimble around a couple of nearby towns, not that I actually need any kit,I'm pretty much maxed out now. Anoyingly, after being reamed for one I picked up another, still with its tags on, Coghlans 2 egg carrier in a charity shop for a quid. Better was a 3XL Karimor wicking undershirt for...

The Bic Maxis arrived on schedule, I'd have prefered to have been able to pick the colours myself, hi vis' rather than random but with only unreliable knock offs available around here I'll have to live with what I can get. I've wrapped a yard of gorilla tape around a couple and home made...

Aye, it was just poor storage by the previous owners that needed a bit of work to undo The microplane ones cut lovely and smooth compared to surforms. The trick is to only use them for finishing on hardwoods or they go blunt faster than surforms. Atb Tom

The rasps have come out of the overnight BLO bath and I'll integrate them into the appropriate too.rolls and drawers when it's cured. Atb Tom

Cheers! Forme they were quite dear 18 quid for 53 odd but I'd heard that particular type were nolonger made and were especially highly rated by old school engineers. Atb Tom

The £5 Eclipse hack sawcleaned up well added the Shinto 30mm saw rasp I heed to scrape the handle on that and oil the handles ofthat and tbe two round microplane ( or copy of ) round rasps. The blade on the surform one is to shot to bother with not when I've several spare blades and a couple...

You'd have to alter the ends a bit to work I think but it's basically what I've cobbled together. If you bent the stub of the cut down handle about 90 degrees you could rig it so a unaltered spreader would work so if you already carry one for hanging a bottle over a fire you could kill two...

Had a good haul at Mikes tool stall in Colne indoor Market, was able to resist another Shef' made drawknife but got some nice bits Will do a pic when they are cleaned up. I'll set the Eclipse No. 40PC to take the shorter hacksaw blades, there's 53 in the box, no rust or owt Atb Tom

Well, it would seam my metal working skill have degraded more than feared and image a pigs ear of the folded aluminium will take a stick handle, it's not worth showing g even as a prototype. It didn't help that the slot on the cut down handle stub is as deep as it's wide. Anyroad I did find...

I was thinking along those lines myself but with aluminium sheet folded since I don't have any tubing that will flatten to the right width. I've the left over sides from the oblong mess tin I chopped up to make the lid for the Dutch Stainless steel tins. Atb Tom

Need to find some heavier gauge wire but the thin stuff is just about thick enough to work. Weighs 130g now. The slots good for 1/16th inch, so can experiment with different handles. A couple of oven bottoms, a pair of eggs in the Egg carrier I got and a heat source and the jobs a good un'...

The single egg pan is 165g and the plastic handleis moulded on. I've seena nice simple tutorial for putting a wire handle on which reduce the bulk no end. Pics when its done Atb Tom

A suprise present from the wife that just arrived in Amazon, a French made One Egg Wonder mini frying pan after she'd seen several vids on You tube of them modified to have folding handles for carrying inside camping pots and knowing of my love for fried egg banjos. I'd be grateful to see...

Arrived this Am so the usual very fast service from Military1st over Manchester way. Off for a bimble so will fit them when I get back. Atb Tom