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No, the original posting (now edited) was sent from my I-Phone Andy

Hi there. After lots of hemming & hawing I gave in to pressure from the Eldest Daughter and invested in a jetboil last year. However, despite the fact that it's very good (at boiling water) I still wanted the versatility of my Swedish army stove. I wanted to be able to heat water for washing...

And can we stop calling them army Trangia's? Its an insult to real Trangia's. Egad, Sir!!! Such is the talk of an unpricipled bounder, deserving of a sound thrashing with a bundle of wet tarp-lines!!!! If it says Trangia on the base of the burner (like wot mine does) then Trangia it is...

Years ago I got my first military Trangia in aluminium. I’ve since got a stainless steel one (from Germany). I find they’re great for bike rallies. You can bung the thing in the pannier – it’s bullet-proof. You can stash plenty of other stuff inside there as well as the...

A map case would be first choice ('cos I'd like to get out & about in the countryside around here and want something for the maps) But what else would you have for a possible swap?

Right then.... Having had a ponder, I can now make two modifications. I'll include with the stove, a particularly cunning little stainless plate I made, so that you can use hexi-tabs, it has two settable heights. And... I've decided what I want for the swaps! Would anyone like to trade a...

As a part of my space-saving, surplus camping gear clear-out*, I'm offering the following up for swaps. A set of British army mess-tins (dated 1946) A set of three-piece German army mess tins (dated 1968) and a complete Swiss army volcano stove (which I've only ever used as a water bottle)...

After months of lurking, in which (purely due to what I've read here) I have... Become even more of a Trangia nut (military version) - I have two, including a stainless set which comes with me to Bike rallies. Begun making a forge, to make firesteels out of old blunt files (of which I also...