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I've simply used nylon zipties on both ALICE and MOLLE/PALS gear

These work well enough https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/laemplig-trivet-stainless-steel-40176455/ Although they do buckle and warp after a while they work well on top of my big wood stove when simmering stews

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Actual making time was minimal. about 20 minutes all up Using the purchased cup saved time. I made a decent sized survival candle with a home made extra large wick as I know from experience that the tea lights don't actually work all that well here in Oz. On the US form it's been mentioned that...

The book hasn't arrived yet so thanx for posting that. I can see how that works and I can think of ways of enlarging that for group use with an A-10 can. I had to google "Oodlik" but turned out to be familiar with the idea as I do make survival candles using small cat food sized tins and I can...

New girlfriend? Get the biggest tent you can afford; it will pay big dividends in the future. Go the Mk5 and add a porch fly awning too, take chairs and cushions. Take Champagne and some way of keeping it chilled, ditto strawberries and clotted cream etc

Links or pictures from the other book? Still working on my updated Yu-Can. I am waiting on a Titanium cup via AliExpress and a couple of Titanium wire tent pegs from a mate EDIT I just ordered a copy of that other book. Might take a while to get here tho. postage from the USA and Canada is...

I've never used my British cup in the field, my preference being for the one I am used to; but I have used the older US WW2 style cup holder / heater/windshield thingy a few times when all I needed was a warm drink. Past [ long past] experience says that using an external windshield was the...

Interesting Here in Oz we were taught to use our canteen cups in the opposite orientation; I wonder if that makes a difference

And Helsport now make a lot of their gear in China so maybe the quality will slip a bit. When the centre pole of my lavvu buckled in a violent microburst the customer service I received was less than inspiring

I have the Varanger 12-14 and use the dedicated Helsport stove. But that stove is very heavy and not really suited to human powered travel, also I find Helsports stated capacity optimistic for sleeping [ especially if you need to use a cot] as you say above; but the central position works best...

OK I'll try hard not to die in the next few weeks then. I've actually made one of these before but I wasn't impressed with how it worked but that was simply because the tea-lights I used were substandard and condensation when attempting to melt snow kept snuffing out the flame and steel tins are...

And a very quick update. I've made a small mistake getting the bigger billy. Rather than muck about trying to find a bigger tin can for the outer I am just going to find a cheap 600ml titanium cup and use the tincan size that is easily available. The bigger billy will be used elsewhere or as a...

Necro posting but I just bought a Tomshoo 750ml billy to use as the basis for this and most Australian tin cans are too small to use as the outer. Intention is to use it in my bumbag kit as my regular ski touring survival stove kit is bit too big and heavy for the Mountainsmith "Day" The only...

What's the budget? Because if it's large enough then something made from Cuben is the go. Or whatever DCF is called today. If camo is what you really want you have a plethora of choice if you buy from the USA, try Dutchwear and be prepared to be amazed. Personally tho I would have no problems at...

Yet we Aussies and ANARE have gone to bottled Propane for ease of use and reliability when using motorised transport. Maybe because replacement 45s and the ilk are now too expensive; fetching big dollars now since production stopped

I'd guess reliability and relative compactness. Anything smaller is pretty well useless in deep cold. My understanding [ albeit limited] is that the 45s were used inside choofer boxes made from empty square kerosine tins or nailed together plywood sheets to limit heat loss

Really nicely done. Well stitched I'm a bit annoyed myself that Camp Trails have folded before I could get my US mate to buy and post me a new hipbelt for my own old frame so back to the sewing machine for me

Exactly! So does the plate with the cup shaped cut-out work to brew up faster that just half folding the cooker like we used to do? I don't think I ever actually got a kidney cup of water to ever boil but it got hot enough to make an instant coffee and dissolve army sugar

A question for the brains trust. My old hexi stove died a long time ago and I believe that the old flat style is no longer a British issue item but is still available here. Does the version with the cup shaped cutout in the topper part make that particular stove better to use with the pattern 58...