Someone on another thread pointed out to me that it's more stable with the bottle stood in the wire "handle". I've previously knocked in a couple of tentpegs and hooked the ends into the bottom vent holes for extra stability.
I've added a couple of split rings through the top vent holes and with a small lenth of chain can have the whole thing hanging from a branch, though obviously only in calm weather.
I haven't tried hexy but one of my fave standbys, that works well with this stove, is the cheap and cheerful tealight and cardboard. Leaves a residue but not much smell and a lot cheaper than hexy.
Method : Get a tealight, take it out the case, scrape the outside diameter down a mm or 2, saving the scrapings. Cut off a bit of corrugated cardboard a little taller than the tealight case, wrap it around the whittled down tealight and replace back in the case. Tip the wax scrappings back ontop and you have yourself my favourite emergency burner, you can fit a couple of these between the bottle top and cup for transport too if you forgo recycling the scrappings.
Another thing I've added is the plastic top from a tin of CoffeMate, it makes a tight fitting lid. Cut a couple of slots in the edge to accomadate the cup handles and 2 slots on oppersite sides ontop, originally just to let out steam but I enlarged one of them as that allows me to drink without taking the top off. It also acts as a barrier to stop my lips burning as I like to drink staight away. Only used the lid twice and it's not melted yet but can't vouch for it's longterm performance.
I've been a bit warry of using wood and twigs as it is made aluminum.Now if someone made one of a similar design of stainless steel but sized to a Nalgene bottle they'd have a real winner that would probably weigh about the same.
Correction : It wasn't the Coffemate lid I settled on, that fits loosly over the top as does a Smash tin lid, the lid I settled on for a snug fit came from a Morrisons stainless steel bowl set
