A further thought for what its worth! If you could use relatively light rods just to fix the top and bottom together (ie don't extend them to double up as legs), you could mount much sturdier legs on the sides with through-bolts, as Titanium goat do with their box stoves. I can't help feel that this is a bit of a design weakness with both the Kifaru and SO stoves. The last thing you want is the stove toppling over in your laavu with 4 litres of stew on the top because the legs gave way!
Agreed. Ive just disassembled my Seekoutside Stove after its first burn and notice three of the legs had bowed by over an inch. too much heat for the narrow guage ti rods