Honey stove witha Trangia burner - help please

[Nonsuch]

Help please. I had a go running a Trangia burner in a honey stove yesterday. Quite impressed with the flame and boiling power. When finished I just about figured out how to get the extinguishing ring into the stove to put out the flame, but……how to get the burner out (when cool) without spilling any unburnt meths? You can't really screw the cap back on with the burner in situ.

The best I came up with was to disassemble the stove carefully then remove the (open and half full) burner.

The whole thing struck me as a huge fiddle, by the way, even indoors with warm, dry hands….

 

[resnikov]

How do you use your honey stove with the trangia burner? Do you use 4 sides or 6?

I use 6 sides and sit the burner in the large hole in one of the plates.

 

[Nonsuch]

Yes - same - I was using six sides and using the special bottom plate with the hole in it for the Trangia burner. The special plate is in the second from bottom set of slots.

 

[resnikov]

I put mine about half way up.
Found it easy just to grab the burner (once cool) and lift it out our some times I screw the lid on and lift it out whole.

 

[Jinsin456]

I usually have the burner set at the middle height so that it it off the ground and don't put the bottom wood burning plate in then you can hold it from underneath and screw the lid on. Is it the civvy trangia burner you are using.

Another method would be to only put in as much meths as you think you need then let it burn itself out, you can figure this out quite quickly with a bit of practice.

I've never personally had a problem with this but hope this helps.

 

[Nonsuch]

The problem is I had the top plate on as well (fitted in the top set of slots) so even holding the bottom of the burner (civvie) from underneath you can't get your fingers in to screw the top on. If I don't have the top plate on then my ti mug falls through onto the burner.

Is the answer just to rest the top plate on the top of the walls?

Thanks for all the suggestions so far

 

[mountainm]

Yup. I only ever rest the top plate on top.

 

[resnikov]

Yeap rest the top plate. Easy as.

 

[Nonsuch]

Aaaaaaaaaah. Thanks guys

 

[Shewie]

Top plate resting on the top or try using a couple of pegs through the holes instead.

 

[dave53]

top plate isnt supposed to be locked in regards dave

 

[Opal]

Depends on what yer using for cooking.

 

[Snowfire]

How do I get the extinguishing cap on reliably? Dropping it in from the top doesn't work (I keep missing) and it just won't go through the opening in the front plate.

 

[ged]

I don't know if this will help because I don't have a Honey stove, but with the military Trangia I light the burner, then put the pot holder over the burner. Then when I'm done cooking I lift the pot holder off the burner and there it is, easy to fit the lid because it's just sitting there. You might want to rest the burner on a few stones or something to lift it up inside the Honey stove but I'm sure it won't mind a flame wafting through the hole in the plate.

 

[Paul_B]

Have you tried the honey and trangia burner option in 4 side mode?? I personally think that is best for smaller pots. The other trick in 6 side mode is Ti candy cane pegs instead of the top place to hold the pot. Assuming the pot is smaller than the opening of the honey stove in 6 side mode you can use the peg technique with the burner lower down to hold the pot at the right height above the trangia burner (which has an optimum burner to pot distance like most meths burners) yet the pot is within the honey stove walls. Not sure if this has any effect on heat transfer to the pot but its kind of making the hot air / flames to go around the pot more rather than licking over the pot base then out the sides. I just think that is like the caldera cone in that the pot is within a windshield more to make best use of the burning fuel's heat by heating the base and the sides more. With the pot sat on top the flames and heat just hit the pot and goes out the side more perhaps.

Anyway, these are my thoughts on honey / trangie burner combo. I just think four sides is quite a nice format for small pots. Failing that setting the pot within the stove by using pegs (Ti not Aly of course).