http://www.genuinearmysurplus.co.uk...l/name=swiss-aluminum-volcano-stove/rowid=989
What about these?
Truth is i think we can make more versatile kit ourselves
What about these?
Truth is i think we can make more versatile kit ourselves
kelly kettle
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Sandsnakes I know the idea of a screw cap sounds ideal but trust me on this, folks forget, and that makes it a bomb. It's bad enough when the cork is blown out........and I've seen that happen three times over the years 
I didn't believe anyone could be so daft (ahem ! absentminded) but even experienced folks do it. Fair enough on a water bottle though.
The Swiss volcano kettle is a favourite bit of my kit
I've got two. It's small, incredibly light and very useable. Packs easily in a rucksac too. It's *supposed* to run on stuff like greenheat gel but I just use it with whatever I get hold of............half a newspaper boils enough water for a Ti mug of coffee, but twigs work very very well and feathersticks are excellent.
cheers,
Toddy
I didn't believe anyone could be so daft (ahem ! absentminded) but even experienced folks do it. Fair enough on a water bottle though.The Swiss volcano kettle is a favourite bit of my kit
I've got two. It's small, incredibly light and very useable. Packs easily in a rucksac too. It's *supposed* to run on stuff like greenheat gel but I just use it with whatever I get hold of............half a newspaper boils enough water for a Ti mug of coffee, but twigs work very very well and feathersticks are excellent.cheers,
Toddy
Any chance of seeing pictures of the swiss kettle in action I have a 1pt kelly but would like to see other ones. Nothing on youtube but does have a kelly with a whistle.
Add a pressure valve to the screw cap or just a good popon/off plastic cap.
Any one out there do delicate alloy spot welding?
Sandsnakes
Any one out there do delicate alloy spot welding?
Sandsnakes
That would do it
otherwise just "Gonnae no' "Actually, I'd be interested if anyone could do this to a cap to fit the kettles we already have.
cheers,
Toddy
I would be surprised if couldn't get a silicone bung with pressure valve fitted. Would've thought it was a standard piece of science lab gear.
Or perhaps a bung cut so its more flush with the kettle, so less leverage for it to get knocked out, and put something (braided cable?) through the bung to make a loop to be able to pull it out?
I love this clip, especially when she turns the camera round and you see their vehicle, aint that proper camping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi_HBQornvo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi_HBQornvo&feature=related
mine has sprung a couple of small leaks where the Al has corroded through. Problem is they are on the inside (may be due to wood tar corroding it?) so it is no use as it drips onto the fire putting it put.
a stainless steel version would be cool.
a stainless steel version would be cool.
Jared,
you sound familiar with lab kit, fancy looking around to see whats about. Its a bit out of my area.
Sandsnakes
I quite like the idea of the whistling cap, which surely acts as an audible warning and a PRV at the same time.
It is out of mine too, haven't been in a lab since my Alevels.
But these look like they'd do the job of holding water in whilst carrying it about
http://www.altecweb.com/home.asp?cat=Subcategory2200
Looks like they do one big enough for the flue end as well.
I will try it out and let you know. Best test is just to fill kettle up and let it roll around the floor of the car for a couple of days! If it does not leak after that it never will lol.
Sandsnakes
I will try it out and let you know. Best test is just to fill kettle up and let it roll around the floor of the car for a couple of days! If it does not leak after that it never will lol.
Sandsnakes
Does anyone have any experiance of a UK variation on the Swiss army volcano stove made by Centreforge?
I picked up a set from a box full (sadlly now gone) at a warehouse army stores in Leeds years ago. It has a NSN of 7360-99-977-3147 and a patent, which I did find but have since lost, which means it is of UK origins. The place quite often turned up trials kit.
I've some decent pics of it but I can't put them up as I am a bear of very little brain. I later turned up a small tommy cooker/ tin of jell fuel which fits neatly in the top and it came with a couple of squeeze tubes to refil that.
If some one could put up the pics I'd be very grateful.
On that vague note I also picked up another odd bt of kit, civilian this time, a collapsable chip pan cage. The handle folds in and the whole lot packs flat. One assumes its for straining veggies.
ATB
Tom
I picked up a set from a box full (sadlly now gone) at a warehouse army stores in Leeds years ago. It has a NSN of 7360-99-977-3147 and a patent, which I did find but have since lost, which means it is of UK origins. The place quite often turned up trials kit.
I've some decent pics of it but I can't put them up as I am a bear of very little brain. I later turned up a small tommy cooker/ tin of jell fuel which fits neatly in the top and it came with a couple of squeeze tubes to refil that.
If some one could put up the pics I'd be very grateful.
On that vague note I also picked up another odd bt of kit, civilian this time, a collapsable chip pan cage. The handle folds in and the whole lot packs flat. One assumes its for straining veggies.
ATB
Tom
A point of note: Heed the warning label and only use it outdoors and not in a tent. I checked out my 1 pt Kelly Kettle with a CO meter when burning tightly rolled newsprint and it was pumping out a fair stream of exhaust gasses at a magnificent 983ppm CO. My forge running neutral does creates 4ppm and maybe 60 ppm at full rich.
Here's one going a bit cheaper on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STORM-KETTLE-...kparms=72%3A1298|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318
Tom
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STORM-KETTLE-...kparms=72%3A1298|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318
Tom
