@fingertrouble
Your Lixada mug is surely as good as a Tomshoo mug. Perhaps it even comes from the same factory.
The titanium stuff becomes cheaper and cheaper and gets more and more labels printed onto it. I doubt that one Chinese factory copies exactly the products of the other. I think if the pots look identical they are made by the same persons on the same tool. Afterwards they get different labels and are sold for different prices.
It is of course sensible to read old threads. But we all discover new things and read new reviews, some of us try out the new items. And who works intensively in this "material science" sometimes finds new even more interesting things. I for example nowadays recommend to try out the stainless steel version of my own mug that's sold by Lixada, especially because it's a bit cheaper but also because you surely don't need to stir so often if you cook in it. It costs a quarter of my own Toaks mug, that was the first in this design and was offered a few years ago. The stainless steel mug is a bit heavier though, but you can save the weight somewhere else if you invest the saved money somewhere else.
This forum here has a lot of academic members, and most of them are no students anymore. A lot of them earn very well. And if a well earning man asks me about a double wall one man tent my answer is usually "Hilleberg Akto".
I bought the Hilleberg Nallo 2 when I was a student, and more than 25 years later it looks like new.
But my last purchase was a used German army poncho (of course not my first one) that I indeed plan to use as a shelter for recreational use, and that also looks like new after 30 years in military service.
I bought it for 25 € although I own a much lighter and new slightly more expensive current Italian army poncho and although my Hilleberg tent costs nowadays - with the additional footprint that I own as well - exactly 1000 €.
I have a rucksack that I bought as a student for the same price like the tent. But I usually use a German army surplus rucksack that I bought for 30 €.
Horses for courses!
And if somebody asks me now about a lightweight low budget equipment I will of course not recommend him the most expensive equipment on the world market!
I would tell him how to pack a light rucksack with the most durable stuff that he can get pretty cheap.
A good deal you make if you buy now something that will last you for decades. Such equipment exists and it is very often very affordable.
It's usually olive green or has a camouflage pattern printed onto it and on a little label that's sewn onto or into it you usually find a NATO stock number, and if not, you find the NSN's on the makers site.
Your Lixada mug is surely as good as a Tomshoo mug. Perhaps it even comes from the same factory.
The titanium stuff becomes cheaper and cheaper and gets more and more labels printed onto it. I doubt that one Chinese factory copies exactly the products of the other. I think if the pots look identical they are made by the same persons on the same tool. Afterwards they get different labels and are sold for different prices.
It is of course sensible to read old threads. But we all discover new things and read new reviews, some of us try out the new items. And who works intensively in this "material science" sometimes finds new even more interesting things. I for example nowadays recommend to try out the stainless steel version of my own mug that's sold by Lixada, especially because it's a bit cheaper but also because you surely don't need to stir so often if you cook in it. It costs a quarter of my own Toaks mug, that was the first in this design and was offered a few years ago. The stainless steel mug is a bit heavier though, but you can save the weight somewhere else if you invest the saved money somewhere else.
This forum here has a lot of academic members, and most of them are no students anymore. A lot of them earn very well. And if a well earning man asks me about a double wall one man tent my answer is usually "Hilleberg Akto".
I bought the Hilleberg Nallo 2 when I was a student, and more than 25 years later it looks like new.
But my last purchase was a used German army poncho (of course not my first one) that I indeed plan to use as a shelter for recreational use, and that also looks like new after 30 years in military service.
I bought it for 25 € although I own a much lighter and new slightly more expensive current Italian army poncho and although my Hilleberg tent costs nowadays - with the additional footprint that I own as well - exactly 1000 €.
I have a rucksack that I bought as a student for the same price like the tent. But I usually use a German army surplus rucksack that I bought for 30 €.
Horses for courses!
And if somebody asks me now about a lightweight low budget equipment I will of course not recommend him the most expensive equipment on the world market!
I would tell him how to pack a light rucksack with the most durable stuff that he can get pretty cheap.
A good deal you make if you buy now something that will last you for decades. Such equipment exists and it is very often very affordable.
It's usually olive green or has a camouflage pattern printed onto it and on a little label that's sewn onto or into it you usually find a NATO stock number, and if not, you find the NSN's on the makers site.
