Show us your stove.

[myotis]

The ETA is very good for a gas stove, the Hiker + is just a Nova in a can, IMHO your better off with the Nova as it packs very small. The Omnifuel is excelent as like the Nova can burn paraffin and naptha it also burns gas. I have a couple and are well pleased with them, mount one in a Trangia for just about the fastest boiling stove going, certainly quicker than a Jetboil.

Can't really disagree with any of that, but having recently found the ETA stoves I have pondered the ETA multifuel as an option.

When I am car camping, I'm less concerned with bulk than convenience and in fact rather fancy one of these http://www.hawkmoor.com/detail.php?p=33. Not that I am going to get one of course.

Graham

 

[littlebiglane]

I've already suggested a meths option, but my original post with the Yukon were from camp sites South Penquite in Cornwall and Cloud Farm on Exmoor.

I also have an email from a Camping and Caravanning Club site where "fires" are banned saying, after seeing pictures of the firebox, they were happy to let me use it on their site. But to be fair fires and camp sites are a bit of a problem

It was for camp sites where fires are banned completey that I bought the Primus Eta. Quick and no hassle. I find meths slow and expensive for camp site use and for camp site use I have for years used Parafin pressure stoves such as these:

I now make the effort to find camp sites that allow fires, and use the gas ETA in emergencies. If I was looking for a stove for proper camp site cooking I would stick with my existing stoves (in picture) or look at the modern versions. Primus Omnifuel or Optimus Hunter+

Graham

Cannot not see your pictures you refer to in your posting No7

 

[myotis]

Cannot not see your pictures you refer to in your posting No7

This is getting tedious, I can see them fine here, but I have deleted them and re-posted the links.

Has this helped, the problem in the past seemed to be related to using JPEGS, but using PNGs seem to fix it, but these were PNGs.

Can you see them now?

Graham

 

[nige7whit]

Some really nice wood burners, but what about some meth burners? trangia type stoves?

I'm looking at them more as I'd be on campsites more often than in the middle of the woods.

If ultra light isn't essential, consider the Swedish Army model Trangia...

They're quite versatile, and very sturdy, run on meths, or hung over a fire. Available in aluminium or stainless steel, they can also store loads of odds & ends in the pot when packed for storage. Mine's like a Tardis, lots of little bottles- Olive oil, washing up detergent, soy sauce, pepper, as well as the burner, meths bottle, pot grabber, firesteel, and LMF spork.

 

[Goatboy]

Ah, which one? as at last count I had something over twenty... OK I think of http://www.spiritburner.com/fusion/index.php as a kinf of stove porn!!! I make and modify stoves and love cooking, though more and definitely more over a natural flame. This is one of my "things".
Goatboy

 

[hiho]

Cannot not see your pictures you refer to in your posting No7

neither can i

 

[myotis]

neither can i

OK, thanks. is there any error message or any clue as to what the problem might be. As I said they are appearing here OK. However....

I have now opened an account at Photobucket, moved the pics there and inserted them again.

Can you see them now?

Can you see the pic in post 20?

Graham

 

[hiho]

i can see the pics in #7 now but not #20 no error message just a white line (i assume thats where the pic would be)

 

[myotis]

i can see the pics in #7 now but not #20 no error message just a white line (i assume thats where the pic would be)

Mmmm, OK I have moved that one to photobucket as well - hopefully you can see that one as well now.

Graham

 

[hiho]

yup can see it now

 

[Gill]

a bit big for the bergan though

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[Argo]

would like to post a pic but cannot locate any "manage attatcments" button

Help please

 

[littlebiglane]

would like to post a pic but cannot locate any "manage attatcments" button

Help please

Use a photo-hosting site such as photobucket then post the IMG tagged links across into our posting.

 

[myotis]

yup can see it now

Thanks, maybe this is the answer then. I will use photobucket instead of picasa, but the last couple of times this has happened the picasa ones did eventually appear. I think - at least people stopped complaining.

Graham

 

[rik_uk3]

Can't really disagree with any of that, but having recently found the ETA stoves I have pondered the ETA multifuel as an option.

When I am car camping, I'm less concerned with bulk than convenience and in fact rather fancy one of these http://www.hawkmoor.com/detail.php?p=33. Not that I am going to get one of course.

Graham

The Hawkmore is just another Nova in a can like the Hiker+ If you want that type of stove go for an Optimus 111T, like the Nova it burns paraffin and naptha but also meths and can be had for about £30 on eBay. The 111T also has a hotter burner unit and is perhaps my favourite model of stove.

Here is a 111T burner mounted in a Trangia clone, works very well

Going back to the Primus Omnifuel; shop around and you can get one for about £100 which sounds like a lot of money, but when you think of its versitility (burns liquid fuel and gas), high power output, great simmer flame, much cheaper than gas to run, folds up very small and can be easily mounted in a proper Trangia, its great value for money (plus it will truly last your lifetime). Not talking as a stove collector here but as someone who wants a high performance four season, any temperature/altitude stove then I would have to say this is the one to go for.

 

[myotis]

The Hawkmore is just another Nova in a can like the Hiker+ If you want that type of stove go for an Optimus 111T, like the Nova it burns paraffin and naptha but also meths and can be had for about £30 on eBay. The 111T also has a hotter burner unit and is perhaps my favourite model of stove.

Mmmm, I now realise that my pictures weren't showing, which they now are, and you can now see that the picture of the stoves I use are a 111T and primus 210. and in fact a 96 not shown in this picture.

However, I now realise that the Hawkmoor wasn't what I thought it was. The model I was thinking of stiil uses the optimus parts but built into a rigid box, so you just lift the lid and liht the stove, no fuel tank to fold out.

I know its a tiny tiny inconvenience, but I find the folding tank a bit awkward on rough ground. I realise this isn't a problem with the Nova, and indeed if I were really in the market for a new stove it would be the Nova or omnifuel I would be buying.

But I still fancy this other stove that I can't remember the name of OR an Army No12.

You know the stove I mean, they were built for relief operations, stainless steel casing and I think built in Dorset, but using Optimus Nova/hiker parts. I'm not sure you if you can still buy them.

Graham

 

[johnboy]

You know the stove I mean, they were built for relief operations, stainless steel casing and I think built in Dorset, but using Optimus Nova/hiker parts. I'm not sure you if you can still buy them.

That would be the Nomad Stove built by Camping Solutions and used by the charity Shelterbox. Built like a brick out house and twice as heavy.... A 111T makes more sense...

Cheers

John

 

[rik_uk3]

Mmmm, I now realise that my pictures weren't showing, which they now are, and you can now see that the picture of the stoves I use are a 111T and primus 210. and in fact a 96 not shown in this picture.

However, I now realise that the Hawkmoor wasn't what I thought it was. The model I was thinking of stiil uses the optimus parts but built into a rigid box, so you just lift the lid and liht the stove, no fuel tank to fold out.

I know its a tiny tiny inconvenience, but I find the folding tank a bit awkward on rough ground. I realise this isn't a problem with the Nova, and indeed if I were really in the market for a new stove it would be the Nova or omnifuel I would be buying.

But I still fancy this other stove that I can't remember the name of OR an Army No12.

You know the stove I mean, they were built for relief operations, stainless steel casing and I think built in Dorset, but using Optimus Nova/hiker parts. I'm not sure you if you can still buy them.

Graham

Sounds (as someone else said) like the Nomad, another Nova in a can, a big can this time You could opt for the 111's little brother the Optimus 8, and you can get Russian clones of these on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=300315017137

I have two No.12's, big, heavy, stainless steel and brass, big fuel tank, fantastic cookers














The large fuel tank means I can do some heavy duty cooking over a weekend without refilling.

 

[myotis]

That would be the Nomad Stove built by Camping Solutions and used by the charity Shelterbox. Built like a brick out house and twice as heavy.... A 111T makes more sense...

That would be the one.

I didn't say it made any sense, just that I rather fancied one

Graham

 

[myotis]

Sounds (as someone else said) like the Nomad, another Nova in a can, a big can this time You could opt for the 111's little brother the Optimus 8, and you can get Russian clones of these on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=300315017137

I have two No.12's, big, heavy, stainless steel and brass, big fuel tank, fantastic cookers

Yes it is the Nomad I was thinking of, and yes it is a big can , but the No12s, well what can I say, I still think they look great stoves.

Graham