Look all over for steel billys, preferably a set, but all i seem to find are aluminium ones and expensive zebra billys.
Any ideas please folks
Any ideas please folks
Steel billy cans
- Thread starter Nat
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try hitch and hike, i think they do some from what i recall
best regards
steve
too late it would appear
http://w01-0504.web.dircon.net/acatalog/cooking_billys.html
best regards
steve
too late it would appear
http://w01-0504.web.dircon.net/acatalog/cooking_billys.html
Tatonka make stainless steel billies. They do quite a range of different sizes as well as sets. They are made of thinner stainless steel than the zebra ones so are much lighter, and also the handles lock in place so it makes pouring easier..... I've used one for a few years now and have no complaints.
Ed
Ed
go to your local cheapo shop and buy a tea/coffee/sugar pot set. i think i paid just over a fiver. drill holes and use picture wire to hang over a fire. they're made out of pressed stainless steel. bargain!
the lid is from a pot of golf tees, same size as boiled travel sweet tins
the lid is from a pot of golf tees, same size as boiled travel sweet tins
another one for tea coffee and sugar pots, but from poundstreacher - 7 quid. reasonable weight pressed ss with lids, just add a wire bail. Ideal size for 1 person cooking, about 4" diameter.
Cheers
JFW
Cheers
JFW
I knew there was a reason i liked this forum over others - everyone is so damn helpful and full of advie 
Cheers folks
Cheers folks
they are avalible from Oswald Baily but the bottoms just have a copper plateing so not the same as a propper copper bottom pan
atb
Duncan
PS saw a 5ltr heineken can in the super market its a ALU Keg which was £13 ish after you drink teh beer should make a nice big cooking pot
Well seeing as though i'm tee-total and on the wagon (11 years next February) someone buy the keg, drink the beer (i won't pay for anyone to get ratted either..) and then give me said keg lol
Morrisons £2.99. The wire was 59p from B&Q.
Everything else was in the shed: dowling for handle; held on by a stainless screw and washer; the brackets on the side are 22mm copper pipe olives, flattened with a nail in to leave the hole for the wire; the flattened olives were then soldered to the can; handle is a piece of microbore copper pipe.
I gave up waiting for a 10cm zebra........none till novemebr
Everything else was in the shed: dowling for handle; held on by a stainless screw and washer; the brackets on the side are 22mm copper pipe olives, flattened with a nail in to leave the hole for the wire; the flattened olives were then soldered to the can; handle is a piece of microbore copper pipe.
I gave up waiting for a 10cm zebra........none till novemebr
Effective. Will have a browse round our supermarkets.
To be honest i'm a cheap git, so the cheaper the better, and i could make one like Wayland's but i ain't that good.
To be honest i'm a cheap git, so the cheaper the better, and i could make one like Wayland's but i ain't that good.
Charity shop special!
Canister - a matter of pence - knob - a piece of whittled hazel held with a self tapping screw - bail - a bent knitting needle!
Big enough for a brew, or to cook my noodles or even a rat pack boil in the bag.
Stove £4.95 - Woolies cutlery drainer with extra holes and a couple of bolts as legs.
It is all rather wierd that I make this stuff as I have a room full of stoves, pots, pans etc.
I guess it is just more satisfying to make stuff....
Canister - a matter of pence - knob - a piece of whittled hazel held with a self tapping screw - bail - a bent knitting needle!
Big enough for a brew, or to cook my noodles or even a rat pack boil in the bag.
Stove £4.95 - Woolies cutlery drainer with extra holes and a couple of bolts as legs.
It is all rather wierd that I make this stuff as I have a room full of stoves, pots, pans etc.
I guess it is just more satisfying to make stuff....
Ta for the compliment
John, I drop a couple of stones in the bottom of my IKEA special to allow for good air circulation. I was thinking about putting some bolts into the bottom like you have, is it a good modification - any probs or tips?
I got a set of these about a year ago, they are very good pans.
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/camping/5039150201727
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/camping/5039150201727
Nice one John, thats the sort of thing i'm thinking about making. Something light, and that will take a naked flame as i've heard aluminium have a tendency to burn through.
However, for the short term i've just picked this up. Still want some billys though
However, for the short term i've just picked this up. Still want some billys though
Try these:
http://www.survival-school.org/Defa...roductID=110&gclid=COvl6YWn5I4CFSh4Egodz16DQw
The big one's too big, but the medium one makes a good hobo stove with the smaller one (14cms) as the cooking pot. All nesting and cheap as chips.
Pablo.
http://www.survival-school.org/Defa...roductID=110&gclid=COvl6YWn5I4CFSh4Egodz16DQw
The big one's too big, but the medium one makes a good hobo stove with the smaller one (14cms) as the cooking pot. All nesting and cheap as chips.
Pablo.
