Suggestions for a stove? Under £50 (if possible)

[Midnitehound]

Have you got a link to the cheap butane cylinders? can't quite picture how this works.

Here is a link to the cylinders and a stove they run in. The stove is what you find for about £10 in the Supermarket, the gas is about £1 per cylinder. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-PORTA...521?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item51aaccf7f9

They just rotate into these adapters. The small adapter I linked to locks into place on the cylinder very well, the metal ones stay sealed on top of the cylinder which is great, the black plastic version doesn't, it has no valve in it so blows gas if you try and unscrew the stove from the top without removing the adapter first. These are the best type, great invention:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hot-Camp-...=&hash=item1c36224db2&clk_rvr_id=557038888153

These are rubbish unless they have redesigned them since I bought one:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KOREA-Cam...403?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f2cc58763

 

[Midnitehound]

This sort of butane cartridge lostplanet - the ones that go in the flat "suitcase" stoves. The Adaptors convert them to work on the stoves and lanterns that need screw in propane / butane cartridges

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-PORTA...521?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item51aaccf7f9

Ha, same listing I selected with the example stove, lol. Alright 'Speedy', I was going for the overly detailed response.

You can get an adapter that allows you to fill the screw thread gas cylinders from the cheap £1 butane cylinders, just chill the threaded and warm the cheap one, whoosh, transfer done. Hopefully the whoosh isn't you!!

Here is the expensive version:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Refill-Ad...971?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2d15a183


If you really want to be flash why not run two stoves off one cylinder:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-way-gas...948?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item231afe68cc

 

[Dave-the-rave]

£3 with fuel.

 

[tom.moran]

http://www.sportsdirect.com/karrimor-explore-camping-stove-2012-787168

this, more powerful than than £20 one

 

[Mesquite]

This sort of butane cartridge lostplanet - the ones that go in the flat "suitcase" stoves. The Adaptors convert them to work on the stoves and lanterns that need screw in propane / butane cartridges

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-PORTA...521?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item51aaccf7f9

The one problem I've had with this type of stove is it performs very poorly in the cold.

Basically it's a warm weather stove

 

[British Red]

With the butane it needs to be above about 5C Steve I agree - that's a factor of gas rather than stove - with propane clearly you can go below freezing

 

[nickliv]

Has anyone recommended a whitebox / lynx can stove? Light, cheap, peanuts to run if you get hold of some methanol and there are no moving parts to let you down when you want it most.

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[Midnitehound]

Has anyone recommended a whitebox / lynx can stove? Light, cheap, peanuts to run if you get hold of some methanol and there are no moving parts to let you down when you want it most.

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The Diesel engine was original deigned to run on peanuts, well strictly on peanut oil for peanuts. This isn't actually true but then most of what we think we know isn't either. Of course bio-ethanol is not so toxic to handle or breath. If you get Methanol poisoning then you need to get ratted as quickly as possible!

 

[British Red]

It IS true though that the Herr Diesel based his engine design on a fire piston

 

[Midnitehound]

With the butane it needs to be above about 5C Steve I agree - that's a factor of gas rather than stove - with propane clearly you can go below freezing

How about one of these? It runs on Butane or Propane and is portable, honest!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=321261233984

 

[British Red]

Good price for a boiling ring that!

 

[Midnitehound]

Good price for a boiling ring that!

That is what I thought which is why I now have one. I'm not sure I needed one but what can I say, it was a bargain.

I really must stop going to car boot sales and surfing Ebay.

 

[British Red]

Damned handy for doing jobs outside - rendering wax and fat, making soap, all those stinky jobs!

 

[sam-northwest]

Trangia Swedish army stove

Winner


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[chrisinhove]

Avoid any cheap gas stove with piezo ignition would be my advice. Or alternatively avoid piezo ignition altogether.
I had a GoSystems (lamp) where the ignition failed after 1 day, and when lit with a match, after it heated up for a few minutes it self extinguished where obviously some poorly machined or designed part squeezed off the gas supply!
If you can't buy good, buy simple.