tinkering with my solo cookset

[jonnie drake]

hope that didnt sound too sordid.

I've been tring to improve my solo cookset, see pic below, it works great but when the wind gets up it suffers a lot. I found some tin sheet lying around in the garage so I had a go at making a new windshield. I managed to get the weight down from 280g to 170g, mainly by taking the main pot out of the equation.

older cookset:

new cookset;

I know its not pretty, but its quite effective. 15secs to prime the burner, 4mins simmer time and 5mins 30secs to boil. about 20ml of fuel lasted about 12mins. The pot can handle 400ml of liquid. The outer ring acts as a double windshield without choking the burner.

any suggestions for improvements would be greatfully received, I think I will try and figure out how to make the whole shebang a bit more stable so it will cope with windy conditions.

cheers

J

 

[clive.s]

Looks like a really nice set! What's the boil time like?

 

[jonnie drake]

cheers clive! 5mins 30secs, I've got a wider closed alci burner on the way which will hopefully help too

 

[clive.s]

At sub 200g 5 minutes is not much of a wait is it! I'm trying to figure out how to make an überlightweight shield for my canister stove, good inspiration.

 

[demographic]

Looks like you have some of the aluminium printer sheets that newspaper printers use.

My Mini Trangia windsheild has writing from The News & Star on it cos I used to go out with a woman who worked there

 

[Andy T]

you could always try making another windshield with air holes only on one side or part way round see if that helps.

 

[Teepee]

They sell chip fryer baskets in the pound shop which are made form really fine wire mesh.
If you cut the heavy wire off them and line them with foil, they weigh a couple of ounces at most.
I stand my sooty pots in them when I pack my cookset, and it keeps the soot off my kit. They work quite well.

 

[jonnie drake]

hi demographic, yeh some of the larger sheets had adverts on! one for a phsycologist! lol!

cheers andy and teepee will give that a go!