Titanium Mug

[Zammo]

I've put this in Kit as it's more of a heads up for the mug, than info on the stove and windshield.

I was tipped off about this titanium mug on BB (Thanks Beamdune). Seemed like a good price to me - £15 delivered. I ordered and it came in a couple of days. Others have reported next day delivery, so service seems pretty good.

I made a Super Cat alcohol stove with a Sgt Rock Windscreen to acompany mine.

At yesterdays Tesco prices, the stove cost £0.29 (Hi-Life Turkey and Giblets) and the windscreen £0.41 (Tesco value oval foil platters, £1.24 for 3).


I've made the windscreen a more snug fit since that photo, and it now boils 0.5L of water in about 7 mins.
The windscreen fits inside the cup in the tiny gap between cup and 1.0L nalgene bottle.

The mugs are good, they get my The handles are very secure (fairly stiff) and don't rattle about like they seem to on my crusader.

Scanker just wondering about the Naglene bottle, where did you get it from and does it fit inside the mug with the lid on?

Thanks.

 

[scanker]

I can't remember where I got the nalgene bottles from - most camping shops sell them. Try Needlesports or Cotswold.

The bottle is about twice the height of the mug - maybe not twice, but it's a 1 Litre bottle and a 750ml mug, so you get the idea.

 

[Zammo]

Hi Scanker.

I tried out my Super Cat Stove last night with a pretty much identical setup to yours in the first picture. But everytime I got the stove lit and placed the mug on top of it, it kept extinguishing the stove. I'm going to try making the holes in my stove bigger to see if this prevents this, but was wondering if you had any other ideas?


Thanks.

 

[scanker]

It needs to be primed first so that the meths is boiling and I found works best if you can put the mug on the top whilst the priming fuel is still burning, then it should keep on burning. HTH. Let me know how you get on.

 

[Zammo]

Whats priming fuel and where can I get it from?

Sorry for being such a noob.

 

[scanker]

No problem. The super cat stove needs the fuel "pre-heating" to work properly. I stand mine on the lid of a baked bean tin (in fact I glued it on with JB weld), but you can use something deeper if you want. This is just a bit bigger than the stove and allows you to put a teaspoon or two of meths in the "moat" around the stove.

If you light the pre-heating meths the flame will spread to the meths in the stove and light that, but the main effect is to heat the stove from the outside. If you place your mug on now, when you can see the meths inside boiling, the vapours are forced out through the holes and lit by the external flames and continue to burn once the last bit of pre-heating meths has burnt away.

A windshield is pretty much essential too.

 

[moduser]

Hi Neil,

Where do you get your JB Weld from, I;ve been looking for some but can't find it anywhere other than online.

Many thanks

David

 

[scanker]

Halfords. My answer's too short.

 

[Graham_S]

i bought one of those alpkit mugs on friday. should get it today
great deal.

 

[moduser]

Thanks Neil

I checked in a small Halfords to no avail but I do have a big one nearby so I'll give that a go

David

 

[Stew]

i bought one of those alpkit mugs on friday. should get it today
great deal.

and there was me thinking you didn't like Ti Graham!

 

[Graham_S]

it's just the right size for my new maxpedition pack.
it'll go nicely over a nalgene bottle.
and when it gets here it's got an appointment with my blowtorch

 

[Shepard]

Excellent thread!

Been tinkering with a cup holder for this mug similar to the Crusader cup holder.

 

[Shepard]

and when it gets here it's got an appointment with my blowtorch

Any chance ruining the cup doing this? Can it be done over an 2500W kerosene stove?

 

[Graham_S]

should be fine, all i'm doing is heating it up until it colours. some guys on BB have done it. it looks good.

there is no chance of killing the mug with this Ti is very heat resistant.

and anything that gets hot enough should do the trick

 

[Shepard]

After a brief meeting with my Optimus 11 EXPLORER I`ve renamed my TI pot to the magic mushroompot

 

[Stew]

After a brief meeting with my Optimus 11 EXPLORER I`ve renamed my TI pot to the magic mushroompot

Pictures please!

 

[Zammo]

Finally got my Super Cat/ Titanuim mug stove combi to work by priming the fuel in a bake bean tin lid. Worked great, thanks for the help Scanker. :You_Rock_


I was going to buy some of that special glue to stick the bean lid to the stove but it was £4.60 a tube, so I used Super glue instead. If it doesn't hold I suppose i'll have to get it.

 

[scanker]

Glad you got it sorted. I used mine properly this weekend on the First Aid course and my foil windshield has started to go powdery and break down. Bad for the windshield, but good for the stove. It's incredibly quick. I'll just have to make a windshield from some thicker foil - maybe by an MSR windshield and cut it up - unless anyone knows of a cheap source of thick aluminium foil?

 

[Graham_S]

try the foil from a disposable barbeque tray. it makes a good windshield.