Trangia Swedish Army Mess Kit

[alick]

Point of interest - I've just found that I'll need to replace the pans on my 24 year old aluminium Trangia 25. It worked fine for twenty years until several months ago I folded one of those thin sponge washing up cloths into the bottom of the pan to stop the burner rattling about.

Unpacking the kit this weekend over on Anglesea I was surprised to find that something in the sponge had reacted with the inside pan and corroded it right through :yikes:

I guess I'll be shopping for a new duoSSAL pan / set, but hopefully this trangia should still live to see its fiftieth anniversary ):

Cheers, Alick

PS having recently bought a primus himalaya gas stove, I'm about 99% sure that Trangia's own gas conversion (which is definately sourced from primus) is the same himalaya burner / hose / valve bolted onto an adaptor plate. In this case, anyone interested can buy with confidence because the himalaya has ferocious performance and is the best gas stove I've ever used.

 

[Hjaltlander]

Hi all,

I've never tried a Trangia, Used hexy blocks in the past, but for years i've used a Coleman micro gas stove with a metal waterbottle mug i bought at John Bull in Catterick.

Until about a month or so ago...

I was Reading Trail Magazine and they had an article on a new stove from across the pond called a Jetboil. Basicaly it's a metal mug, with a burner which attaches to it and is stored inside with the gas can when not in use.

Basically a modern version of the old metal cup and gas burner setup i was using.

I bought mine from REI in the colonies, and recieved it with no problems at all.

For quick brew ups, or a day or two on the hills, i think it's going to be the dog's dangly bits!

Hjaltlander

 

[neo_wales2000]

Great bit of kit and its pronounced

TRAN YAR

not Trang E A

I also have a few other stoves including a paraffin primus model 210 dated 1912,,,,, still works great

 

[Martyn]

Great bit of kit and its pronounced

TRAN YAR

not Trang E A

Interesting. How'd ya know?

 

[simonsays]

Interesting. How'd ya know?

Hmm. I seem to recall this trangia pronunciation debate running on several different forums including the uk.rec.walking newsgroup. Someone actually emailed the company and according to the manufacturer its pronounced
tron-jee-a
(Although to be honest I still cook on my tran-jee-a :biggthump )

cheers,
simon

 

[hootchi]

(Although to be honest I still cook on my tran-jee-a :biggthump )

cheers,
simon

Iv got a friend who calls it a tran-jee-a. But i call it a tran-ja. I think that is the most common?

 

[Viking]

Great bit of kit and its pronounced

TRAN YAR

not Trang E A

I also have a few other stoves including a paraffin primus model 210 dated 1912,,,,, still works great

I would say that Trangea is closer to how it sounds.

 

[Gary]

Im with Viking - tranj-ear - for those with an essex accent!!

 

[Stuart]

um who cares what you call it :?: as long as you can intimate to another what you are trying to describe

 

[mojofilter]

I call mine a stove

 

[neo_wales2000]

Trangia pronounced "Tran ya" like Primus is " Pre mus" and Svea is "svaar"

I'm a classic (and modern) stove collector, and the pronounsiation (can't spell) came up in a thread of a stove site I'm on, so one of the members from the frozen wastes recorded a sound file and posted it to the site some time last year to stop the arguement.

I don't much like modern stoves although I have a couple, I love my Svea 123 and Optimus 8R great little burners and of course my Trangia kit, military, original and even a Gelert clone I have.

Take a look at www.spiritburner.com the people there from all over the world have a wealth of knowledge they are only to happy to share

 

[neo_wales2000]

Under a tenner is the rate in the UK via ebay, and you can also get the stainless steel version but they go for about £20+ If you rig up a makeshift simmer ring for the military kit you really can cook a strew on it.

 

[woodrat]

the swedish ones [SS.], run about 10$ over here and the aluminium german ones about half that.

 

[walker]

i have the stainless version of the swedish army stove i just use the pots with a primus omni fuel stove works great stove fits into the pots and along with the fuel bottle all fits into the primus super bag which in turn all fits into the pocket on my swiss rucksack

 

[eel28]

Wow this is an old thread! but anyway, I have a Swedish Army Trangia, but have never really been able to use it - the meths always runs out before the large pan of water boils! However, I can get several boils of the kettle with my Trangia 27 on one fill of meths!