Wind shield for gas stove advice please

[pauljm116]

I have recently got a gas stove (one of these http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/hi-gear-blaze-titanium-gas-stove-p158215) after using a Trangia for a number of years. Just wondering if gas stove needs a wind shield or will it be fine in most conditions - I'm not likely to try using it in a hurricane.

 

[sxmolloy]

Personally I'd still use a wind shield to optimze the stove's performance and save on fuel consumption. Either make your own out of twigs and small branches or buy something like this if you haven't got one already: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sliver-9-...amping_CookingSupplies_ET&hash=item1e72f5cefc

No connection to the seller etc etc...

 

[Teepee]

Even a light wind will rob the heat from the pot, any stove in all but still conditions will need a windshield to avoid excessive fuel use.

Kitchen foil in multiple layers works well, is light and cheap. ATM, I'm using the ally foil that came with my primus stove. Tent pegs or sticks poked into the ground will support the foil in stronger winds.

 

[Shewie]

The large ally baking trays can be hacked up to make a good sized windshield

 

[Kepis]

The large ally baking trays can be hacked up to make a good sized windshield

Beat me to it Rich, tis all i use, works really well and packs down nice and small too

 

[pauljm116]

I was looking at this http://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/primus_clipon_windshield.html. But the baking tray idea is a good one, also the folding one is nice and cheap too. Decisions, decisions. Thanks chaps.

 

[copper_head]

I got this for my fire maple stove, cut it down as its a remote feed type. If I'd known I'd of cut up a ally baking tray as mentioned above, its exactly the same stuff.

Link

 

[Llwyd]

Got tin foil?

 

[mholland]

I was looking at this http://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/primus_clipon_windshield.html. But the baking tray idea is a good one, also the folding one is nice and cheap too. Decisions, decisions. Thanks chaps.

I've been using this for a while and they're great, flip it around and it fits nicely over a 250 canister, and then together they both fit in the primus pot. I'd also recommend one of these to stabilise the whole system when cooking.

 

[rg598]

I carry a windshield made out of regular tin foil, but I haven't used it in a while. The guys are right that the stove will be more efficient with a windshield, but I have been managing just fine without it.

That being said, it looks like you got a canister mounted stove. Make sure any windscreen you use doesn't go all the way down to the ground because it can overheat the canister.

 

[Paul_B]

Bpl-uk has a gd design for a myog shield with can top stoves. It is a caldera cone type that hooks to pot to hang down but only to just below burner. The pot lid still fits and you don't surround the canuster overheating it but still get the efficienxy of the cone. Use foil tray as it's cheap.

 

[Paul_B]

Primus sell a nice shield that works well for a tenner. Fits to base of burner surrounding the burner and lower part of put but not the canister. Then packs round the canister, inside the pot well in some at least.

 

[redandshane]

A windshield of some kind be that natural,home made or specific is necessary

Plus one on the Primus clip on windshield for reasons stated

http://www.backpackinglight.co.uk/product419.asp
It doies the job

 

[PDA1]

Paul B makes a very important point. For a burner on (gas) cylinder/canister stove, the windscreen should be around the burner (and pot) but not the butane/propane cylinder. Overheating the cylinder is extremely dangerous. The pressure increase inside the cylinder can be dramatic if heat is reflected from the total cover windscreen and can lead to the cylinder rupturing, followed by a fireball which will burn everybody within a few feet; severely. If you want to see what a camping cylinder fireball looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKrlNblPZN0

 

[Squidders]

I have a primus clip on wind shield... as long as your stove arms extend to above the level of the wind shield I cannot recommend it enough, it's a brilliant bit of kit and so simple.

 

[Gill]

Is the primus one a little short maybe?

 

[Squidders]

It's a perfect fit for my Primus Micron stove... I don't know if that's tall or short or not.

 

[PDA1]

Here's an even better one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUn9N0q97X0

no accounting for lunacy! As the seargent in Hill St Blues used to say "Be careful out there"

 

[Squidders]

Silly people... amusing but it's hardly PEPCON though is it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVOUgCm5Jk

 

[PDA1]

No it's not, but whoever is stirring a pot over a canister stove that ruptures is going ro spend a long time in a burns unit - if they are lucky. I've never seen a canister rupture, but I have been present when an optimus white gas stove overheated and popped its safety valve. The jet of flame went up a few feet and scared the hell out of everybody in camp. Fortunately, no one was badly burned, but that was pure luck. Since then I make damned sure that fuel containers do not overheat.