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Subject Topic: Trangia Meths Stove
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Personaberj6
17/3/2013 at 4:50pm
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Cheers Hillbillie, that's similar to the one I've just manufactured



Looking more into this sort of thing:




(thanks to http://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.co.uk for the latter 2 pics)


Personhillbillie
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ah i see, must admit i've not seen anything with that sort of format before.

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I imagine it would be ok to put the bioethanol in the Trangia fuel bottle. My reason for asking is that I am not sure what kind of seals the bottle has and some fuels can react differently.
Its the trangia bottle with the new safety valve.

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Personhillbillie
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I keep mine in a 20 year old .3 liter sigg bottle which is not even designed to carry fuel and have never had a problem with the rubber seal so i doubt very much you will have any problems as your bottle has a fuel grade gasket seal.

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Cheers hillbillie, I sort of thought that but thought I would ask. I also have a couple of sigg water bottles which I bought to use on the West Highland Way about 25 years ago! they are bomb proof..

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19/3/2013 at 5:24pm
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lol they are indeed. i do have a 1 liter sigg i bought must be 30 years ago now,ive been using it for petrol for my coleman cooker since 91 and its still never missed a beat or leaked a single drop.

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Here is a picture of my backpacking cooking system.


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Wow did that turn out to be big! lol


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lol mike , ive had to buy a bigger monitor just to see your pic
thats a smart little pot stand you've got there

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seeing that pot stand posted by mike i went on a search..found a light weight stand combo that can be made from material of your choice.
full measurements and directions included here

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i'm new to camping and have got a swedish army mess tin as i was going for weight and its the aluminium one as i'm cycle touring.I have tried boiling water using meths and got the soot on the bottom.Will go to b&q as well me thinks.


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I tried it and was sort of ambivalent about it to be honest, it has some advantages, but I'm not convinced that its much better than the gas stove I use sometimes.

I still remember the look a woman in the local hardware store gave me though when I bought a five litre bottle of meths. It was something along the lines of "You have a BIG drink problem".


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I've got a meth stove made from two carling beer tins, with the pot stand / windshield made from an old sweet corn tin. Which the cooker sits inside. I also have a windshield made of the tin of two tall beer cans simply stapled together and the airholes cut out with a stationery hole punch.

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Thought this might be of interest to those who haven't seen it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3B0b3SHgc


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Could use shock cord or thick laggy bands for different sized canisters.


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