I have a good supply of kerosene, I need to get rid of about 5 litres a week! I've never came up with a use for the stuff so usually dump it! (Waste from filter bowls, I service boilers you see!)
Be handy to have a use for it!
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Alun wrote:
no! spare me the custard creams, i surrender! you feeding the 5000 with that lot? its strange how blokes get collections of things, buying kit they already have a perfectly good example of. i have a lot of tents for some reason........
You threatening me with that Optimus dude? I'd take a minute to reconsider if I were you, I'm seriously tooled up this morning, including a few titanium cooking pots and a couple of custard creams.
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africajim wrote:
i could say the old optimus'00' is a good stove, it goes like a rocket once lit but its a PITA to get lit and its a big old brass thing that weighs a ton and takes forever to set up. those that know tell me they are popular in extreme cold places because they are built like a tank and burn better in the cold than gas or petrol.
use it in a stove then, there are a few that use kerosene but im not the one to advise you on a good one having no experience, i prefer the cleanliness of gas(gas trangia best stove ive ever had) or the practicality of petrol (coleman exponent, my previous 'best' stove, and used fuel from the bike so i never ran out).I have a good supply of kerosene, I need to get rid of about 5 litres a week! I've never came up with a use for the stuff so usually dump it! (Waste from filter bowls, I service boilers you see!)
Be handy to have a use for it!
i could say the old optimus'00' is a good stove, it goes like a rocket once lit but its a PITA to get lit and its a big old brass thing that weighs a ton and takes forever to set up. those that know tell me they are popular in extreme cold places because they are built like a tank and burn better in the cold than gas or petrol.
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The old stoves like the Optimus were the staple of high altitude mountaineers in remote areas of the world - the Optimus itself was too heavy.
In the days before gas was available in most parts of the world you needed something that would burn anything that was available. The big problem with this kind of stove is that it is either off or in flame thrower mode; a camp stove that 'simmered' was about as rare as a yeti sighting.
In the days before gas was available in most parts of the world you needed something that would burn anything that was available. The big problem with this kind of stove is that it is either off or in flame thrower mode; a camp stove that 'simmered' was about as rare as a yeti sighting.
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davsato wrote:
Glad to hear it's not just me...its strange how blokes get collections of things, buying kit they already have a perfectly good example of. i have a lot of tents for some reason........
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Magnum wrote:
Not strictly true. I have had experience with finding dead animals further up streams in the mountains and like this year at the camping area by the Refugio at the Stella, some idiots were crapping near the sources for two of the fast flowing streams on siteGood advice Kev.
Plus, a lot of the issues with water are common sense. A clear fast moving stream up high in a mountain is far less likely to be contaminated that a filthy puddle in the tropics.
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This was upstream!
Some of our German friends seem to prefer to trek a long long way to take a dump!
Some of our German friends seem to prefer to trek a long long way to take a dump!
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scouse wrote:
Anyway, this thread needs more pics of camping stoves in action.
Yes, I've heard they once went as far as Stalingrad.:SSome of our German friends seem to prefer to trek a long long way to take a dump!
Anyway, this thread needs more pics of camping stoves in action.
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everyone going to rosedale in september, you heard the man- we can have a mass cook in, or a race to boil a pint of water, how sad would that be?
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