Stoves - a waste of space!

[scouse]

Its cheap and the fuel is easy to come by in most countries, it doesn't leak and is not flammable in the way petrol/parafin is.

Things must be different were you go... gave up on them years ago as I never saw any fuel for sale outside of camping shops in the UK.

Looking for a multifuel burner for my Trangia for the same reason... Coelman style gas cartridges with screw tops are hard to find in some areas of Europe, and meths/denatured alcohol seems to be vanishing off shelves... so an Omni fuel seems to be the order of the day for longer trips.:unsure:

[davsato]

Its cheap and the fuel is easy to come by in most countries, it doesn't leak and is not flammable in the way petrol/parafin is.

Things must be different were you go... gave up on them years ago as I never saw any fuel for sale outside of camping shops in the UK.

Looking for a multifuel burner for my Trangia for the same reason... Coelman style gas cartridges with screw tops are hard to find in some areas of Europe, and meths/denatured alcohol seems to be vanishing off shelves... so an Omni fuel seems to be the order of the day for longer trips.:unsure:

i havent had my trangia gas coversion out of the country yet but when i do im getting one of those adaptors that turn a bayonet "gaz" type can into a screw on. the gaz style are pretty common

[africajim]

Scouse, I carry an adapter for my Coleman so I can use screw on canisters or adapt it to take clip on camping gaz. Covers me all over Europe.
Agree with the lumps of solidified paraffin! Never seen them around either! But then meths isn't good to come by either!
My mate Steve appeared at the Stella one yr with a thing the size of a tobacco tin, had a small petrol tank and ran on unleaded, personally it scared me shitless and think you would need balls of steel to use the damned thing! When he lit it the roar was like the afterburner on a Tornado,,, DAMN! Even Fiona was afraid of it! LOL!
I'm a Coleman man, similar size to the rocket, works fine, a canister of gas lasts me a week.

[scouse]

i havent had my trangia gas coversion out of the country yet but when i do im getting one of those adaptors that turn a bayonet "gaz" type can into a screw on. the gaz style are pretty common

The Coleman screw type are always easy to find in camping shops in France... but lots of small towns and villages hardware shops and rural garages only seem to stock Gaz stuff , either the click or pierce type cans. Same on a lot of small campsites if they carry them... we are ruined for stove variety over here!

I did see some converters somewhere and was interested until I realised that they were feckin' huge and would take up nearly the same space as the stove! I just make sure I carry a small tin of GreenHeat as emergency fuel.

[africajim]

I found the opposite mate, Camping gaz are a French company and I found they were easy to find, no screw ons to be found! Probably just sods law!
I wanted meths when I was over on Mull, where on earth are you going to find meths on a small island on the west coast on a Saturday night? The filling station! WTF?

[davsato]

no problem carrying this one scouse;

http://www.needlesports.com/Catalogue/C ... VE-EDE-ADV

£11 is a bit steep, but useful if it doubles your chances of finding fuel. ive never not found a shop or site that didnt have one or the other

[davsato]

I found the opposite mate, Camping gaz are a French company and I found they were easy to find, no screw ons to be found! Probably just sods law!
I wanted meths when I was over on Mull, where on earth are you going to find meths on a small island on the west coast on a Saturday night? The filling station! WTF?

sacrelige i know, but trangias work quite well with other forms of spirit, but its tempting to drink the fuel

[Sprockette]

Things must be different were you go... gave up on them years ago as I never saw any fuel for sale outside of camping shops in the UK.

Look for solid fuel blocks in army surplus stores and places like that. Can be found the world over, even in Japan. Among many there is one company called Esbit which distributes this type of fuel for not just military purposes but for humanitarian aid too. http://www.esbit.de/index.php?id=71

I'm sure there are better things out there, but I like hexistoves. Variety is the spice of life, etc.

[scouse]

no problem carrying this one scouse;

http://www.needlesports.com/Catalogue/C ... VE-EDE-ADV

£11 is a bit steep, but useful if it doubles your chances of finding fuel. ive never not found a shop or site that didnt have one or the other

That the ticket the ones I have looked at before had the hinges on to grip the containers... may as well just have had the Gaz stoves.

Jim,
What i meant was the only places I have regularly seen the Coleman style containers over in Europe are in the places like the Decathlon chain and Intersport , the one in Bourg St Maurice carries the best range for those hitting the Italian Alps via Col D'Iseran. It's on the trading estate off the roundabout just as you come down from the Cormet de Roseland.


Surprisingly, I have found the Coleman style the hardest fuel type to find in mountain areas even though it seems to be one of the most popular fuel types for the kind of lightweight gas stoves favoured by walkers and climbers.

[snaphappy]

I've used the trangia succesfully on Czech vodka. I'm sure in would work on any spirit


Sprockette:
I use this type its no bigger than issue mess tins and everthing is there that you need
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Swedish-Army-Tran ... 3a60cf690b


and cost about the same as 3 hexi cookers