Flashpackers, are you one ?

It dawned on me a few weeks ago when I was up in The Lake District, parked up in Penrith, as I fired up my iPod Touch so I could borrow wifi from some open router, bluetoothed this and that, started charging my mobile phone, neccessitating the use of an adaptor which happens to have a surge protector, and shuffling tunes I downloaded ealier onto the iPod, checking my email, typing this for the Blog, using the earphones I borrowed from my old JVC pocket radio because I left my noise-reducing headphones at home. Then I checked the weather for the rest of the week, logged into Messenger to say hello to the folks back home. Checked the time on my all dancing Casio Pro Trek compass watch, dropped some new batteries into the GPS and some for the camera........STOP I've completely gone over the edge...

Pop can meths stove

Ok I've made my first pop can meths stove and I'm more than impressed with its performance.

It's double skinned and made from the base of two pop cans.

I've bonded it together with 4 minute fast dry liquid steel.

My own little touch was to add four small nails to use as a pot stand.

The stability of the cooker with the nails added is great, better than I could of wished for.

I've not done any time trials for the boiling of water etc, but being a hardened Trangia meths burner user, I got the idea that it boiled just as fast and as hot as my Trangia, with the added advantage of weighing less.

 

Well I'm giving this cooker to "The Duck", as his Trangia diead a death for reasons that only he knows ;-)

He refutes our claims that he was intoxicated and stepped back onto it down the forest, thus crushing the poor thing.