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  • 28 Oct 2023 23:20
    Reply # 13272783 on 1195343

    Just as a little follow up in case anyone is interested. 

    I stripped off all the gas gubbins from the existing stove,  the Mamba fitted in perfectly so I now have a perfectly gimballed alcohol stove.

    Perversely, the yard where I am doing my refit were landfilling some abandoned boats from one of which I salvaged a perfect Origo 3000 totally free of charge. 

    With one of the spare burners, I am planning to create a working oven. 


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  • 23 Aug 2023 03:56
    Reply # 13244392 on 13244310
    Anonymous wrote:

    Here's a heart-warming little clip of a Trangia in action.

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/3238834966355159

    I bought one of these, it was quite inexpensive. When I get a round tuit, I'm going to set up a match-race between that and the Origo.



    Since the Trangia is round then it will work better with the tuits :-)


    The Trangia design is quite efficient for the fuel it uses, since the heat is "contained" with the pot. Now I must test my kelly kettle with a trangia burner; that could be quite efficient at the one job the kelly kettle does.

  • 22 Aug 2023 23:33
    Reply # 13244310 on 1195343
    Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Here's a heart-warming little clip of a Trangia in action.

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/3238834966355159

    I bought one of these, it was quite inexpensive. When I get a round tuit, I'm going to set up a match-race between that and the Origo.

    You've gotta have the gingernut biscuits.

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  • 22 Aug 2023 18:26
    Reply # 13244157 on 1195343

    I picked up one of these to replace my standard gas. Delightful thing from Toplicht called Mambo 2 for just over €100

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  • 22 Aug 2023 10:15
    Reply # 13243930 on 1195343
    Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Something a little more prosaic: pot clamps.

    I'm probably going to stick with the Origo (give it a go, anyway). I'm sad I don't think I've got room to swing it - always had a swung stove in the past, always worked perfectly, cooked many a breakfast while beam-on to the annoying SW chop we get here, waiting for the longline gear to soak. "No worries" they all say, "scows don't heel much, have it fixed and just use pot clamps".

    Well, mine didn't come with pot clamps.

    I suppose I can make something.

    I looked on a facebook page this afternoon called "sailing on a shoestring" and almost immediately found two different types of Origo pot clamp which might just do the trick!


    Last modified: 23 Aug 2023 04:41 | Anonymous member (Administrator)
  • 13 Aug 2023 13:04
    Reply # 13240254 on 1195343

    I also think that the wind shield improves the efficiency of the burner. 
    With brennspiritus (94% ethanol) it burns better (the flame is lower and bluer)….now I know the difference between bio ethanol (100% ethanol) and brennspiritus (94% to 96% ethanol) :)

    ciao Mauro 

  • 12 Aug 2023 11:29
    Reply # 13239977 on 13237232
    Anonymous wrote:
    Anonymous wrote:

    Hi all,

    I was just curious to know how performs the Trangia so I made a boiling water test with her. 
    Boiling 500ml water with a starting temperature of 20 degrees in an open pot of the Trangia set, takes 6:10 minutes and 18,7 ml 100% ethanol.  
    Boiling the same quantity of water at same starting temperature with the Trangia kettle, takes 5:42 mins and 18 ml of 100% ethanol.
     
    I poured 20 ml fuel into the burner with a pipette. 
    Before starting, I let the burner warm up for 30sec. After boiling the water I let the burner cool down and measured with the same pipette the remaining liquid. I waited until the burner and the stove were completely cooled down before filling the burner up and starting the next try. 

    I was able to take the burner in the hand 1:30 min after extinguishing the flame. One minute later I could refill the burner.

    The flame was always yellow. 

    cheers Mauro 

    Hi Mauro, I've never seen a Trangia make a yellow flame like that. Ethanol is obviously much hotter than the brandspiritus I bought in a Dutch supermarket. It boiled enough water, about 300ml, to make a mug of tea in 5 minutes. Does pure ethanol coat your kettle with soot?

    You may be interested to know a 1½ litre Hawkins pressure cooker fits perfectly in a Trangia size 25.


    i have this amazing camping alcohol stove.  Like the Trangia, the support cone / wind shield directs the heat around the mug / pot, which makes it very efficient.  The neat trick is that the cone packs into the pot for travel. 

    the flame is almost invisible, if it is yellow and oversized, it is not running efficiently.  once the Trangia burner gets warm enough  it starts to burn better, perhaps the photo was taken too early.

    i do like alcohol for it’s relative safety and it runs with no noise, unlike a camping gas burner.  

    it would be interesting to try an alcohol burner with a Jetboil type top to see if this is any more efficient.  

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  • 07 Aug 2023 20:13
    Reply # 13237668 on 1195343

    Hi Asmat,

    thank you for the tips! 
    I’ve seen the pressure cooker on Amazon and I’m going to buy some brennspiritus too :)

    ciao Mauro 

  • 06 Aug 2023 18:41
    Reply # 13237232 on 13237204
    Anonymous wrote:

    Hi all,

    I was just curious to know how performs the Trangia so I made a boiling water test with her. 
    Boiling 500ml water with a starting temperature of 20 degrees in an open pot of the Trangia set, takes 6:10 minutes and 18,7 ml 100% ethanol.  
    Boiling the same quantity of water at same starting temperature with the Trangia kettle, takes 5:42 mins and 18 ml of 100% ethanol.
     
    I poured 20 ml fuel into the burner with a pipette. 
    Before starting, I let the burner warm up for 30sec. After boiling the water I let the burner cool down and measured with the same pipette the remaining liquid. I waited until the burner and the stove were completely cooled down before filling the burner up and starting the next try. 

    I was able to take the burner in the hand 1:30 min after extinguishing the flame. One minute later I could refill the burner.

    The flame was always yellow. 

    cheers Mauro 

    Hi Mauro, I've never seen a Trangia make a yellow flame like that. Ethanol is obviously much hotter than the brandspiritus I bought in a Dutch supermarket. It boiled enough water, about 300ml, to make a mug of tea in 5 minutes. Does pure ethanol coat your kettle with soot?

    You may be interested to know a 1½ litre Hawkins pressure cooker fits perfectly in a Trangia size 25.

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  • 06 Aug 2023 17:15
    Reply # 13237204 on 1195343

    Hi all,

    I was just curious to know how performs the Trangia so I made a boiling water test with her. 
    Boiling 500ml water with a starting temperature of 20 degrees in an open pot of the Trangia set, takes 6:10 minutes and 18,7 ml 100% ethanol.  
    Boiling the same quantity of water at same starting temperature with the Trangia kettle, takes 5:42 mins and 18 ml of 100% ethanol.
     
    I poured 20 ml fuel into the burner with a pipette. 
    Before starting, I let the burner warm up for 30sec. After boiling the water I let the burner cool down and measured with the same pipette the remaining liquid. I waited until the burner and the stove were completely cooled down before filling the burner up and starting the next try. 

    I was able to take the burner in the hand 1:30 min after extinguishing the flame. One minute later I could refill the burner.

    The flame was always yellow.

    cheers Mauro 

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