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Hi just want to let everone konw i try little tick with my snow peak canister stove
i am sure you all seen the hand warmer you can buy just about any where.It was 15 deg last week where i live the main thing with canisters are they get cold when working i put one of the hand warm er under the canister alone with a wind screen i made for the stove i also sit the stove on top a part of blue from i got from lowes.
The stove boil my water in 3 min not bad for a canister stove at 15 deg. petty sure it will work at lower temp. to what do you guy guy think.
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I did the exact same thing last winter, but the temperature never got below about 28 degrees. Yes, it does work.
Just make sure you activate the handwarmers several minutes before lighting your stove. They take time to get warm.
WHITE GAS baby. Its the only way to fly.
I did something slightly more suicidal.
Last weekend I was on the AT, and it was 15 degrees out. I took a hot rock out from a fire ring. I put my canister on top of my boots, put my filled 3-liter-platypus on top of them, then put the Hot Rock in a Balaclava and Winter hat and put it on the platypus, then threw a fleece on top of it all.
It heated up the platypus, dried my boots off and kept the canister warm all night.
That is entirely too complicated. I prefer pump generator, turn on valve, light match, roaring in 10"
Fwiw: I just bought a brandy-new pump for my 1986 Whisperlite (yeah, the one with the fabric covered fuel line).
Having to keep a cannister warm may be more trouble than pump, prime, and light, and it's certainly more expensive.
So now I have 2 store bought alcohol stoves, about 10 homemade ones, one cannister stove, a wood burner, and one liquid fuel.
(Waiting for microwave or nuclear powered stove, no, maybe solar :)
fiddlehead
12-11-2008, 08:39
A few things i have done already to warm up the canister:
Put it down my shirt for 10 minutes or if it's in the morning, in my sleeping bag with me first.
Hold it in my hands for a minute or two.
Get some rocks so that it is up in the air and hold my lit lighter underneath it for a minute (that one works the best)
put it on top of my buddies dinner that is cooking.
put it near a fire if one is available (the hot rock idea is a good one)
or just wait.
(Mountaineers use these up above 20,000 feet for their cooking/snow melting)
saimyoji
12-11-2008, 08:53
Another idea is to just start walking right away. Walking warms you up, so you can warm up the cannister more, then after a while stop for a hot breakfast.
BTW, I gave up on the cold cannisters last year. I'm going white gas from now on. The initial investment is more ($70 stove vs $40 stove) but the gas is cheaper.
YMMV
Nothing like the sound of a roaring white gas stove in the winter, just the sound of it warms
me up....
Can't imagine all that fiddling around with a canister contraption.
After setting a picnic table on fire, I can't imagine fiddling with white gas. :) I sleep with the canister (not the stove, the canister).