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    Just got the Swiss Ranger Volcano Stove in the mail. Used twigs and a scrap sheet of printer paper. Got it to a rolling boiling in 7min 45sec. Great stove.

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    Yeah and only weighs 15 oz about the same as enough alcohol for a week on the trail. Could have a jet boil at that weight.

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    Looks like a good design, My littlbug junior is a very packable stove and only 5 ounces but it gets black soot all over my cooking pot.

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    It is a neat design but it is aluminum and not designed for wood fires. In my experience it will fail quickly and spectacularly when all the criteria for a good campstove fire come together at the same time. In short, it might melt.

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    I made this stove intending to use it on the CDT. I used soup cans because the aluminum ones my prototype was made from disintegrated in spectacular fashion. I still have this little stove as well as several alcohol stoves I used throughout the PCT. I ronically I am now a devout "cookless" hiker. Still there is something about a wood burning stove, no matter how small, that is comforting.
    Headed in to town.. You gotta rock the down! -fellow hikers mantra

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    Skidsteer is right. It was designed originally (I think...) to work with the Borde stove , another Swiss (not Swedish) stove known as the Borde Bomb , mostly because of its shape but could flare up too. That worked with white gas.
    You can also use Esbit or alcohol but do not burn wood with it.
    (I had one , still have the bottle)
    .Franco

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