Just figured out how to make the best camp mug

You could get some fiberglass mesh at the hardware store and epoxy (JB Weld) it around the label. If you look around enough you may find a coffee cup lid that fits too (or use a silicon band) to prevent you from burning your lips. Just sayin…

I think this has been covered before, but fiberglass mesh will shed fiberglass strands, and alot of them.

I do not recommend using it around a mug that you plan to ingest out of directly, for health and comfort reasons.

Not a bad idea and you can stash it in the big one.

A silicone band will do for the top to protect your lips. I guess you could drink hot stuff with a glove on. It wouldn't take much to make a bubble wrap or Reflectix cozy for it.

No need to make a cozy, just use a regular neopreme can cozy.

You could order a pack of Sugru and make custom grips and lip guards… http://www.sugru.com

Andy wrote: "No need to make a cozy, just use a regular neopreme can cozy."

DOH! A voice of reason in the wilderness :)

Got to Googling that idea and came up with an insulator for the Solo style cups: http://www.logocoolies.com/products/cup-insulators.html. The mind boggles….

Hi, I'm new here, but have been lurking for a while…

I have a quick question that may send this more along the lines of a myog thread…

Do you ever worry about cutting your lip or hand on the edge of these cans? Dale, you mentioned a silicon band. Can you elaborate a little more on this? Is it as simple as using silicon, as in what we all probably have laying around for use as a seam sealer, and putting a bead around the rim?

Thanks!

Part of Ultralight backpacking is toughening your body. Your feet should never blister, you should be able to reach into a hot fire and pull out a boiling pot, and you shouldn't have to worry about cutting your lips…

Yes, I kid.

Use a side opening can opener. This lifts the lid and seperates it leaving the rolled steel rim in place, and no sharp edges anywhere (even on the lid that just seperated).

Wow, walk bare foot on sharp rocks, stir coals with fingers, bathe in ice water. Not me I use a small Starbucks coffee cup with lid and insulator. Light and free and just the right size. If I need to make a fire and can use the cup for kindling.

Don't confuse silicon with silicone. Those are two completely different things.

–B.G.–

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Everett, aha! but of course! for some reason i had imagined having to dremel cut around the side of a can or something. . . so simple.

And as for being a tough guy. . . this mug will be a great replacement for pouring boiling water and nescafe right in my mouth and just swishing it about. Now if only I could find a nice neo-air to replace my bed of porcupine quills.

James,

That was likely one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. I may just steal it and use it as a signature…

>And as for being a tough guy. . . this mug will be a great replacement for pouring boiling water and nescafe right in my mouth and just swishing it about.

Ya ho! You betcha. Even better: I've been known to eat Nescafe dry, right out of the jar. ;-D

Stargazer

Some people use a silicone band at the top of the cup so you don't burn your lips when you sip from it. You know those silicone wristbands that have a word or a phrase on them. It also gives you a place to grip the cup to pick it up with out burning your fingers.

Thomas Burns…been there done that…on night patrols back in the c-ration days.