This year, I have upgraded my winter stove setup (the old one can be found here)
The goal is to build a system powerful enough for melting snow, includes a base so that it can be used on snow and is easy to set up and operate. This setup can be made lighter by replacing the pot and windscreen with titanium ones, but I do not use it often enough to invest into it more.
The stove base is made of thin, quality plywood laminated with aluminium foil. When folded, it fits insides the pot:
Folding wings increase the surface area and support the windscreen:
The stove used is the Primus Spider Express. The legs of the stove fit onto pins on the base and the spring visible on the previous photos clamps it securely:
I wanted to switch the stove on and off easily and without removing the windscreen, so I added a piezo ignition to the stove. The igniter is made from a piezo lighter, teflon-insulated wire along the fuel tube conducts the spark to the burner:
A teflon insulator connects the wire to the rod extending close to the burner:
The windscreen is folding so that it fits inside the pot, loosely rolled inside along the wall. High temperature kapton tape serves as the hinge:
Tape hinge and snaps connecting the ends:
Unfolded windscreen:
Assembled stove and the windscreen:
Everything was made to fit MSR Alpinist pot:
The setup in use:
Windscreen is stored inside the pot:
The base fits in too:
Everything is stored in the pot and ready to be packed:
