Bag for Snow Peak stove

I have mine wrapped in a bandana in the cook pot. No issues.

Diane, the LiteMax is made of titanium and anodized aluminum, neither of which will rust. The only reason that I like to have a little bag for my stoves is to keep them clean. I make them from cuben, with a drawstring and a flap to keep moisture and dust out. I think the key things are to keep the stove’s threads clean, and to protect the O-ring. I expect that a zipped up snack baggie would protect it just as well. I figure that the same ‘hygiene’ should be practiced with the fuel canister, so I always keep the little plastic caps on them during transit.

Agree with Gary.

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Thanks. Just wanted to make sure I didn’t ruin it storing it my pot with a flimsy mesh bag.

I have a small “kitchen” cloth around the stove so that it does not rattle against the pot.

That is the cloth I wipe my pot with.

I have a small “kitchen” cloth around the stove
Funny about that. I use a bit of a worn-out tea-towel for exactly the same things. The less-worn end.

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I think the velvet bag is to convince you that the stove was worth the price you paid for it.

Mine has rust. Should I have any concerns about it’s future?

Um.
That is rather strange. Are you SURE it is rust and not baked-on gunge? I was under the impression that they claimed it was all titanium, aluminium and brass, but what would marketing know?

Can you take a small magnet and see it the ‘rusty’ bit of metal will attract it? It the magnet is not attracted, could you give the gunge a bit of a scrape to see if it flakes off?

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JP- I’m with Roger, I don’t think it should rust, but no, you should not be concerned about it’s future.  It should work another decade or two if you don’t strip the aluminum threads.

Mine is from when they first came out with it.

I scratched it with a flat head screwdriver sharp edge, then scrubbed it with a dish rag:

Here is how I stored it:

There’s a fuel canister wrapped in paper towel.

Not sure how grunge would get on it. I only boil water and do the freezer bag cooking with it. Never droped it on the dirt.

Oh, I don’t think it was dropped in the dirt. I suspect (SUSPECT) it may have been splashed with freezer bag stew some time and you didn’t notice.
But do the magnet test: that will tell you whether it is steel.

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I can gaurentee no food touched it.

I tried the magnet test, but the top of the burner and wrap that goes underneath are magnetic so it’s dificult to tell.

How very interesting. The Snow Peak web site advertises the Litemax stove thus:
Our lightest and most powerful backpacking stove, the Litemax is made from ultralight, durable Titanium and anodized aluminum for hikers who need to cut ounces without sacrificing boil time.
No steel is mentioned.

However, comparing the image of your stove with the images on the SP web site, we see some curious contradictions. The current SP Litemax burner has slots, while yours has rows of holes. Not the same stove! But not so fast either. Two possibly older photos on the SP web site do show rows of holes in the burner head, while the rest of the photos show slots.

So let us look at the GigaPower stove GS-100. The curent model is made from steel and aluminium, but both my GigaPower stoves are GST-100 models from some time ago, and they are titanium and aluminium. The models have evolved over time.

So I suspect your Litemax is an early model built with steel and aluminium, before they switched (upgraded) to titanium and aluminium. In which case … that may well be rust after all.

My recommendation would be to clean the rust off the best you can and then to always keep the stove dry. The current amount of rust looks to be pretty harmless. I often carry such small stoves in little proofed nylon stuff sacks – the BRS-3000 comes with one, as does the FMS-300.

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