Nesting titanium cups wanted for stove idea

[Neil B]

Hi everyone, new Aussie member here.

I’ve been toying with an idea for a simple alcohol stove design, but not being too familiar with all the gear on the global market it may be that this has been done before – or is even already available – in which case please point me!

Basically I need a pair of nesting titanium cups or small pots, with the smaller one just big enough to accommodate an Evernew alcohol burner in storage and say 400ml of water in use. Ideally the set will include a heat resistant plastic lid.

My plan is to modify the outer cup and use it as a windshield – either with the burner placed wholly inside it, or (most likely) by drilling a hole in the bottom large enough for it to sit over the top of the burner. The inner cup will rest on a support on the burner.

All help is greatly appreciated!

[Russell Lawson]

something to consider is there wont be a lot of gap for your flames to exhaust. For $20 you can but titanium rods and stainless or ti foil for a lighter weight kit. decide the limitations of you cook kit ml size, lookup what you 400ml fits into, its on this forum somewhere. might look at toaks website, they have handleless blank pots that should stack well and weight less.

[Ken Thompson]

One mug with foil lid, a cat food can, and some more foil for a windshield. Everything fits in the mug. Money left over.

[Neil B]

Thanks for the replies.

Not interested in cat food cans or foil, I want to make a sturdy titanium nesting system along the lines of a modern compact Trangia – as much for the hobby value of building it as anything else.

I have the dimensions from Toaks and Evernew, but the dimensions don’t really guarantee nesting ability when you take handles into account.

Hoping to find other nesting sets or real-world ‘this fits into that’ accounts.

[Franco Darioli]

Hi Neil,

Are you trying to emulate the Evernew Appalachian set ?

Take a look at the way that wind screen is made and that it sits under the pot not around it.

As suggested above if you don’t have an air gap between the screen and the pot it will not work.

I would just get some Ti foil from Ti Goat or similar , punch some holes at the bottom and a 400-500 ml pot  and that is it .

[Dale Wambaugh]

SnowPeak Ti bowls would be interesting. The bowl shape would allow some flame ariynd the upoer bowl. I would use a couple bicycle spokes for the pot support. Four Dogs makes a nifty Ti lid. The pot grabber from a Trangia 28t works perfectly.

[Neil B]

I’m hoping to emulate the classic Trangia’s wind resistance (and therefore efficiency) by protecting the flame from wind and forcing the heat up the side of the pot in close proximity to it (the Appalachian obviously has none of that). It will only need a few mm of clearance, I doubt that most nesting sets would be so tight as to present a problem.

I plan to do without a separate base, using the burner itself to support both pot and windshield. Vents will be needed in the windshield, of course, either around the bottom face or perhaps in the windward side (or a combination of both). Obviously I’ll need to experiment a bit.

Always felt that the T28 was a bit of a cop-out designwise, and that the classic Trangia design could be scaled down better ;0)

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