I’ve been mulling over the stove base situation, and kept coming back to the fact that this would just be so much easier if I could use conventional fasteners. So I grabbed a titanium M5 flange nut left over from another project and epoxied that to the base of the canister. I cut a piece of 1 mm thick carbon fiber board to fit the inside of MSR Titan pot and epoxied a trimmed M5 x 0.8 machine screw to it. The base weighs in at 20 g as pictured. Not as impressive as Jan’s printed airhorn base.
The good news is that the base is extremely stiff and the connection to the canister very secure.
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