Titanium Stoves on sale with free shipping $12, $17 and $23.50

[Yuri R]

Monoprice (big name in cabling and adapters) has some Titanium stoves on sale right now. This place sells a lot of generic items branded under their own name, so these stoves appear to be similar or identical to Olicamp and  FireMaple. I have one of these already made by Olicamp and tested it last night – worked fine, so i’m buying another one from Monoprice as a spare.

The smallest gas Ti Stove weights in at 1.7oz which is good for $12 product with free shipping. Last night same stove was only $9 though! They have 4 stoves, but are out of one of them. Remaining are – regular direct attach to canister for $12 , remote canister one for $17, and mutli-fuel similar to XGK and DragonFly ($130+) is $23.50.

Either way, here is the link

https://www.monoprice.com/search/index?keyword=titanium+stove

 

 

 

[Roger Caffin]

That’s the Fire Maple stove I used for my V1 Remote Inverted Canister Winter Stove. A very good price. Alternative to the BRS-3000T.

Cheers

[Ethan A.]

Thanks for posting this Yuri.

Roger, I believe a BPL poster did this, but do you know if the parts from the FMS-118, which is a heavy steel remote stove with a pre-heat tube, can be easily combined with the parts from the lighter Ti FMS-117T, which doesn’t have a pre-heat tube, for a lightweight mostly-Ti remote stove?

 

 

[Roger Caffin]

Hi Ethan

I remember something about that. You would need to Search on BPL for the details.
If the screw thread at the bottom of the burner column matches, it should work.

Cheers

[Yuri R]

I like these a bit more than BRS-3000T which has narrow flame compared to larger head on these stoves. Since most of us are cooking in Ti and Aluminum cups/pots made with thin walls, it can help with not burning food in one spot. of course for those who just boil water it may not mater as much.

 

I thought about getting a remote stove from link above, but decided that I would still probably just use the smaller, lighter, cheaper version that mounts onto the gas canister. Just don’t see much of a point in remote to be honest. Am I missing something in this regard besides some added safety and potentially more stable pot support at the cost of extra weight and volume?

[Roger Caffin]

The flame on the BRS-3000T is not that narrow when you have a pot on the stove. It spreads out. The design is seriously ingenious, although how they got there I don’t know.

For 3-season use a topper or upright stove is just fine. A bit less stable than a remote, but tens of thousands manage that. The remote is designed for winter sub-zero conditions.

Cheers

[Jon Fong / Flat Cat Gear]

I thought about getting a remote stove from link above, but decided that I would still probably just use the smaller, lighter, cheaper version that mounts onto the gas canister. Just don’t see much of a point in remote to be honest. Am I missing something in this regard besides some added safety and potentially more stable pot support at the cost of extra weight and volume?

A remote feed invertable stove allows you to operate at cold temperatures (no real fiddling) and allows you to use a windscreen for improved fuel efficiency. They also tend to be more stable as the pot will be lower to the ground and the pot supports are generally wider the canister topped stoves.  I believe that invertable stoves have a finer thread pitch and makes simmering (in the normal mode) pretty easy.  The BRS-3000T is not know for being fuel efficient, coupled with the lack of windscreen makes it a marginal system (IMO).  My 2 cents.

[Roger Caffin]

I’ll disagree with Jon over efficiency. My experience has been that efficiency is a function of power: as the power goes up the efficiency goes down. As long as the combustion is ‘good’, imhe most stoves have a similar efficiency.

As for the ‘lack of windscreen’ – that is not part of the stove. That is something the user adds around the kit.

Cheers

[Yuri R]

So I’m planning to make a windscreen out of aluminum foil tray (those sold for $1) that would isolate the top of the stove and pot/cup from the canister. it would sit right above the flame control. Should be easy to make and hopefully will increase the efficiency.

[Roger Caffin]

isolate the top of the stove and pot/cup from the canister

That may not be such a good idea. If you are trying to screen the canister from the flames, you may be shooting yourself in the foot in cold weather. Your canister will chill down fast and the stove will stop working.

Far better are the taller windscreens which go around the whole stove+canister, with an opening for access to the valve. These block the wind perfectly fine and allow some thermal feedback. They are also much simpler: a rectangle of foil.

Cheers

[Ethan A.]

Discovered with a quick search of BPL that Fire Maple is already making a remote stove with heating tube hybrid of FMS-118-FMS-117T, called the FMS-117H Blade 2. Weight is about the same as others have reported for a hybrid of those two stoves, as BPL member JC had put together. The burner should perform the same as the wide burner model of Roger’s excellent remote stove as it’s the same burner.

 

 

[Roger Caffin]

I chatted a fair bit with the designer for Fire Maple some years back. He seemed to have the clues about stove design.

Cheers
Roger

[Gary Dunckel]

Yesterday I received my  $12 ‘Pure Outdoor Micro Titanium Backpacking Stove’ ( the package insert calls it the ‘Caldera Micro Titanium Backpacking Stove’) and I couldn’t be happier. It has that wide burner head, and it simmers beautifully. At 1.7 oz it is pretty impressive. It sure looks like a re-branded Fire Maple stove, which means good quality. I just now contacted Monoprice to have them confirm that it is in fact made by Fire Maple. I don’t see this particular stove on the Fire Maple web site, but maybe they’ve discontinued this model. A pretty sweet deal for U$12, I think. It will certainly find a niche when I want to do some serious simmering.

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