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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.

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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?

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.

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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?

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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Roger

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.