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  • #3677999
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    The confusion may be due to the unit name: ‘fluid ounce’ is NOT a weight: it is a volume.
    The old imperial units are a madness.

    Cheers

    #3678000
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    The problem with most fridge/freezer combos, if that’s your only freezer, is if you set the freezer on its coldest, you can’t serve the ice cream – it’s too hard.
    Chuckle!
    Ever tried eating one of the paddle-pop icecreams they serve on some long international flights? I think they store them out on the wing. I have to wait 5 minutes before I can dent one of them.

    Cheers

    #3678001
    David Gardner
    BPL Member

    @gearmaker

    Locale: Northern California

    On second thought, seeing as how I picked up a motorhome a couple of days ago, maybe I’ll take David Thomas’s suggestion and drive up to Alaska this winter and do some field testing at negative temperatures.

    #3678002
    David Gardner
    BPL Member

    @gearmaker

    Locale: Northern California

    @rcaffin: Madness indeed. I hope I live long enough to see the US switch to metric.

    #3678219
    Chris FormyDuval
    BPL Member

    @chform

    Locale: RTP

    But then people won’t have the fun of talking grams, ounces, pounds and liters all in the same sentence.

    #3678221
    DAN-Y/FANCEE FEEST
    Spectator

    @zelph2

    hey @gearmaker put your BRS3000t on top of the BOSS canister and see if you can melt the pot supports. Chances are good you’ll be able to melt them….after all, Ryan melted 4 out of 7 that he purchased, thank you very much Ryan.

    #3689605
    DAN-Y/FANCEE FEEST
    Spectator

    @zelph2

    Alright @gearmaker, what’s the latest on your testing? Are you up in Alaska with your motor home?

     


    @oren
    , any testing up there in your area?

     

    I have a friend that will do some testing up in Alaska this weekend.

    #3689614
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    put your BRS3000t on top of the BOSS canister and see if you can melt the pot supports.
    Chances are zero.
    A propane flame cannot reach the temperature needed to melt titanium. Simple fact of chemistry.

    Ryan’s stoves did not have melted pot supports. Something deformed the bracket holding the pot support, with said bracket NOT even being in the flame.

    Too many BPL members have been using (genuine) BRS-3000T stoves for too long without a problem.

    Cheers

    #3689617
    DAN-Y/FANCEE FEEST
    Spectator

    @zelph2

    weather forecast for Alaska test area, Galena, AK

     

     

    #3689641
    DAN-Y/FANCEE FEEST
    Spectator

    @zelph2

    Ryan’s stoves did not have melted pot supports. Something deformed the bracket holding the pot support, with said bracket NOT even being in the flame.

    Ryan said they melted. Let’s hear what he has to say today. :-)

    #3689655
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    much before melting temperature metal will get soft and lose it’s strength, easily bend

    like the steel beams on the World Trade Center on 9/11

    #3689724
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe


    This is a photo of a (genuine) BRS-3000T going fairly hard. You will notice that only the corners of the pot supports are getting hot. You will also notice the bracket under the burner head supporting the movable pot supports.


    This is the only photo Ryan was able to provide of a damaged stove. The blue line shows where the BRACKET was bent. Note: NOT the pot supports, but the BRACKET. This can only be done by some serious force. There was no visible damage to the pot supports.

    This information has been published once before this, in another thread.

    Cheers

    #3689732
    DAN-Y/FANCEE FEEST
    Spectator

    @zelph2

    That post was made on October 2. Yousa guys are way behind the times.  Ryan never did address the initial question way back when.  Roger did but not Ryan and that’s ok, I think I know why

    You see, @gearmaker was going to be using his BOSS propane canisters that burn hot hot hot hot and he uses a brst3000. He was going to update us on his testing.  I was expecting he would also had gotten the torch fuel from Canada 

    temperature in the test area in Alaska today:

    #3689739
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    I will be interested in what gearmaker has to say about his testing.

    I don’t think the change in propane fraction will alter the flame shape, so the heating of the pot supports will be very similar to what I showed above. But the minimum ambient temp he can work in – ah yes, that will be of interest. -23 F is about -30 C: the BOSS canister should still work at that temp.

    Cheers

    #3689743
    DAN-Y/FANCEE FEEST
    Spectator

    @zelph2

    One ignition test has already been sucessful at -23 up in Galena on Dec. 10

    #3689758
    David Gardner
    BPL Member

    @gearmaker

    Locale: Northern California

    I’ve been in trial the past week. Haven’t gotten to Alaska and doesn’t look like anytime soon. Got the BOSS canisters direct from the US company.

    #3689763
    DAN-Y/FANCEE FEEST
    Spectator

    @zelph2

    This evenings test went well but could have been better. Boss canister cooperated, stove not so well. Temps are expexted to be below -30 on Sunday night for the next test.

    #3689766
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    What went wrong with the stove?
    Cheers

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