Each stove was used as it comes from the supplier. Yes, windscreens should have been used on the Alcohol Stoves and a cook stand with the Trangia. Yet both of these stoves do not come with said accessories so our hope was people would learn something here about out of the box items like these. Each stove held an enameled steel cup with approximately 16 oz. of 55 degree Fahrenheit water, which was the same temperature as the air outside. There was also a five MPH wind blowing out of the NorthEast. Here are the results in order of time, for detailed results of the shootout, please watch the embedded YouTube video below. 1. 4 mins 05 secs MSR Whisperlite International 2. 4 mins 20 secs Brunton Optimus Crux 3. 4 mins 47 secs Snow Peak LiteMax 4. 6 mins 13 secs MSR SuperFly 5. 7 mins 10 secs Coleman Max 6. FAIL Vargo Triad XE 7. FAIL Trangia There is a full write up at the ITS Tactical website. www.itstactical.com
Hoo boy, this was fun. A 1947 Coleman 530 I bought for about 12 years ago and have never looked at (moved the the UK, donchaknow) in all that time. I do not know how long it had been sitting before that, but as the tank was bone dry and odour free, I suspect a good long while. My folks v kindly shipped it over and after a quick squirt of WD40 the pump started to work, but she wouldn't hold any pressure - the O-ring around the filler plug had perished and petrified, so I chipped it out with a screwdriver and fitted a replacement. Filled her with paraffin (as close to Coleman fuel as I've found here - I know purists are going to get upset it seems to be working, see next vid - plus it goes like a bomb in my Tilley lamp) and WHOOSH. There was a leak where the vaporiser threads into the tank, which accounts for some of what happened next, and improperly vapourised paraffin kept shooting up in odd bursts (probably just years of disuse), hence the big orange flames, but see video 2: dismantling and cleaning made it run 100 times better, still needs a bit of attention...
The Coleman Road Trip Pro is a portable barbeque which os easy to transport and goes from folded to cooking in seconds. It has a compact foldaway design to fit into a car. Perfect for camping and the beach.
