Big Paul replied:

Truckster
Line up all the 1/2 empty cans really really close to the fire and put the stove behind them ( to help radiate the heat ) and run realy quickly to a store that sells the coleman duel fuel stoves and get one to your liking.
Have had one for 3 years ald love it.
Thanks
paul

Foss replied:

Darwin awards mate ?

Willem replied:

You are supposed to put the can between your legs for a while so that it can warm up.............hahahahaha...silly bugger...don't you know nuthin?.....:o)

Mad Dog (Victoria) replied:

In cold weather sleep with a can for use in the morning.

lazylcd replied:

perhaps try placing them under the bonnet , maybe on the rocket cover for a few minutes??, havent tried it myself but couldnt be as dangerous as putting anywhere near a fire?? could it??

Nudenut replied:

er........ hot water?

Member - Wim (Qld) replied:

Truckster,

Nudenut has the answer but not too hot.
Just luke warm. Close to boiling could produce a bomb.

Regards

Bazza replied:

G'Day Truckster,
I'll tell you a story about a can stove ........ about 2 years ago I lent a mate's 13 year old son, a can stove of mine, to take on a school camp-out. It was about 2 years old and had little use. I had instructed him on safety and how to use it . On the night he was about to use it ... he pressed the starter and the whole thing lit up in a ball of flame. He was very lucky as he only received second degree burns to part of his right hand and arm and a good suntan on his face. It good have been much worse.
The stove was checked out but because of the intense heat, it has hard to determin
the cause, as all the seals had melted. It was eventually put down to a faulty can or stove seal, but neaver proven.
Because of this incident, I will never use can stoves again, as I'm not confident of their qualty or safety.
I continue to use a two ring gas burner and small bottle. It is less convenient than a can stove but totally serviceable, but .... "each to this own".
Regards,
Bazza.

Banjo (SA) replied:

I have two and love them - BUT they are a bugger in the very cold I know - need to have an alternative then (like a campfire !). Re safety - I would never let someone junior near them - its very easy to put the can in out of position and to generate a leak... that part of them IS a worry.

Baz (NSW) replied:

I have a trangia as a back up, haven't you got one from your bike days mate all i used to use when camping with the bike.

Baz.

crfan replied:

Why not pull some coals out of the fire and cook on those ?

GUPatrol replied:

Truckster,

I use a coleman dual fuel single burner unit (no cartridges) and it starts everytime even if I leave it outside and it is covered in snow the next morning. It is often used to thaw out everybody else's catridges until the campfire is up....
In answer to your question, a friend of mine takes two cartridges with him to bed at night, when he gets up in the morning he leaves one inside his sleeping bag and uses the other one, it runs for ten-fifteen minutes before it freezes and then he has to get the second one...

Will

Member - Jeff M (WA) replied:

I always have and still use a 1L or 2L gas bottle with a primus burner on top. Simple, Quick, realitvly light and it has never (touch wood) let me down. I keep both bottles in the car (they are only small) and one is always full, that way you never have to worry. If one runs out even 1L on a burner like that would last AGES. Just fill the empty when you get back to town.

Rick Blaine replied:

Having seen the damage one of those cans does when it inadvertently falls into a camp fire I'm amazed that the community doogooders have not had them banned!! Along with all LPG bottles etc....The temperance movement will want to ban Trangias.. and the greenies go very pale around the gills when you suggest a camp fire...No doubt the " friends of the sun" would take a very dim view of solar showers wasting all that sunshine dont tell them I had a little stirling cycle hot air engine that silently ran a small 12 volt generator all from a 30 cm parabolic reflector....

Member - John (Vic) replied:

Truckster what were you doing up the High Country on the Weekend, you said last week that every man and his dog was going to be there ?
Where did you end up anyway ?