Flat Stainless Steel Pot


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I tried making my own out of sheet stock. I succeeded for a few pots. The welder I used failed after a few. This year I'm going to use a mechanical sealed edge instead of welded. I resorted to purchasing some from McMaster Carr. I have the pots in my grab and run 72 hour emergency kits.

McMaster Carr foil bags

This video was made 2 years ago.


Slimline cooking pot for campfires - YouTube
 
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Interesting!

How about putting a grommet in a top corner so you use a wire bail?
 
Interesting potential! I will give them a try. Are they foldable? Thank's Zelph.
 
Kind of like a stainless steel envelope. Cool idea. How much water can it hold? I guess you could always make whatever size suits your needs.
 
Krief said:
Kind of like a stainless steel envelope. Cool idea. How much water can it hold? I guess you could always make whatever size suits your needs.
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You can make them any size you want. McMasterCarr has different width roll sizes.
 
All I can say is, great minds think alike!

Here's a thread from a while back on another forum (I'm "black arrow" there): http://www.dirttimeforum.com/index.php?topic=544.0. The idea was to have a boiling vessel that would take up minimal amount of space in a kit. I then progressed to ss foil (from M-C) with the same folded edge idea.

McMaster-Carr is where I found the ss bags and ordered some in a couple of sizes. They looked doable for the project, but I benched it at that point (McMaster-Carr is where some of the metal comes from for another project of mine). The grommetted holes appeared to be a necessity as did a "spacer" to help hold the bag open and allow for the highest capacity of liquid.

That idea came from one on this page, which shows my first generation fold-flat vessel: http://www.dirttimeforum.com/index.php?topic=436.15

Did you smooth or burnish the edges of the bag?

I didn't use gloves for any of the work, but it's a good idea.

I was picturing it's inclusion in kits such as the Ultimate Survival Technologies hard-cased kit: http://www.ultimatesurvivaltech.com/ust_website/root/deluxe_survival_kit.html , which I like.
 
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Oooooo! All I would see would be the blood from my cut fingers.
I hate working with sheet stainless with a passion. Cut myself more times than I like to think of. Stainless steel cuts seem to bleed like crazy and take an age to heal too.
 
reptilian mind said:
All I can say is, great minds think alike!

Here's a thread from a while back on another forum (I'm "black arrow" there): http://www.dirttimeforum.com/index.php?topic=544.0. The idea was to have a boiling vessel that would take up minimal amount of space in a kit. I then progressed to ss foil (from M-C) with the same folded edge idea.

McMaster-Carr is where I found the ss bags and ordered some in a couple of sizes. They looked doable for the project, but I benched it at that point (McMaster-Carr is where some of the metal comes from for another project of mine). The grommetted holes appeared to be a necessity as did a "spacer" to help hold the bag open and allow for the highest capacity of liquid.

That idea came from one on this page, which shows my first generation fold-flat vessel: http://www.dirttimeforum.com/index.php?topic=436.15

Did you smooth or burnish the edges of the bag?

I didn't use gloves for any of the work, but it's a good idea.

I was picturing it's inclusion in kits such as the Ultimate Survival Technologies hard-cased kit: http://www.ultimatesurvivaltech.com/ust_website/root/deluxe_survival_kit.html , which I like.
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Yes, great minds think alike. Your links were interesting. Nice work there.

There are names there that are familiar. They used to be on www.survival.com where I spent a few years.

vector001

Dude McLean (Dude...yer6bud/..)

Alan Halcon (1st one to inspire me to make alcohol stoves out of pop cans)

bluedog 01-19-2012 02:01 AM


Oooooo! All I would see would be the blood from my cut fingers.
I hate working with sheet stainless with a passion. Cut myself more times than I like to think of. Stainless steel cuts seem to bleed like crazy and take an age to heal too.
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Ah!!!! gloves are necessary for working with really thin gauge stainless. It was the reason I stopped playing with it. I felt secure with it when the bag was finished but felt my wife would cut here fingers if not handled carefully. Project abandoned. Others here might have different tools for working the material and be comfortable with it.
 
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