Simple Trangia Potstand

[Awasos]

I've been trying to develop tea kit for deer hunting that is lighter and smaller than my other cook kits (Swedish Army Trangia cook kit OR a spirit Trangia with a 12 cm Zebra pot and an ultralight pot stand).

My deer hunting tea kit is built around a GSA Glacier cup or olicamp Space saver cup with a homemade leather cozy and IAWOODMANs style coffee can lid. I used to use a super cat stove but, I wanted something more efficient. Now I use another spirit trangia. I have been struggling to find or make a small pot stand that can fit inside the cup along with the trangia spirit burner to save space during transport. I have used Hiram Cook's 3 nails and I have used a cut up tomato sauce can. Unfortunately you can't use the simmer/snuffer rings with these. Finally, I saw a photo of a wicked simple pot stand that is made of 1/4" steel rod in the shape of a three dimensional "C". It works great is light and stable.
Unfortunately I can't find the original photo so I improvised.

What do you all think??

 

[ezra45]

Love it! That is really a good design. Thanks for showing it to us...

Regards,

ezra

 

[Misanthrope]

Cool... One of the problems I've run into with the Trangia is a simple effective pot stand. A couple of the after market stands I've bought actually act as a heat sink, slowing down boil times.

 

[Awasos]

Cool... One of the problems I've run into with the Trangia is a simple effective pot stand. A couple of the after market stands I've bought actually act as a heat sink, slowing down boil times.

Yea the tomato can seemed to have that issue, the nails didn't but very unstable at times. This one has very little metal to collect heat and transmit it away from the pot.

 

[Dano]

Now that's a Trangia stand I really like, thanks!!

 

[beacon]

How did you make it? It looks like a great option.

 

[Awasos]

I took 1/4 " steel rod and a propane torch and bent it section by section with pliers and my bench vice. If you heat small sections red hot you can be very accurate. Heat bend, heat bend, etc... by trial and error. I then welded the ends with a mig welder, you could skip that step. Be careful no to use galvanized rod.

 

[Looker]

Thanks for sharing, I have some rod that would work great for that.

Looker

 

[wacken]

i'll copy immediately

 

[Capt. Redbush]

That is brilliant! How well does it pack? Also, how much weight do you think it would support?

 

[pat_t]

cool

 

[TripleF]

Brilliant!! Dang . . . you should patent and market this!

 

[Easy_rider75]

Now that is slick piece of kit I plan to get at one point

 

[Pat1973]

Nice and simple!

 

[Awasos]

That is brilliant! How well does it pack? Also, how much weight do you think it would support?

It fits in the cup along with the trangia. Couple of quarts easy.

 

[Carpe Arcus]

What is the height on your stand?

Thanks

 

[Awasos]

about an inch above the top of the burner two in all

 

[cashcow1976]

Nice am going to have to have one thank you