Best Billy Can - Fire Combo?

Diomedes Industries · Oct 16, 2009

What Billy Can system would you recommend - what is the low end, middle of the road, and high ends of these systems?

Help me out.

TF

SpookyPistolero · Oct 16, 2009

I literally pulled this thing out of the mailbox this afternoon, but the size and shape are just what I was looking for. It's the Open Country 2-quart aluminum kettle. It's pretty beefy/sturdy though and the bail 'snaps' into place pretty well. I'm very pleased, especially at ten bucks.

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Bushman5 · Oct 16, 2009

#10 coffeen can, punch two holes for a wilre bail, put into oven and burn off any label glues or linings, remove, coat with oil, bake for two hours until black.

presto billy can, costs about 50 cents of electricty to make.

RescueRiley · Oct 16, 2009

I'm with bushman 5

hollowdweller · Oct 16, 2009

This is my fave

DWK2 · Oct 16, 2009

Mid-priced: Until recently I had an old Sigg 2l aluminum pot that worked great.

Higher-End: I have a Snow Peak 1.4l titanium pot that has performed well for me.

DancesWithKnives

hiwa · Oct 16, 2009

I keep bringing and using coffee cans with coathanger-wire bail.

Cheap? Yup. Leaves me more money for knives

Rockywolf · Oct 16, 2009

hiwa said:
I keep bringing and using coffee cans with coathanger-wire bail.

Cheap? Yup. Leaves me more money for knives

Same here. They work well and if I wreck one, no biggie. Another one can easily take its place.

Katdaddy · Oct 16, 2009

Around here coffee cans are going the way of the dinosaur. I am soooo glad that I have been saving all my empties for years.

DWK2 · Oct 16, 2009

I snagged a couple dozen empty three-pounders from the office where I used to work. Can you believe they were going to throw them out!

Infidels!

DancesWithKnives

Diomedes Industries · Oct 16, 2009

What about the ones that have a little stove that slips around the outside - or inside?

TF

Dannyboy Leather · Oct 16, 2009

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Rockywolf · Oct 16, 2009

What stove is that? I like it!

Loosearrow · Oct 17, 2009

hollowdweller said:
This is my fave

I've got those two except the billy can has a spout like a coffee pot, looks the same. I keep picking up stuff when I see it so I can vary my kit. Still playing.

Loosearrow · Oct 17, 2009

Rockywolf said:
What stove is that? I like it!

Looks like my sterno stove. Works well with the triangia stove in it as well. Folds up nice.

fishiker · Oct 17, 2009

Coffee cans are nice but may become a bit harder to find. While shopping the other day I noticed how few were made of metal. I didn't count all of the brands but only one was in a metal can.

Diomedes Industries · Oct 17, 2009

Okay - this is brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_3xDqzEgzE&NR=1

I will be making one of these.

TF

Katdaddy · Oct 17, 2009

Talfuchre said:
Okay - this is brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_3xDqzEgzE&NR=1

I will be making one of these.

TF

Wow! A lot of thought went into that. I wonder what that puppy weighs?

cuphead · Oct 17, 2009

Bushman5 said:
#10 coffeen can, punch two holes for a wilre bail, put into oven and burn off any label glues or linings, remove, coat with oil, bake for two hours until black.

presto billy can, costs about 50 cents of electricty to make.

any kind of oil?

wildmike · Oct 17, 2009

Talfruche that is a good link. Looks to be an interesting stove/combo. I'll have to make one if I can find a used thermos. Otherwise it'd be spendy.