Clikstand - a multi-use backpacking stove

[MustardMan]

I posted this over on the Busse subforum, where I normally hang out, but it was suggested that this would be useful information to have over here, so I'm reposting it here. Hope ya'll find it helpful.

I've been using the clikstand ( http://www.clikstand.com ) for quite a while now. It consists of a click together stainless steel stove / pot stand, combined with a brass alcohol burner from Trangia. Normally, you'd fill the burner with denatured alcohol and use the thing as a standard alky stove with a nice windscreen.


However, I started wondering whether I could use the base / stand as a wood stove, without the alcohol burner, if I were to run out of fuel, so I tested it out today.

It works!

It has rained for the last two days here, so it was perfect stove testing conditions... I used a couple of new knives to split and shave off some kindling and little bits of wood from the center of larger sticks, and even harvested a little bit of drenched fatwood. I forgot to check my watch until a bit after taking everything apart, but boil time was less than ten minutes after the fire was already going and I added the pot. Not bad, not bad at all.

I decided to use the base plate, but not actually clicked into the stove - just set on the ground below it. I don't know that it helped very much, but it at least gave SOME sort of dry surface to cut down on the moisture in the stove a bit.


My whole stove setup fits inside the stuff sack for the evernew titanium 0.9L pot.

Everything packs very flat inside. Here you see the Trangia alcohol burner, which I usually would use - I'm planning on the wood fire as nothing but a backup to the burner in case I run out of fuel. The side walls of the clikstand are assembled. I will be using them without the base plate clicked in place

My new Bama Clay Active Duty was good for making some fatwood shavings

Tried to light the fatwood with a UST Sparkie, but it was fresh harvested from a soaking wet stump and I had to use a cotton ball soaked in candle wax

You didn't think I'd keep that Smooth Bolt SJTAC a safe queen did you? It was used to split up some of that fatwood, but it turned out to not be very saturated with resin, so not the best stuff.

finally, some fire!

Seems pretty good to me - I'd call this test a big success!

 

[99f250]

Nice setup thanks for posting, come on over anytime.

 

[baldtaco-II]

Only a couple of ounces or so, looks handy.

I use something more crude but I like having the burner windshield as a twig burner too.

 

[MustardMan]

The entire stove kit - evernew 900ml titanium pot, clikstand, trangia burner, and bandana, is 479 grams (16.9 ounces). That's with fuel in the burner (the burner seals and stores un-used fuel).

The brass Trangia burner is 6 ounces - you could cut that to an ounce or two if you replaced it with a soda can stove, but I like the convenience of the Trangia burner.

 

[Toucan Oasis]

Damnit
There goes another 100 bucks.............

 

[baldtaco-II]

The entire stove kit - evernew 900ml titanium pot, clikstand, trangia burner, and bandana, is 479 grams (16.9 ounces). That's with fuel in the burner (the burner seals and stores un-used fuel).

The brass Trangia burner is 6 ounces - you could cut that to an ounce or two if you replaced it with a soda can stove, but I like the convenience of the Trangia burner.

It's quite topical to me that you mention that. I haven't been down the Trangia route in a long time 'cos I prefer gas stoves but something I saw the other day got my interest going again. Now usually I wouldn't touch a product like this with a stick, but the other day quite by accident I came across a Trangia-”type” burner for about £4. It occurred to me that everything that would usually make such a thing crap might actually work for me – If it is a skinny lightweight repro scrimping on materials and pressed from a thin bit of brass it must be even lighter still. Given there isn't much that can go wrong with a Trangia that repro thing may well fill a weight niche between the genuine article and a coke can job.

 

[MustardMan]

Do you have a link to a place I can buy the trangia knockoff burner? I've heard of a version made by lidl, and another knockoff made by tatonka. I'd love to find a cheaper, lighter version.