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Preheating at the hose
Niiiiice! I've been using a WindPro for a while and it's been working pretty well, except that the hose doesn't swivel: I like starting it in gas-feed mode and preheating the preheat...

In Make Your Own Gear » MYOG - A Winter Canister Stove using your Summer Upright Stove and the Brunton Stove Stand
February 24, 12:40pm
Swivel?
As long as the stove will work even for a moment (ie. above -20C with a propane mix) it can be lit with the canister in gas-feed mode, and therefore it will not fireball (unless you open it up insi...

In Editor's Roundtable » Coleman Fyrestorm Ti Stove REVIEW
February 22, 2:08pm
Sooooo...
If BPL still believes that eVent is still the ultimate material for tents, then the Polaris is a top contender for the title of ultimate single-wall tent, right? Or do the new fabrics (OSMO perhap...

In Editor's Roundtable » 2007 Rab Summit Extreme Tent REVIEW
February 22, 1:40pm
Exercise doesn't help?
Wow, Lynn, thanks for the research! That is a huge surprise to me, and goes against my experience. But who am I to put personal anecdote against actual studies? I suspect that there's some...

In Editor's Roundtable » Lighten Your Heaviest Gear: You!
January 24, 8:37pm
What really makes you fat?
I'd have to go with gasoline. Seriously. Look at how many calories that stuff contains. Almost 1100 per 100g. Cut that out of your diet and you're set. Seriously mk II: This a...

In Editor's Roundtable » Lighten Your Heaviest Gear: You!
January 22, 6:10pm
A new review that may help...
Thom Hogan just reviewed the LX3, Canon G10, and Nikon P6000 here: http://bythom.com/compactchallenge.htm The summary: the LX3 was pretty good in raw but had by far the worst internal raw->jp...

In Photography » My first camera?
January 06, 7:36pm
So how does it taste?
There are lots of ways to make coffee. The question, it would seem to me, is less "how to steep coffee grounds in water?" and more "find a few optima on the coffee-taste vs. equipme...

In Editor's Roundtable » Staff Videocast: Cowboy Coffee
January 14, 10:38am
Turbulence?
I agree that on the small JetBoil the difference is likely to be very slight, but I wonder whether in principle a rough surface will induce different flow--perhaps hastening the onset of turbulence...

In Make Your Own Gear » upgrade Jetboil?
October 15, 7:42pm
Simmering in the cold?
Hi! I've been experimenting with an MSR WindPro. I found that it is very easy (and weightless) to invert the canister by (1) unscrewing the connection between the hose and the canister head...

In Editor's Roundtable » Coleman Fyrestorm Ti Stove REVIEW
September 16, 5:33pm
Flare-ups
Thanks for your response! Pictures added to above post. Three more questions: Priming: people claim that the liquid feed propane/butane stoves do not flare up immediately upon lighting the s...

In Make Your Own Gear » Stripped MSR windpro canister stove
July 28, 1:35pm

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