FishyFolk
27-04-2017, 08:17 PM
So I went in to town to the new XXL store (5000m2 of sports and outdoors equipment) to get a replacement for my worn out Trangia 27 storm kitchen frying pan.
And came out of there with an Optimus Nova multifuel burner with a Trangia conversion kit. (shoot me pelase!!) :-p
I have been drooling at a set up like that. The Trangia X2 multifuel burner by Trangia is around £139 purchase here in Norway. The Optimus Nova is just slightly less pricey at 129US$.
But Trangia sells a conversion kit for the Optimus Nova, and the Optimus Nova + for 4$ :-)
With a Optimus Nova and the conversion kit I get a stove that I can use separately on solo trips in its original configuration, and convert it for use with the Trangia set when cooking for the familly :-)
Tested both configurations on the porch. And it works great. Making the conversion is just a question of removing the fuel hose and fuel control valve (in order to get the burner out of the pot stand the control valve must be removed), with the supplied multi- tool from the Nova set. And installing the conversion kit, which is a cup to hold the burner, that fits int he Trangia pot stand/ wind screen.
My trangia set is quite old, so I needed to widen the hole to get the connector for the hose trough, but that was like 3 minutes with a round file :-)
I used denatured alcohol to pre- heat the stove, and fired it up with kerosene based charcoal ligther fuel (cheap, and clean burning), and the flame was perfect. No yellows.
The simmer control is not quite up to the standards of my trusty old Optimus 111, but seem to work okay enough, and is worlds better than my old Go-systems stove.
It has two controll valves, on on the burner unit, and one on the hose near the bottle end. The bottle end controll valve is more or less just on or off, so use the one on the burner for simmer control
I'll be back with a propper users review after the summer, and and again after the winter season next spring, hehe.
Here is pics:
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And came out of there with an Optimus Nova multifuel burner with a Trangia conversion kit. (shoot me pelase!!) :-p
I have been drooling at a set up like that. The Trangia X2 multifuel burner by Trangia is around £139 purchase here in Norway. The Optimus Nova is just slightly less pricey at 129US$.
But Trangia sells a conversion kit for the Optimus Nova, and the Optimus Nova + for 4$ :-)
With a Optimus Nova and the conversion kit I get a stove that I can use separately on solo trips in its original configuration, and convert it for use with the Trangia set when cooking for the familly :-)
Tested both configurations on the porch. And it works great. Making the conversion is just a question of removing the fuel hose and fuel control valve (in order to get the burner out of the pot stand the control valve must be removed), with the supplied multi- tool from the Nova set. And installing the conversion kit, which is a cup to hold the burner, that fits int he Trangia pot stand/ wind screen.
My trangia set is quite old, so I needed to widen the hole to get the connector for the hose trough, but that was like 3 minutes with a round file :-)
I used denatured alcohol to pre- heat the stove, and fired it up with kerosene based charcoal ligther fuel (cheap, and clean burning), and the flame was perfect. No yellows.
The simmer control is not quite up to the standards of my trusty old Optimus 111, but seem to work okay enough, and is worlds better than my old Go-systems stove.
It has two controll valves, on on the burner unit, and one on the hose near the bottle end. The bottle end controll valve is more or less just on or off, so use the one on the burner for simmer control
I'll be back with a propper users review after the summer, and and again after the winter season next spring, hehe.
Here is pics:
13861138621386313864138651386613867