diy clikstand for my tatonka burner

[tinkers]

i have been having a sortout of my gear ready for a weekend camp and thought you might like to take a look at a housing i made for my tatonka stove, its made in 1mm aluminium and based on the clickstand, but i've scaled it down and altered it so it all fits in my .9L pot along with the tatonka burner, windshield, firesteel, lighter(just in case) lol! a spork and a cloth to stop and rattling about, all in all a very compact and light system. the tatonka when full holds enough fuel for a couple of brewups and a pot noodle, so its ideal for a day out walking, without the need to carry any more fuel.

this system is also pretty efficient it will bring 400ml. of water to a rolling boil in 4min 30 secs. the windshield sits on three arms, each with two slots in. the inner slot allows a nice snug fit for my pot. and the outer slot allows me to open the windshield up to use my optimus kettle, which i will carry if i'm cooking something a bit messy in my pot. the windshield (aluminium flashing) is adjusted using paper clips which are more than adequate and help keep the overall weight down. i've been using it now for just over a year and its given great service.

[tinkers]

didn't realise you could only add 5 pics at a time, here's the rest of the pics to go with the others. i have some more detailed pics showing the component pieces if anyone wants to have a closer look, just let me know and i'll post them in here.

[bigzee]

Nice work that man!!
Compact,lightweight, versatile (I like the different windshield slots), and it looks like proper shiny shop stuff.

Yeah picture attachments can be a bit tedious, but they are much appreciated here (they paint a thousand words...apparently!)

[paul standley]

Hi Tinkers - like your set-up, very professional looking and well engineered. 4.5 min for 400ml is pretty dam good for a Tatonka so clearly your set up works :-)

Paul.

[tinkers]

thanks bigzee, i'm glad you like it. this one was my second attempt, for the first one i used the dimensions given for the origional clickstand which are posted on their website, and while this worked great it was all just a little to big to fit in my .9L pot, so i set about scaling it down and making a few small alterations, to enable my whole cook system to fit in my pot.
i just uploaded some pics to photobucket so that i can try and embed them directly into this post instead of of thumbnails, here's hoping it works. if so here's the components laid out ready for assembly.

http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x456/tinkers64/components1.jpg


Nice work that man!!
Compact,lightweight, versatile (I like the different windshield slots), and it looks like proper shiny shop stuff.

Yeah picture attachments can be a bit tedious, but they are much appreciated here (they paint a thousand words...apparently!)

[tinkers]

hi paul thanks for the comments, i've always liked the origional clikstand but i just couldn't justify spending £35 on a couple of small pieces of stainless steel, or to put it another way the missus would have strung me up, for spending more money on kit. so i figured i'd just make this one out of a small piece of ally sheet that i had hanging around, it was knocked up using very basic hand tools that most people have in their shed, the only exception being an electric scroll saw which was used for cutting out the hole in the baseplate for the tatonka burner. i did make a mock up in card first just to make sure my measurements were ok after scaling everything down. here's the last couple of pics.

tinkers

it takes only a matter of seconds to put together when out
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x456/tinkers64/components3.jpg

this center ring really locks everthing together
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x456/tinkers64/components6.jpg

the small pot stabilizers enable me to use a smaller .6L pot
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x456/tinkers64/components9.jpg

ready for action, now where did i put that damn firesteel lol!
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x456/tinkers64/components10.jpg


Hi Tinkers - like your set-up, very professional looking and well engineered. 4.5 min for 400ml is pretty dam good for a Tatonka so clearly your set up works :-)

Paul.

[tinkers]

i've got just one more pic, this time of the little stove in action late last night cooking up a few sausages whilst out camping last night, i normally wouldn't use a pan this big on it but my son was out with me and he loves sausages so i thought just this once to see how it could cope with a bigger pan, i couldn't use the windshield but luckily it was a very still night. to be honest it was pushing things a bit, normally i would have taken the trangia 27 set, as its much more suited and more stable for frying up.
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x456/tinkers64/latenightsnack.jpg

[basicbushcraft]

great work mate and great pictures

[Realbark]

Very nice mate.