>Posted by: "Mark Verber" verber@gmail.
>Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:15 pm (PDT)
>> MSR WhisperLite Internationale Stove
>> MSR Fuel Bottle
>This is a fine stove if you are cooking a lot melting snow for water.
They're also good if you're going to be travelling to a country where
kerosene is easier to obtain than white gas. That was the reason I got
an MSR Internationale several years ago. However, in those days it was
still okay to travel with a used camp stove and (empty) fuel bottle;
it's more difficult to take those on an airplane now.
But aside from the heavy duty or foreign travel uses, as others have
commented I find the MSR too heavy as well as too fussy to use. I use a
Giga SnowPeak canister stove now -- not as light as an alcohol stove,
but ultra easy to use and fast fast fast.
[...]
>> MSR Stove Heat Reflector And Windscreen
>Whatever stove you are using you want an appropriate windscreen. You
>can buy one provided by a manufacturer, or make from scrap / recycled
>material. I used to use the MSR windscreen..
>doubled up piece of heavy duty foil and a binder clip. It's a lot
>lighter and cheaper.
Though probably a bit heavier, I've simply been using a windscreen from
my MSR stoves. One question: many of the homemade do-it-yourself
windscreen suggestions involve cutting up a disposable aluminum roasting
pan or oven liner. I've always wondered: wouldn't it be easier,
cheaper, and lighter to simply do what you're describing: take some
foil and double it up (or triple or quadruple or whatever is necessary)?
Why go through all the extra steps and expense of cutting up a roasting
pan?
--MKT
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