Stormin stoves Ti Furnace

Shewie

Chief Slackpacker
Staff member
i used mine in wood mode a couple of times on my last trip, burns much better than I thought it would. Been using a 2nd hand ti-tri cone for ages but never had the Inferno cone for it.

I should try and get to Britton Wood again, a nice bunch of lads down there, plus it's only a short stroll from the motor so it's proper glamping do
 

EM-Chiseller

Thru Hiker
Burnt the rivit out of the Base plate and snapped a corner off one of the leafs.. I did have it burning in Furnace mode for over a couple of hours....Norman offered to replace the leaf and rivit for a princley fee and supply a folding diagram to use the bust leaf as an esbit holder... Think I'll pass... Spent enough and now I've used the alcohol stove more I'm not as impressed... It will be swapped out for a speedster type... The woodgas is effective and does what it says on the tin. The hair clip is a heavy unneeded touch and the fuel bottle is okay, if not a pig to fill and doesn't hold enough for more than a couple of days burns unless simmering...
Over all, good but not great...
 

Meadows

Section Hiker
Not great if it falls apart after being used for what it's made for and no free replacement offered!
I've been very tempted to get one but now I'm not sure.
What' the cracking with the burner?
 

EM-Chiseller

Thru Hiker
Just didn't get on with it, seemed fickle to light unless it was Brimmed... The fuel wasn't pre heated but not chilled either... A mucka had a speedster running with his cone and had far less effort lighting his and hitting a boil...
The simmer ring is too gentle... At least with the fancy feast simmer mod you can actually simmer in cold conditions. The Stormin system has all on to maintain a simmer when it's low temperature even after an initial boil...
I'll be testing it further with meths as opposed to bio ethanol and see how it fairs in low temps again... The temperature was around 2° with a zero degree Base under the baseplate... I'd have put it down to just the cold if my muckas wasn't working in the same environment... But his speedster seemed to be tiptop.... Perhaps it's burner surface area? Wick material? Gauze sizing?
 

Shewie

Chief Slackpacker
Staff member
It was very odd watching you try to light it Chis, I've never had that with similar top burning stoves before.
I've got supplies to make you up a monkeyboy/speedster 'esque stove if you want to try one like mine?
 

EM-Chiseller

Thru Hiker
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It was very odd watching you try to light it Chis, I've never had that with similar top burning stoves before.
I've got supplies to make you up a monkeyboy/speedster 'esque stove if you want to try one like mine?
Be rude not to take you up on it.....and relieve stress lol... P's just weighed my full size uco... I reckon I'm going to live with the weight for the safety and comfort rather than wake up inside the most expensive portable fridge I have lol. Cheers
 
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el manana

Thru Hiker
Interesting, on Saturday night I filled my burner 20ml, maybe 25ml (max) with meths, put on cold ground outside the hut in the open (sub zero temps) and lit it. It lit first time with a jet torch. My 900ml pot was quite full, maybe 700ml of water.

It didn't boil and when it went out the water was hardly luke warm.

Tried again an hour later in my tent porch, no wind, a few degrees warmer and it boiled it no problem.
 

el manana

Thru Hiker
I've had the same issue with the simmer ring, kept going for ages but food just didn't seem to cook. I felt like the hole needed to be a bit bigger.
 

edh

Thru Hiker
Same conditions outside as el and my reduced burn Starlyte boiled 600ml easily enough (evernew 600, Trail Designs ti Sidewinder)
 

EM-Chiseller

Thru Hiker
@stormin' has hooked me up a treat with a couple of. Replacement stoves to use with the cone, sprinkled some storminstove magic dust on the base plates and somehow made them look like brand new (cause they are?) thrown in an extra leaf for covering the rivit in case I abuse the burn time again and even made me a sweet esbit holder...

Ill be going out today or this weekend for some boil bliss and will do a video of the purrrty Boils.
Cheers Norman.... I'm chuffed to bits with the customer care... I can feel another order coming on shortly (two new pots arriving imminently)
 

dovidola

Thru Hiker
I too prefer the Speedster (30ml) stove with my Stormin' cone. In lidded mode (storing unused fuel) the Speedster is also lighter, with its integral lid rather than the separate container supplied with Stormin's starlyte burner. In use I find both burners are good, although to achieve the same distance from burner head to pot base it's necessary to raise the Speedster a little by putting something underneath it to bring the height to the same level as the Starlyte. I'm not sure if this actually matters much because I tried it both ways and didn't notice any difference, but Norman had advised me that he didn't recommend that other burners be used with his cone.

Thank you Chiseller for those videos showing the wood gasifier option in operation - really interesting to someone like me who's only ever used other fuels.
 
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