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TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.Convert 1500g Trangia to 250g Trangia for $17
Sun 21 Oct, 2007 2:23 pm
I've had a large size Trangia for about 20 years, and it's been great. I usually walk with other people, and sometimes have to cook for 4. The large Trangia (plus a wok) means I can do all this with only one stove, which means that somebody else can carry the tent!
However, I do walk solo occasionally, and get sick of lugging around the 1.5 kg stove and kit everywhere I go. So last week I bought the base (ie, windshield/base piece) for the mini Trangia for $11, and this week I bought a billy that it just fits into nicely, and which will just sit on top of it. It is a cheap $6 billy that is just big enough for one. (Note, there are 3 sizes of Trangia, the large and small sizes are almost identical in design apart from their size; the mini has a completely different design for the stand and has no windshield to speak of).
Total conversion price: $17... not bad, I reckon! Now I can choose to take the large or the tiny cooking kit depending on if I'm catering for only one or for two to four. The one burner will fit nicely into both kits.
When I grab the burner from my large Trangia, and the prondonicles (old friend's name for the pot grips), the total weight of my new stove, including pot, lid, grips and all, now comes to 250g. That one sixth of the weight I started with! And a fair bit smaller in volume too.
Here's all the bits included in that 250g:
This is what it all looks like packed up:
Comparison with my usual large cooking kit:
However, I do walk solo occasionally, and get sick of lugging around the 1.5 kg stove and kit everywhere I go. So last week I bought the base (ie, windshield/base piece) for the mini Trangia for $11, and this week I bought a billy that it just fits into nicely, and which will just sit on top of it. It is a cheap $6 billy that is just big enough for one. (Note, there are 3 sizes of Trangia, the large and small sizes are almost identical in design apart from their size; the mini has a completely different design for the stand and has no windshield to speak of).
Total conversion price: $17... not bad, I reckon! Now I can choose to take the large or the tiny cooking kit depending on if I'm catering for only one or for two to four. The one burner will fit nicely into both kits.
When I grab the burner from my large Trangia, and the prondonicles (old friend's name for the pot grips), the total weight of my new stove, including pot, lid, grips and all, now comes to 250g. That one sixth of the weight I started with! And a fair bit smaller in volume too.
Here's all the bits included in that 250g:
This is what it all looks like packed up:
Comparison with my usual large cooking kit:
Re: Convert 1500g Trangia to 250g Trangia for $17
Sat 04 Sep, 2010 1:52 am
hey Nik you got me interested... but i cant see the pics / link not workin? Damn Murphy...
Re: Convert 1500g Trangia to 250g Trangia for $17
Sat 04 Sep, 2010 2:41 pm
Sorry, Liam. I no longer have any copies of these photos. 
In any case, I've since converted the large Tangia to gas, and replaced the small kit with a Kovea Supalite stove and Snow Peak titanium pots. Even better still! (But a lot more expensive).
In any case, I've since converted the large Tangia to gas, and replaced the small kit with a Kovea Supalite stove and Snow Peak titanium pots. Even better still! (But a lot more expensive).
Re: Convert 1500g Trangia to 250g Trangia for $17
Sat 04 Sep, 2010 7:16 pm
SPONDONICKLES are what we used to call them
Re: Convert 1500g Trangia to 250g Trangia for $17
Tue 07 Sep, 2010 7:06 pm
That's what I call 'em too (though I didn't know the word had a k - some people I walk with think it's a joke name....now I have proof that I haven't made it up! What do you call them now? 'Pot gripper thingys'?
Re: Convert 1500g Trangia to 250g Trangia for $17
Wed 08 Sep, 2010 8:41 pm
another vote for spondonicles
Re: Convert 1500g Trangia to 250g Trangia for $17
Thu 09 Sep, 2010 8:40 am
Feel free to add it to the wiki: http://bushwalk.com/wiki/index.php?titl ... ction=edit
Re: Convert 1500g Trangia to 250g Trangia for $17
Thu 09 Sep, 2010 7:26 pm
Surely that's a Spike Milligna special? Although I think he used the word to refer to something very different . . .
Re: Convert 1500g Trangia to 250g Trangia for $17
Thu 09 Sep, 2010 8:43 pm
This meaning for the word spondonicles is from the 'Urban Dictionary' - so it must be true! -
Australian slang for pot-holders, especially the kind that come with portable metho stoves (like a Trangia).
Bob: This campfire's a beauty! Whack the soup on! Wait, Davo, did you bring your spondonicles?
Davo: I thought you were bringing the spondonicles!
Bob: How are we going to pick up our pots now?!
Australian slang for pot-holders, especially the kind that come with portable metho stoves (like a Trangia).
Bob: This campfire's a beauty! Whack the soup on! Wait, Davo, did you bring your spondonicles?
Davo: I thought you were bringing the spondonicles!
Bob: How are we going to pick up our pots now?!
Re: Convert 1500g Trangia to 250g Trangia for $17
Thu 09 Sep, 2010 8:50 pm
Yep always been spondonicles to me.
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