this is worth a look

[lone wolf]

Some great deals at go outdoors for the next few weeks only though

Camping stove £5.99
12 220g gas cannisters £15.00

I picked up a decent GPS unit for £49.00

Loads of useful kit going cheap, worth a look


Hopefully this will link you to the March deal page
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/march-megadeals

Lone Wolf

[itsybitsy]

Blimey - cheap as chips. Cheers for that!

[the-gnole]

I had a look but struggled to find those items you mention, I have seen the gas cannisters for the flat single ring stoves for about £1.25 each, some places in Devon I saw them for just £1 each, Trago mills IIRC.

I really must make the trip to our nearest one and have a look around sometime, but these days I like the carboots and charity shops as I ahve become a tight wad

[WhiteWolf]

Some great deals at go outdoors for the next few weeks only though

Camping stove £5.99
12 220g gas cannisters £15.00

I picked up a decent GPS unit for £49.00

Loads of useful kit going cheap, worth a look


Hopefully this will link you to the March deal page
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/march-megadeals

Lone Wolf

These are the exact items we plan on picking up this weekend, if there are any left.

WW

[the-gnole]

Are those gas cannisters the ones that last about an hour, providing they don't freeze , go on, ask me how I know they freeze

[WhiteWolf]

cos you put them in the freezer?

[counsellor]

hay gnole

Would that be the vaporization of the liquid fuel required for combustion uses heat, that heat is pulled from the surface of the canister
And the absents of heat equals cold
therefore the colder the canister the less the fuel can vaporize, and combined that with a pressure drop inside the canister due to contraction (lots of things get smaller when they get cold)
slows it all down ya

would that be it Ha Ha

[the-gnole]

cos you put them in the freezer?

Nope, cos I turned it on full with a room heater attachment on the top, and the rapid use of gas froze the can

Sadly if the things empty to quick they go solid and stop until they de-frost.

You live and learn though

Spot on counsellor, fortunatelly I was only heating my shed at the time

[lone wolf]

The stove and the gas cannisters are on page 14 of the March specials brochure, lots of great cheap stuff for storing up.

It dosent really matter to me if they freeze or empty too quickly etc, i just put them in the stove and heat some food when i go outdoor trekking, at £1.16 per cannister if it burns for an hour thats an awful lot of food heated in that time !

I didn't expect a scientific analysis LOL

they just seem like a good deal to me

Lone Wolf

[the-gnole]

It is useful however to know that kit might have a problem if it is used in a particular manner, I have three of the cookers and dozens of the cans of gas, but knowing that they fall short of the mark under certain conditions means that I am going to be ready if I ever need to use one to heat my food or drink when no other option is available

I can now prep for a quick change of cannisters when the first one freezes half way through cooking something

A little knowledge goes a long way