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we have one of those little blue camping stoves, is there such a thing as a gadget/stand you can place overtop to sit things on that is more stable? Sorta like the old stand you used to have a bunsen burner under?
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| Not from a camping shop (modern stoves are more stable) but I expect you could find or make something that would do the job, or get someone to make one. In fact one of the chemistry-lab tripods you mentioned would probably do fine.
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| If you mean a ring with three legs, there are several options. It`s not that hard to make one yourself if you have easy access to materials and tools. You can import vintage fire-tripods from e.g. Japan, for prices that are not unfair, until you start calculating the cost of shipping cast iron. Or you can scour the market for lab surplus. I would recommend building your own. Simply bolt some flatfooted legs to a sturdy metal ring (at least two bolts a leg, of course, so that they won`t turn). That way you can also incorporate a windshield (if you don`t wish to work sheet metal, you can use an old paintcan or something), because the other big problem with the older stoves is that most of the heat of the flame never reaches the pan. Of course, once you have a tripod, you may be tempted to just use any fire and forget about the stove. 
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Equivalently...
Old paint tin or similar shape. In fact a paint tin would be bad because of the burning paint. Catering-size instant-coffee tin, perhaps. You get the idea.
Make holes or notches near top for hot air/fumes/smoke to go out.
Make big holes near the bottom for fresh air to go in.
Put stove (or other fire) inside. Maybe a roll of rag in a smaller tin with some cooking oil, but that might make an awful lot of smoke.
Put pan on top.
Essentially, this is rather like a Trangia camping stove system (do a search for "Trangia" and you'll see what I mean).
There's a risk with enclosing things too much though: I'm sure you can imagine what might happen if the gas canister gets too hot. So make the holes near the bottom really big, and continue them all the way up to above the top of the canister.
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or just go for the blue bunsen style as they are light, small and easy to use, or if your environmantally concious, you could recylce disposable barbeques, just puit wood and lighter fluid on it and light
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Lavlin (7/16/2007)
I would recommend building your own. Simply bolt some flatfooted legs to a sturdy metal ring (at least two bolts a leg, of course, so that they won`t turn). That way you can also incorporate a windshield Ah, Mechano for grown-ups! :-)
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| A heat source is incredibly simple to make. Just clean a small tin, about the size of an egg coddler, pour spirit (alcohol) into it and light it. Tadaa! No wick or nothing needed. If you want to put it on the bottom of a larger tin, make sure you have a) long matches, and b) something to douse the flame once you`re done. (A soup serving spoon will do nicely.) The pro is that spirit burns very cleanly, like paraffine/lampoil, but doesn`t need a wick. The con is that a heatsource like this is inadjustable. Wider tin is more heat, taller tin is longer possible burn duration. Other than that, you`ll have to adjust the distance of the pan to the flame in orer to adjust the heat in the pan.
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| I made a very simple Trivet the other day for standing a small pot over a fiew, you can do the same thing for the camping stove. All you do is go to B&Q and buy a length of L shape aliminum. Cut 3 equal length for the triangle top and 3 more for the legs (using tin snips, aviation snips or hacksaw) the 3 on the top need the corners trimmed where they meet, dont have to be too accurate and can be done via trial and error (easier with tin snips or aviation snips) drill a hole at the end of each top peice, and then use a pot rivet to join. Likwise dill a hole in each corners side and in the top of the legs and rivet them as well. on the legs i also put a washer in between the leg and the top so they hinged so i could fold it away and aulter the height/angle. you can also tidy up the bottem of the legs if you wish. Using L shaped aliminum alows you to use thinner aliminium as the L shape gives strength.
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| I fyou wanted to go the whole way Get Dressed for Battle sell a proper tripod with grill for £35 or so quid, then you get a safe, transportable fire pit.
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