OK..Jim it looks like we are both posters at CCS!!--along with Doc,Kerophile,Motoshi,Rik,Lance and world of others to great to list here...the two burner was on my list after i saw a guy up in Canoe Country use one to cook for a gang of fishermen.great fettling work on that stove.parts are out there but it takes luck and some deep digging to find them.that Swiss canteen is the type i cut down to use as a pot and cup for my PFD ditch kit.i ran a post here about that.i was looking at the connector and it looks like one end of an adapator i saw on Ebay to match it to the Lindal type connector used on most carts now.great post and photos and i'll look it over in a lot more detail in a minute..i think a stove is right up there,or even above,a knife as a prime survival tool....hang in there for stove talk Blast!!
A lightweight two burner like the Coleman Xpedition is just right for Scouts or other slightly larger groups in the outdoors. It's really pretty light -- certainly a lot lighter than carrying two stoves. I really like the darned thing. Set up is a complete snap -- about 10 seconds or less.
I have one of the adapters so that I can operate off of standard threaded canisters should the good ones, er, I mean the Powermax ones ever become unavailable.
I really do like the Powermax canisters. WHY lug around a heavy steel one when there are efficient aluminum ones?
The "X" stoves were developed with an eye towards cold weather, but the fuel is actually slightly cheaper per gram than standard canister fuel, so why not use them year round. I'll have to make a video of the set up. It really is incredibly simple and fast. When you're cold, hungry, and border-line hypothermic, do you really want a tricky to set up and light stove? With an "X" stove, you shove in the canister and turn 1/6th of a turn. No threads to line up. Nice.
HJ
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