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#243228 - 03/16/12 05:13 PM Re: Cheap Deals on Good Stoves [Re: ILBob]
Snake_Doctor
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I bought a magic heat stove at a tool show. Takes over half an hour to heat soup. It looked like a good set up on the box, but it's basicly an oil candle in a stove. Went to buy a coleman dual fuel but all our wal-marts have gutted thier camping gear in favor of more conventional sports gear like baseballs and physical fitness gear.

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#243229 - 03/16/12 05:26 PM Re: Cheap Deals on Good Stoves [Re: ILBob]
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Originally Posted By: ILBob
I see an esbit stove as more of a pretty stable pot stand then anything else. My biggest gripe with most small stoves is that they are not real stable.
Yep to both.

The Kovea Camp 56 is pretty good for a small top-mount canister gas stove.

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#243231 - 03/16/12 05:44 PM Re: Cheap Deals on Good Stoves [Re: ]
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Originally Posted By: Snake_Doctor
I bought a magic heat stove at a tool show. Takes over half an hour to heat soup. It looked like a good set up on the box, but it's basicly an oil candle in a stove.
Half an hour!? Yipes. Thanks for the heads up.

Originally Posted By: Snake_Doctor
Went to buy a coleman dual fuel but all our wal-marts have gutted thier camping gear in favor of more conventional sports gear like baseballs and physical fitness gear.
The thing I find is that WalMart is a) very seasonal and b) frequently out of stock on camping gear, particularly stoves and fuel. I think they are still carrying stuff, but they don't stock much and are frequently sold out. I just stop by whenever I'm by and see what they've got.

Coleman appears to be getting out of the backpacking type stoves business from what I can tell from their website.

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#243233 - 03/16/12 06:41 PM Re: Cheap Deals on Good Stoves [Re: Hikin_Jim]
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Thanks jim. Yup over half an hour. And that's After i sealed the top of my mug witk aluminum foil. Someone mentioned Esbit stoves. Saw a guy at an established camp ground using quick light charcoal briquettes in one. Didn't get a chance to ask how well that worked for him.

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#243255 - 03/17/12 06:35 AM Re: Cheap Deals on Good Stoves [Re: ]
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Thanks Snake Doctor something to try tomorrow. charcoal briquets fluid stove got em.

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#243282 - 03/17/12 08:29 PM Re: Cheap Deals on Good Stoves [Re: ]
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Originally Posted By: Snake_Doctor
I bought a magic heat stove at a tool show. Takes over half an hour to heat soup. It looked like a good set up on the box, but it's basicly an oil candle in a stove. Went to buy a coleman dual fuel but all our wal-marts have gutted thier camping gear in favor of more conventional sports gear like baseballs and physical fitness gear.


I never understood why people put sterno in their kits. I found it hard to even boil water with it much less actually cook anything.
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#243304 - 03/18/12 04:11 AM Re: Cheap Deals on Good Stoves [Re: ]
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Originally Posted By: IzzyJG99
Trouble with Wal-Mart stores is they track their inventory quite closely these days. If your store isn't selling enough of a product? Then they're going to choose not to sell it in the store. This combined with Wal-Mart's new practice of every 24-32 months "renovating" each store makes life difficult for people who're accustomed to going to Wal-Mart and finding the same thing they have been finding there for 30 years.
That makes sense. I've notice that the Walmart further into the urban area has a lot less camping/outdoor gear than the one that is another half hour out towards the more mountain/undeveloped areas.

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