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Originally Posted by CSB
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I've got three of four of them, and a fistful of spare parts. Except for the leathers in the air pump, they are damn near bulletproof. Takes a little skill to get started (preheat, manipulation of the gas valve). Burns any kind of mogas.
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Jesus - two other pieces of team equipment that never went to the field. Cleaned and kept in their case for IG inspections.
Hot item in the 80's in 5th Group was the grasshopper stove working of the small camp propane bottles. Worked well just about everywhere. Needed to sleep with the bottles in arctic like conditions but still worked somewhat better than pre-heats.
The style died out years ago. For a while you could get a round stove that sat on the stubby bottles with a larger plastic base. Even those are not to be found these days.
I concur with the observations above for a backpack stove.
I'm still running a Coleman one burner multi fueler I picked up around 1990. While lighter than a PRC77 I would not consider it a backpack stove. More a basecamp, car camper stove - but it is small enough to pack if you wanted to.
If your stove will spend most of it's travel time in a vehicle and most of it's cooking time on a table it's better to go one step up to a slightly larger stove. They handle bigger pots - mostly heating water or frying stuff.