DIY Hanging Kit for Your Camping Stove

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Apr 20

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Do you like tinkering with gear? Are you one of those people who like to customize things to meet your specific needs, or do you prefer to leave it to the companies with the resources to do make equipment at a quality that is often hard to achieve when “doing it yourself?”

I think the reality is that most of us do a bit of both. I don’t modify climbing gear like belay devices and such. I take what was built and work around the constraints of that build. Take a belay device that is certified for use with certain rope thicknesses. There are ways to add friction using skinny ropes, and I know how to deploy those techniques; but I’m not figuring out how to narrow the aperture on the device to add more friction to skinnier ropes.

But, I clearly just made a hanging kit for my stove. And I’ve made sleds for winter hauls and have modified backpacks, and the like. There are times that I don’t find a commercially available product that meets my needs, so I alter things. It really comes down to safety - as so many things do in the backcountry - and our assessment of safety. Does modifying a piece of gear make us safer, or does the modification make us less safe?

There probably are some circumstances when the answer to that question isn’t perfectly clear. But there certainly are places where it’s abundantly clear: I’m not modifying my climbing rope unless it’s to cut off a sections that has already become unsafe. I’m perfectly happy to add home made pick guards to my ice tools and crampons for when they are in luggage.

So, does a hanging kit fit the former or the latter? Well, I think that depends on how much you know about how to mitigate the inherent risks that come with cooking inside a tent. That seems like a video I should make, doesn’t it?

As for this hanging kit build, sure you can make the exact one for the same model of stove. This provide provides enough information and measurements for that to be done. But you could also use it as inspiration - a practical example of concepts that could be applied to designing and building a kit for some other stove model that you’d prefer. So, take a look!

Here is the gear, the materials, and the tools you would need to build the hanging kit I made in the video:

MSR Pocket Rocket Deluxe - https://sovrn.co/11i9t2f

Toaks 900ml, 130mm diameter pot - https://sovrn.co/1dqmpyz

Toaks 1100ml, 115mm diameter pot - https://sovrn.co/1g8bdu9

Windburner hanging kit - https://sovrn.co/0m7gh4y

Silicone tubes - https://sovrn.co/8v5rhcx

Sharpie - https://sovrn.co/rntw7k8

Framing square - https://sovrn.co/dy5fhf7

1 1/8 metal cutting hole saw - https://sovrn.co/byotxlv

¼ inch metal cutting drill bit - https://sovrn.co/tkn7q4b

Drill - https://sovrn.co/lr130sh

Dremel - https://sovrn.co/1uduccg