I’m not going to pretend that I read every comment. But I did upvote everyone in this thread.

Trangia don’t have the heat capture rings but it looks like you can mod Optimus burners to work in their aluminium wind shield kits. Got a lightweight aluminium set to give it a go.

Thanks for the tip.

Nah mate. The transformer is usually used as an inductor for the switch mode conversion.

It looks like you have it right though. The big brown cap should be rated for 250v + and will be on the mains AC side.

The DC side will have lower voltage rated smoothing caps.

Post the link to the device or better photos and I’ll have a closer look for you.

Excluding the rather silly clip on ring thing, all the TX type pots look to be plastic coated. Possibly not the kettle but I want access from the top. The Optimus terra range is great but again, stupid Teflon coatings on everything.

Also to the temp drop issue with gas, I didn’t watch the whole thing but a strong recommendation is to get a burner that can also run on kerosene for cold weather trips. Even propane sucks in the cold, liquid fuel will run rings around it.

It’s a skill that takes practice and experience more than any golden tidbit of knowledge. Food is wide and varied, what works for one thing won’t work for all.

There are lots of general pointers, use more oil or, make sure the pan is hot first etc etc.

One of the biggest misconceptions that people have from Teflon is food sticking and releasing and worrying about that. With Teflon, at least when it’s good and new, nothing ever sticks, at any point, ever. This is not true of anything else. Your steak will stick, for a while, and then it will let go once the protein has cooked a bit. Your pancakes will need to cook for a while before you can get them to release from the pan etc.

Part of the skill is the implements you use and learning to release various foods from the surface. I like a wooden spatula for bulky things, but I also have a thin polyamide spatula for trickery stuff. The sharp edge on that helps a lot without damaging the pan. You can also use temperature changes to get food to release.

Lastly, sometimes some food sticks. Don’t sweat it. It’s still edible, don’t let it ruin your meal and learn as you go.

Finding a non teflon coated aluminium pot with a heat capturing coil for lightweight hiking is impossible last I looked.

Just removing teflon from stuff is a huge pain too, it’s dangerous to burn it off, I might try and sand blast the Teflon off the one I have. I have to research how bad that is, probably makes way too much toxic microparticles. But it really shouldn’t be so hard to find food appliances and cookware not coated in this crap.

RIP satirical news. You are missed.

Blender has a decent cam processor add-on. Solve space and openSCAD are other very good parametric CAD programs.

Solve space and openSCAD are both great options. I have been learning solve space lately and it is great. I couldn’t learn freecad, something about the UI and workflow was just too unintuitive for me.

I was burnt by fusion 360. Had some of “my” designs locked in the cloud when they spent 2 weeks and a dozen emails trying to “fix” my educator access. The fix they really wanted was my credit card details. I refuse to use or teach anyone to use that ecosystem now.

Not defending the lack of updates in any way. But you can fix this if you login with a browser and enable all languages in your account settings.

Watch the media turn on anyone that tries such sensible shit. And then watch the voters lap it up.

It’s crazy. I’m expecting a bunch of forced academic redundancies in April/May. I don’t expect her to last a full term, but she will take a lot of others out on the way.

Currently at the Australian National University.

This is too real.

I assumed these are small fpv drones? They have kind of broken the traditional warfare dynamics and are more like ground force+ without the traditional air to air susceptibility.

But I like the tannins!

Whilst trace lithium is important for many biological functions, it seems unlikely to me that a particular tree would require significant quantities of lithium to thrive.

Having a quick google it seems the issue is a particular forest that exists in a place that companies wished to prospect for lithium. I couldn’t find any evidence of a high lithium dependence for Jarrah trees.

I would be very surprised if it’s not possible for us to mine lithium deposits and also have healthy forests. Though typically companies just care less about flattening acers to get to the money making rocks.

Yep. Doesn’t matter if you’re the biggest redneck or the greenest hippy on the street the common factor is everyone wants the lights to stay on and they don’t want to pay through the nose for it. Solar has already won, we can’t even come close to touching it with any other tech.

Yep. Great idea and seemingly decent implementation. Even with some hiccups the net benefits will be unmatched to any other energy policy for the price.

Haha that’s amazing. I hope you enjoyed them, the entire concept of never questioning authority (in all meanings) seems to have pitfalls that have trapped too many of today’s society into polarising views with no concept of nuance. If more people had read these books the world would probably be a better place.

Now let’s just hope Pullman can get the last book out this decade! He better not pull a Robert Jourdan on us!

I assume they disliked the source material. Which is a shame because they are amazing books.