Zero Cost Cookset - Adding a pot holder to your windscreen

Fritz Krueger is a bicycle tourist who also has a passion for researching, designing and building homemade camp stoves. He has contributed several articles about Camp Stoves to Bicycle Touring 101. This particular article is part of his Zero Cost Cookset series.

Regardless of how any stove was originally made, whether it was purchased in a store or made at home from plans and ideas seen elsewhere please always remember to use caution! Flames burn and a bad burn could go a long way towards ending a bicycle touring adventure far too early!

Use a tracing circle to determine where the supports need to go.
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Punch the holes for the supports.
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This article modifies the windscreen built in the previous holder to add pot holding capabilities.

Step One:

Sketch a triangle of pot supports onto your tracing. Refer to the left picture.

Step Two:

Set the wind screen on the tracing. At each point of the triangle, punch 2 holes 3/4" down from the top. Refer to the picture to the right.

Create the coathanger supports.
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The completed pot holder.
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Step Three:

Cut and bend pot supports from a wire coat hanger. Important: the straight portion of the supports must extend outside the wind screen. If a curved portion of the support rests on the wind screen, when there is weight on the support, it will flip 180 degrees and fall out.

At this point you have a functional pot holder. The next article discusses the fuel you will need for your stove.

Submitted by Fritz Krueger

This article is just one of a series of articles that Fritz has written for Bicycle Touring 101. I encourage you to check out his other articles in this section and his wonderful web site where he has more plans for stoves and accessories.

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