I love these little discoveries of things lying around that work with outdoor kit.Plastic lid from instant coffee cylinder ( look at aldi/lidl) fits great over Alpkit Myticup and holds foil lid nice and all the rest whats put inside secure..
Hopefully you will test it before hand....it doesn't look as though there's sufficient gap around the pot for the hot gases to get to the vent holes, but that may be just the photo.
@Whiteburn there's 2-3 mm space around the pot so the pot still sitts on the upper egde of the screen. since there are no handles on the pot I opted to use pins as support...
That enough space to let the hot gases excape. Also I plan to cut 1,5 cm holes around upper perimeter to increase airflow...cheers
Following the arrival of my 1mm dyneema i undertook an experiment in ruining my eyesight as quickly as possible by attempting to splice it into a UCR guy line. The appeal is the UCR just has two fixed loops at each end so it can be larks footed onto the tarp or shelter and then pegged out. it is fully adjustable from about 18 inches to 6ft. Its rated to about 90kg and the weight is just 2.5g. It requires no hardware or further knots as it relies on the friction of one rope passing through the other to maintain the tension once adjusted. Low bulk as well. I will be testing mainly on my hammock setup but it looks to work just as well as its bigger amsteel brother. Its a very fiddly job at this diameter. A normal UCR takes me about 10 mins in 2.2mm line but this was an hour. I used 0.2mm stainless wire folded in half to make the fid. Worked fine but i would have preferred a little more stiffness.
Yes weight savings and economy of line used are the primary benefits. In amsteel the saving is 10g per pair of whoopies. Whoopies use around 25ft of line per pair and these use a little over half that so are cheaper. The reason for 1mm is for my guy lines to eliminate the line loc 3s and 2.5mm cord I currently use. Less weight and less bulk. I've had little success with spectra dyneema as it doesn't have as much core space for splicingNow why did you have to post this... says I, nervously eyeing the 100m spool of 1.2mm Spectra sitting on my desk.
Just out of interest, what is the advantage of using a UCR over a whoopie sling in this case? The only one I can see is a small weight saving because you only have a single length going through that long bury rather than a long loop going back.
I've had little success with spectra dyneema as it doesn't have as much core space for splicing
I have no idea what a whoopie is, but I'd still like one
Whoopie slngs are a slippery slope: you start with some innocent splicing of Amsteel dynema and you quickly find yourself shopping for tree huggers and eyeing every measly tree as a possible hang.
That's a great idea @paul .
Adjustable without knots or hardware on thin fiddly lines is great
How short a bury can you get away with?
DaveXtrekker has his theory arse-backwards.How short a bury can you get away with?