Universal stove jack-Fit all tent stove pipes. Another brilliant and thoroughly useful post from the indefatigable Tim Tinker. I was going to have to make a stove jack myself once I perfected my tent stove and chimney, projects which I have not given up on – just that other projects are ahead of them in the queue…such as perfecting the tent!
As I normally sleep at lower altitudes than Tim (and generally out of the snow) I normally just heat my tent (if it needs it) with a cheery fire out the front, as you know.
Of course this necessitates gathering much more wood and means that an ideal campsite will soon be depleted of this useful resource, something which would not happen with a tiny tent stove burning only 4-500 grams of twigs per hour, so I must bite the bullet on this project some day, though I often move on to ‘pastures new’ too – and maybe this is a desirable thing in itself.
I think the idea of multiple sizes in a single jack is useful if one owns different stoves and chimneys. I will probably just settle on one size of each (quite a small one), just enough to warm a small tent for the few hours before I turn in at night though.
I think the genius idea in Tim’s post is the ‘invention’ of siliconised cotton (from old shirts – waste not…) It would not have occurred to me that RTV Silicon Rubber has a heat resistance of 350C so that treating cotton with it would produce a fabric one could almost cook on! Good enough for the top of a chimney anyway which will seldom even be hot enough to burn your hand or boil water.
Of course you can just buy (very) heat resistant fabrics (as I suggested in the post about the Fire Umbrella) but that would not be anywhere near as much fun! Indeed you can just buy fire jacks from Aliexpress & etc too. DIY is much more personally rewarding though, isn’t it?
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I at least will make my own when the time comes. Thanks Tim.
