How-To: Rolled Camping Kitchen Organizer
Set up your camp kitchen in no time flat with this handy rolled camping kitchen organizer!
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How-To: DIY Camping Chair
Turn a folding luggage rack into an awesome outdoor seat with this DIY camping chair tutorial!
DIY Flameless Fire Pit
This DIY faux flameless fire pit on Free People blog is so dreamy and inspiring it makes me want to build one and then sit inside of a teepee fort listening to 1970’s records on a shag carpet. You too, right?
Make Your Own Cheap and Efficient Rocket Stove
Keith Levy of New Zealand whipped up this neat little rocket stove out of two small cans cut and fit together inside of a larger can. He says, “If I don’t get back to basics at least once a day, then it hasn’t been a good day.”
Free Download: Camp Axe Sheath Template
Don’t let the advertising-quality photography fool you: This is the work of an individual maker (specifically Matt of Wood&Faulk) who wants to share it with you just for the pleasure of sharing. Well, that and the traffic, probably. We all <3 the traffic. [via NOTCOT]
Insulated Canteen From No-Refill Propane Bottle
Cool Instructable from user hpstoutharrow. Of course these propane bottles are not meant to be opened, so you have to be careful to follow a sensible procedure, but it seems to me like hpstoutharrow has done a good job in providing that. Commenters there seem to agree.
Once any residual flammable gas is safely vented, both valves are removed by drilling, and the bottom of the bottle is cut out to insert a 20 oz plastic beverage bottle, which has been shrunk slightly by exposure to boiling water. The neck of the soda bottle protrudes where the tank’s center valve was, and is secured there with an o-ring. Spray-in foam insulation holds the liner in place and insulates its contents from the metal bottle, and the bottom of the tank is reattached for appearance’s sake. [via Hack a Day]
How-To: Ultralight camp pot from Heineken “keg” can
In the summer of 2002, Heineken introduced its 24 oz. “mini keg” can in the US. Besides having twice the volume of a normal aluminum beverage can, the “mini keg’s” unusual design includes a number of ridges and rings that make it much more rigid. Sometime around 2004, so far as I can tell, ultralight backpacking enthusiasts began experimenting with using the new can design as a cooking pot.
The community has evolved the design of these cooking pots to a remarkable extent, and although there seem to be as many variations as there are builders, a few common features seem to be emerging:
1. The top of the can is removed with a side-cutting can opener and preserved for use as a lid. The tab may be bent up to provide a handle, or a small knob may be attached.
2. The side of the can is wound with 1/16″ fiberglass wick to provide an insulated gripping surface
3. An elastic silicone wristband is stretched around the rim of the can for drinking comfort.
I’m sure to screw it up if I try to give any particular person “credit” for any of these ideas, but the embedded video overview from Minibulldesign Cult gives the best general overview of the idea I can find. And Rick of Wilderness Survival Forums has produced a good phototutorial describing the fiberglass winding process.
