Time is up and the testers for the MSR Reactor Passaround have been selected:
- Lightening up
- Litekayaker
- Toby
- Thomas
- Richard
A big thank you to all who participated, though only five can take part in this passaround - but do not despair, another passaround is just around the corner, so stay tuned for that! The five lucky ones, please contact me via email (its on the right under in the Copyright Notice) and give me your full name and address. I'll take the Reactor up north for a trip next week, and send it to the first in line the week after.
Last weekend I used the nice weather to go out and make a HD video of the Reactor in action, and see if it stays true to its promise of boiling a liter of water in less than three minutes - click play to see:
Great results for an initial test, though we'll see what the testers will put it through and if it then still looks so good! To see how much gas has been used for boiling this one liter of water, I put the canister on the weight scale back at home, and it told me that its now 346 g heavy - that means 18 g of gas have been used. I'm no expert on gas stoves, but that does sound rather good to me. I will be chasing the winter and leave on Friday for a week to the north of Finland, together with my fiancée and her family, for a week of relaxing in a cottage and enjoying the last bit of winter - even proper minus degrees have been forecasted, so I will give the Reactor a test run there before it goes on its journey.
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Unofortunately I'm in quite a hurry at the moment. I hope that someone else who has more time would test the stove before me and I could do the testing properly when I have the time (starting from the halfway of May or so).
ReplyDeleteIs anyone volunteer to take my place at the top of the list?
I can be the first if needed. Short mailing distance too, we can use the Finnish internal mail with Hendrik ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Litekayaker! I happen to live in Finland too, in a medium sized city in Southern Carelia.
ReplyDeleteI have kayaking trip to Koitajoki coming in 14.-16.5. That would be good chance to test the stove. So if someone else would still like to test the stove before me, feel free to take the second turn. Is anyone else from Finland? Toby? That would save a bit in the shipping costs. But if not, I can be second (or third since Hendrik stated...) to try it out.
Sorry. I wasn't thinking clearly at the evening. If Litekayaker takes the stove first I can be second and then send it to Toby and so on.
ReplyDeleteI've send my address to Hendrik and I believe he will forward it to Litekayaker or something?
I'm in Vantaa so it doesn't have too far to go from either of you guys then. In the time period Hendrik is talking about I might not get to do much with the stove beside make coffee whilst out climbing sometime, but that's OK. I'll use it as an excuse to do an overnight climbing trip one weekend!
ReplyDeleteH'm. Have you noticed that HD version of video is not available neither in a blog nor YouTube page?
ReplyDeleteOh my God! Just tested the Reactor this evening and... Well, you'll hear more when the passaround is completely done. Just wov! =D
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