Does anyone have details about MSR’s 2005 stove based on the JetBoil design? I was hoping it would be similar enough to drive down the price, but I guess it’s supposed to be like $170!
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Anyone know what details it’ll have that make it almost $100 more than the JetBoil? Or just the MSR name…
Jeff
If it’s the one I’m thinking about, the only feature it shares with the jetboil is the nifty pot with integrated fins that act like a heatsink. The MSR stove runs on unpressurized white gas rather than canister fuel like the jetboil. The one I saw had a high/low sort of setting rather than the variable flame control on the jetboil. I think that the MSR design corrects Jetboil’s error in that you can use other pots with the MSR stove unlike the Jetboil (where you’re stuck using the insulated ‘cooking mug.’) The idea is that the new MSR stove will be the best of the canister and white gas worlds, ie convenient, refillable, light, and hopefully less hassle than pressurized white gas stoves. It’s a pretty cool idea, hopefully it’ll work out well in reality. Anyhow, that’s all from memory based on a working prototype at the OR show in Salt Lake City last August, so there’s a good chance that at least part of it will be different in production versions. Later!
Skittles
The camping stove market is; to make a pepsi can size stove under 3 ounces that runs on the hottest, safest and still cheapest fuels. That is fuel Oil #1. Like you use in your jet or house or trucks. So there is barrels of oil around the globe and fuel burns the hottest of all in the vapor form.
I don’t know why some people want to bash people like that who what to invent new things. But they do. I’m pretty sure that MSR VAPOR is fuel to, not white gas. But white gas is the 2nd hottest fuel per ounce. But almost as dangerous as alcohol spilled. I’m taking bets.:pimp
hikerdude
Wonder how hard it really would be to make a pepsi can kerosene stove? I live in town now, so no crazy pyrotechnic expermients for me anymore :oh On the MSR stove, I’m probably thinking about a different model. There is a really cool little white gas stove in the works there that is going to be in the $150 range though, I’ll be interested to see how it works out.
Skittles