norts wrote:I would recommend 2 cannisters rather than 1 large. I have seen 2 cannisters fail. This was the valve after taking the stove off. We had to keep the stove on the bottle.
Also the stove is lower to the ground with the smaller bottle, more stable, and less wind.
Roger
Hi Roger,
I have never had a canister Lindal valve fail or leak, although I have heard of it happening once or twice, I have run hundreds of tests on canister stoves and I have even refill canisters sometimes and have never had a problem. (CAUTION it can be very dangerous to refill canisters and it is illegal in some places I do not advise anyone else to refill canisters)
I did some tests a few years back with putting my stove (Pocket Rocket) on a full canister and then weighing it, I then left the stove on the canister over night and then reweighing the stove/canister and every time I did this I had lost some gas. Now I always remove the stove after cooking.
I also doubt that stability would be a problem on a 450g canister, it would be much more stable that using a 100g canister.
Tony
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