You’re welcome! Well it’s more complicated than that, and I’ll be honest I don’t THOROUGHLY understand everything about it.

But the idea is to move the liquid from one canister to the other, that’s why the “giving” canister is upside down. But because you’re moving the liquid itself, you can accidentally fill the entire canister with liquid, no room for the vapor to expand into when it gets warm, and boom! So be careful. As long as you weigh it you’ll be safe 👍 You freeze the receiving can because cold gas has a lower vapor pressure. And you can put the giving can in a bowl of warm (not hot!) water to increase it’s pressure and make the transfer happen faster. You’ll feel the giving can get cold as you fill the bottom can.

Fun fact, this is how air conditioners work! Take any gas (preferably not flammable, but that exists too), decompress it in a pipe so it boils into a vapor and absorbs a bunch of heat, making the pipe cold and you can blow air over it to cool your house or fridge.

Then that boiled gas vapor goes into a compressor that increases the pressure in a second pipe, enough that the gas has no choice but to condense into a liquid again. This releases all the heat that was captured in the boiling phase. Now you’ve got a hot pipe, and you put it outside and blow air over it to cool it off, further liquifying it. Then you take the liquid and release it back into the low pressure boiling pipe inside and start the process all over again!

Nice! I didn’t know this existed!

Yes mine does canister to canister as well 👍👍

A special adapter from Amazon, like $20.

Be sure to refill by weight. Buy a full screw top canister and weigh it with a kitchen scale, note the weight in grams, write it on the can and in your phone.

Then later, when it’s empty, put it in the freezer for several minutes, pull it out and refill it with the other canister, but only fill it to the weight it was originally at. It will gladly take more gas, but there will be less headroom or no headroom, and the canister has a high chance of exploding.

The Internet will tell you not to do it, and how unsafe it is, how the valves aren’t meant for that many uses, and it’s definitely gonna explode etc etc. But if you do it smart, you’re fine. And don’t reuse the same screw canister many many times, you’re already saving money, reuse it a few times then recycle it and start over.

Edit: this is the one I bought, it’ll do the trick. https://a.co/d/eHJDQGL

Also NEVER EVER EVER refill them with any amount of propane! Yes the normal canisters come with a percent of propane in them to help in cold weather. But getting the partial pressure mixture right is almost impossible at home, and propane will definitely make your canister explode. It’s vapor pressure is too high. That’s why the pure butane canisters are so thin, and the green pure propane canisters are so thick and heavy, because they need to be to hold back the pressure.

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I should try this. Sounds amazing.

Random guy here, stumbled onto this thread.

I can only drink decaf, doctors orders. My wife doesn’t drink more than a cup a day usually, caffeinated.

We have a breville espresso machine, got it during COVID because we were home so much.

We made coffee every day, sometimes several times a day. But now that we’re more or less back to normal, we’re not home often enough to use it regularly. Perhaps once a week.

We still love fancy coffee, just not enough to get up a bit earlier to make it, and take it with us, and then clean the thermos later. Bah.

So we go through a pound or so every few months. It’s actually a bit annoying because the coffee gets less fresh as the weeks go on.

As for what coffee we buy? We buy local, there’s a roaster near our house, which always smells amazing when you drive by. Their coffee is fine, quite tasty even, it just all kind of tastes similar, if that makes sense. Even if I go for some fancy flavors, which I’m guilty of doing (in a separate special grinder), they all taste very similar in base flavor. Maybe people like that 🤷‍♂️ it’s fine.

Our favorite coffee is schuil in Grand rapids Michigan, super tasty, and their flavors are phenomenal (if you like that kind of thing).

Edit: beans are about $9-11/lb here in Michigan.

I didn’t think about splitting the weight, that’s a good point.

Yeah during my short hike I could tell when I was loaded with water or when I was empty haha.

I appreciate the write up! I definitely plan on doing a super short hike which will basically just be a test of the gear, get her a feel for it. Then I have a short hike in mind after that, about an 8 hour drive to get to, not bad.

Thanks! Yeah that’s the impression I’ve been getting, that it’s gonna be really tight. But that’s kind of ok by me

Thanks for the tips! I think I’m gonna go with the zephyr!

Thanks for the feedback!

My plan was to do some local (Michigan USA) hiking trips to get a feel for backpacking with my wife, with the ultimate goal of Iceland. So I wanted to buy gear based on that extreme.

However, Iceland in September was only recently presented to me as an idea by a friend of a friend. He assured me that the weather would be more like 50 to 60f, and we’d end up at a waterfall. It seems he was mistaken, or misguided, and I should do some appropriate research.

I’m going to take your suggestions under advisement! What would you suggest in Europe?

My wife likes camping in general, but has reservations about some of the more rustic aspects of backpacking. The thing that caught her attention was the ability to go and see things that aren’t easily done or perhaps impossible to do without backpacking. Sights that can only be seen after a couple days of hiking. Do you have any suggestions for something like that?

I’m definitely a noob here, and while I loved my first trip out, and would likely enjoy almost anything, I find i don’t have enough information to plan a trip for my wife.

That’s fair, good suggestions. Thinking about it, my hammock and rain fly were also cheap, I didn’t weigh them separately but I bet they could’ve come to 5lbs or more. My loaded pack without water was 35lb. I’m 175 and fairly strong so I didn’t mind it for the 25 miles we did. But it wasn’t nothing.

I think I’m gonna go for it 😬

Thanks! Is 5lbs too heavy? Some people complain about the weight, but anything lighter they start calling ultralight and I’m just not sure it’s worth the trade-offs and extra cost

Nice!

I used to like the a400, had a few of them in service, but a few years ago I tried another one and it was terrible. Just… Slow… like an HDD. I did some research and apparently they changed something with the nand somewhere along the line. Did a bait and switch. I don’t remember the details but it annoyed me.

I actually needed to buy a budget SSD just today, and I got a BX500. We’ll see how it goes. I know not to expect much from a drive without DRAM, but at least I know that going in.

Thanks!

This is very informative thanks. I’ve printed a lot of PLA on my Creality glass plate with no issues, but I recently started with PETG and it’s insane how much harder it sticks.

I learned through trial and error to only remove it while the bed is still hot, but even then it really sticks too well.

Is this legit? Or are you making a spaghetti joke? I actually can’t tell lol

Rain is one thing, a rainstorm is another.

I’ve been caught in the rain and I was fine. I read online that you can get a rain fly that folds around the edges and closes up the ends and keeps out spray and such.

I imagine in a rainstorm you’d be pretty miserable in a tent too, depending on where you were in relation to running ground water 🤷‍♂️

Thanks!

I have felt vulnerable yes, I had one experience where I woke up and thought I heard my buddy walking through the leaves, but then I heard him still snoring. I got a little freaked out, and listened closely, I was just hearing things. But maybe I would’ve felt the same in a tent? Maybe it was just because I was out in the middle of nowhere, which was new for me.

Thanks!