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    Driving to the Arctic Circle - advice required from our Scandinavian friends!

    I have some problems to understand why... Doing this will be a prove of doing something almost impossible, and it will be a memory for life. On the other hand If you want to see and explore the variations of the Norwegian nature the month July will give you much more, even when it is a sudden...
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    Driving to the Arctic Circle - advice required from our Scandinavian friends!

    First of all, we wish you welcome to Norway! Traveling in some of this areas may wary a lot from year to year depending of the weather. Even the main roads may sometimes be closed for far weeks if the weather becomes to bad. In the mountains the the snow may make walls of several meters high...
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    Primus omni / Optimus nova / MSR XGK / HM 22

    You will probably get several different answers, depending on experience and... I have had my Nova for more than 6 years (Not Nova+) and have had no trouble at all, after I had learned to handle the quick coupling right. Optimus has had a periode of trouble, and had recently some recalls...
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    Anyone know where to find DUOSSAL pots?

    It is used a lot, just ask for "red spirt" or "fin fyr", but it is expensive denaturated alkohol. This may soot more than your meths. http://tinyurl.com/2ahzruz http://www.agerup.no/files/billeder/maling/fin_fyr.jpg Welcome!
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    Anyone know where to find DUOSSAL pots?

    They are quite rare, Ill guess the nonstick won the market. I have 2 sets, one nonstick (witch not will last for more than about 10 years) and a duossal set (only used 2 times). Duossal is better than plain aluminium or stainless and should last until it is lost or crushed. Still the...
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    Fuel for MRS stove

    Back to basic. The white gas refered to in this manual is clean gasoline with little or no additives. The moast common worldwidw band is Coleman fuel. Often replaced by other brands and products mainly containing Heptane. "4-stroke environmently friendly gasoline" "Aspen 4T" is often recomanded...
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    Favourite fuel for your stove?

    I prefere the odourless kero-sustitute used to light charcoal. dsk
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    Gas conversion for trangia

    This links contains some pics who may be useful, the text is Danish. http://www.aye.dk/multifuel/ This pic shows a MSR to trangia adapter. (Swedish) http://www.fjallklubben.org/stockholm/kok.html It's comming Chinese copies of Primus MFS no, approx 1/2 cost, burns liquid and cannister...
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    Norwegian Woolly Jumpers

    Yes 100% I have 1 myself. dsk
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    Norwegian Woolly Jumpers

    If price and quality counts, but not how it looks, my favourite is the Norwegian Army surplus jumper. Not The NATO model, it looks better, and is a good one too, but I prefere this one. http://www.forsvarsbrukt.no/shopexd.asp?id=67 The price of NOK 150 (used) or NOK 220(£~18) (new) should not...
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    Which multi-fuel stove?

    I have a Nova, and I love it no trouble during ~5 yrs, after I started to use it as described in the manual. The quick coupling is a bit tricky. ( :( a lot of others claims much trouble with the Nova :confused: ) Mine works well on white gas, paraffin, white spirit etc. Easy to preheat...