[Sca-cooks] Re: Stove for my tent!

[Olwen the Odd]

>Hej!
>     I would not fire up a propane stove in a modern tent.  The period
>marquise I have is 15' x 18' with 6' 6" side walls & a 12' peak (I used to
>merchant on both the SCA & Rendezvous circuits & plan to do so again in the
>future).  It has also been treated with flame retardant.  I am having the
>stove jack put in the side wall by Tentsmiths the company that made the
>tent.  After years of camping in cold wet weather (including hypothermia in
>FL one January) I am ready to stay warm at night & cook even if we have a
>downpour.  It will also allow me to invite my cold wet friends into the
>tent
>for a game of chance & a hot toddy on those cold wet nights.
>     The reason I have purchased the stove rather than making it myself (I
>am
>a metalsmith) is that I would rather go with a proven design that is done
>by
>an experienced welder who has done hundreds of them, than finding out that
>my design did not work after I spent a large portion of my free time on
>putting it together (I need to spend some of it making better garb for the
>War).  Also the stove does not send toxic fumes into the tent this way.
>While the stove is not period, I am willing to suffer in comfort.
>Pax,
>Olaf
>who Drakey like burned a few of his hairs today when they got in the way of
>the Little Torch while I was repairing a gold watch clasp.

Olaf, where do you camp?  I would like to see your stove set up.  I'm quite
sure a few of us would.  Our former Baroness keeps saying to prepare for a
wet Pennsic.  If that is the case, you may have lot's of company, lot's of
the time!
Olwen

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