wind and stove with cs model

Papa
Papa Member Posts: 27
edited June 2018 in Modifications & Upgrades
on windy days or when the wind kicks up 
my stove flame wants to go out...
anybody have this issue and ideas and how you resolved issue
thanks 

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  • ColleenD2
    ColleenD2 Member Posts: 580
    Some folks make wings for the sides. Let me find the video where the lady explained how she made them for her T@G.

    2019 Custom T@B 320 U Boondock Lite-ish
    Custom Colors & Custom Interior
    We've slept in 34 states, 2 countries & counting
  • ColleenD2
    ColleenD2 Member Posts: 580
    It’s a group you have to join on Facebook. If you use the search bar and type wings, her name is Meme and the post is from July 30, 2017. She covers materials and everything. 
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/87969923985/?ref=search
    2019 Custom T@B 320 U Boondock Lite-ish
    Custom Colors & Custom Interior
    We've slept in 34 states, 2 countries & counting
  • Sharon_is_SAM
    Sharon_is_SAM Member Posts: 10,035
    You can try an aluminum camp stove windscreen - may require 2 to circle the entire stovetop grill.  Some people with clamshells make sides that extend from the hatch to reduce the wind.  You can put up a canopy over the hatch and add sidewalls, too.  
    Sharon / 2017 T@B CSS / 2015 Toyota Sienna Minivan / Westlake, Ohio
  • rkj__
    rkj__ Member Posts: 641
    SAM said:
    You can try an aluminum camp stove windscreen - may require 2 to circle the entire stovetop grill.  Some people with clamshells make sides that extend from the hatch to reduce the wind.  You can put up a canopy over the hatch and add sidewalls, too.  
    On a previous trip, I fashioned my own wind screen for the burner out of aluminum foil. 
    2016 T@b 320 CS-S - 2018 GMC Sierra - St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
  • skwhee
    skwhee Member Posts: 246
    edited June 2018
    @Papa
    This was our solution especially when we did not have the 10x10 canopy and sidewalls set up.  It's inexpensive, folds flat and requires little storage, and worked reasonably well:
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CFP0F/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
    Hope you enjoy your CS kitchen was much as we did ours!
    Happy Trails!
    Steve and Karen Cullowhee, North Carolina 2008 Ford F150 --2018 T@B 400
  • rfuss928
    rfuss928 Member Posts: 1,181
    Some nice solutions on the T@G forum


  • Sharon_is_SAM
    Sharon_is_SAM Member Posts: 10,035
    How do you bend aluminum?  I also am considering cutting the bottom out of a disposable aluminum baking pan.


    Sharon / 2017 T@B CSS / 2015 Toyota Sienna Minivan / Westlake, Ohio
  • ColleenD2
    ColleenD2 Member Posts: 580
    skwhee! Wonderful! Ordered! You just save me a lot of work trying to make those wings right now! 

    2019 Custom T@B 320 U Boondock Lite-ish
    Custom Colors & Custom Interior
    We've slept in 34 states, 2 countries & counting
  • rkj__
    rkj__ Member Posts: 641
    SAM said:
    How do you bend aluminum?  I also am considering cutting the bottom out of a disposable aluminum baking pan.


    Very similarly to how you would bend steel.  With many grades, cracking is not a problem unless you are trying to do a sharp bend.  You can see in the picture above, that the bend radius is large, relative to the thickness of the aluminum. 
    2016 T@b 320 CS-S - 2018 GMC Sierra - St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
  • rfuss928
    rfuss928 Member Posts: 1,181
    edited June 2018
    Inspired by the "cabinets and galley mods" thread on the T@G forum,  I came up with this:






    I used some one inch strips of aluminum flashing.  Where they overlap I pop riveted them together leaving a long free end on the inside.  Bending them around two of the legs of the grate adjusts the fit and keeps it in place.

    Totally untested but I think it looks promising.  Nothing but some leftovers and time invested.

    The best solution I have found up to this point is a segmented folding wind guard made for use around small camp stoves.  There is not really a stable place to set it on that little stovetop where it is not easily knocked over but it has helped. 

    Ohuhu Camp Stove Windshield - 10 Plates Folding Camping Picnic Cooker Stove Wind Screen

    I'm hoping the new one just eliminates the need for this or anything else.




  • dundons
    dundons Member Posts: 36
    I just made one of these today, very easy bending the 1/8" X 1 1/2" X 48" aluminum bar from Home Depot with a bench vice! I didn't bother with a fastener as the bar seems to spring closed by itself. 





     2016 T@B CS/ 2014 Toyota FJ Cruiser
  • Vikings
    Vikings Member Posts: 147
    I built one like Dundons, only difference we pop riveted two ends together. 
    Mary Kay, the cook, says flame has not blown out since adding this device. 
    However device has not been up against hurricane force winds yet...
    Kim & Mary Kay,  2016 CS-S,  Spokane, WA


    Map of Provinces I Visited

  • Slackers
    Slackers Member Posts: 490
    edited April 2024
    I found the last piece of the above aluminum bar at our Home Depot today. I will bend it as described by @dundons and @Vikings. Up until now we haven't needed this but that changes with our upcoming travel plans.
    Edit: Photo of finished product. 

    2019 Tab 320 CSS, 2019 Ranger TV, OH

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