MSR Windburner – Hanging Kit II

Finally, I've been able to procure the hanging kit for my Windburner.  Apparently they're in short supply.  If you will remember my previous post, MSR Windburner – Hanging Kit I, I pressed the Reactor's hanging kit into service.  It worked, but MSR doesn't recommend this inasmuch as the Windburner may invert due to its higher center of gravity.

MSR Windburner Posts

• "First Look" Report
• Trail Report #1
• Hanging Kit I
• Lighting the Windburner
• Wind Testing
• Coffee Press
• Hanging Kit II
• MSR Windburner – Three Things to Note
• Cooking Ability
• Final, Completed Review

Now, I've got the proper kit.

To me, the outstanding feature of this kit is that does NOT have to be disassembled each time you put away the stove.  Now, that's nice.  When you pack up the stove, you simply wind the cables around the burner...

The hanging kit, wound around the Windburner's burner.

...and put the whole of it into the pot.

The Windburner's burner and hanging kit, stored in the pot.

And yes the canister stand fits in there too if you'll be doing a "mixed" trip where sometimes you'll be using the hanging kit and sometimes you'll be doing the more standard arrangement of cooking on the ground.

The MSR Windburner's burner, hanging kit, and canister stand all fit into the pot along with a 110g canister.

The hanging kit attaches to the burner by means of spring clips that are inserted into the large air inlets on the windscreen.

The spring clip attachment of the Windburner's hanging kit.

Simply squeeze and insert.  Best to do it at home or base camp I think.  Fiddling with it while wearing mittens isn't going to be fun.  But remember that you can simply leave the hanging kit attached at all times, so you shouldn't have to be assembling it with mittens on in the field.

Squeeze the spring clip and insert it into the air inlet on the windscreen

Now, it's important to position the clip properly otherwise the pot and stove might shift suddenly.  With boiling water, sudden shifts are just not what you want.  The clip should lie flat against the windscreen when properly positioned.  Take a look at the below photo.  The clip on the left is incorrectly positioned.  Note how it does NOT lie flat against the windscreen.  It must be rotated 180° so that it will properly align.  The clip on the right is properly positioned.  Note that it lies flat.

The Windburner hanging kit's clips should lie flat against the windscreen.
The clip on the left is incorrectly aligned.  Rotate it 180°.
The clip on the right is properly aligned.  Note that it lies flat.

Once you've got the clips properly inserted and aligned, hang it, put on the pot, and move the slider down the cables until it is snug.

The slider on an MSR Windburner hanging kit.
The slider is the double angled metal tube that you see the cables going through in the above photo.

When everything is properly set up, it should look about like the the photo below.  Note that the slider has been moved down towards the pot until it is reasonably snug.  The kit is very well designed, and I don't think you'll have any trouble with things suddenly inverting.

The Windburner all set up in its hanging kit

The entire kit weighs about an ounce (29 g), including the case although why you'd bring the case is beyond me.  I'd just leave it assembled and not have to hassle with it each and every time I set up the stove.  As usual, I'll list the individual component weights in the appendix.

That's it.  The MSR Windburner's hanging kit.  Very nice.

HJ

Appendix – Component Weights

Hanging Kit
Component	Grams	Ounces
Case	16	0.6
Cables	13	0.5
Total	29	1.0

The above weights are the weights I measured in grams on my scale.  The ounces column is a derived figure.  Some rounding error may occur.

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