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I bought a Brukit in the sales over Christmas, but have been struggling with it. The burner fits inside the pot, sure, or a gas can, but not both, and then the burner slides about inside. the ceramic/glass starter is kinda exposed up, so you can't put other stuff in the pot with it face up.
If you put the burner in the pot upside down it would protect it nicely, except there's a steel post sticking up, that looks like a temperature sensor (but as far as I can see is just a rivited steel post), so you cant put it the pot upside down without bending that and damaging the pot base.
Fit a mini gas can, and that arrangement is tall enough that while it fits in the pot, you can't quite get the lid on.
A full size can has enough "belly" on the underside to nicely sit over the burner and protect it, but that's also too tall to fit the lid on.
The best I can manage is fit the burner to the pot (not wildly securely, as it's a loose bayonet fit) and put a gas can and food inside the pot, but that kinda defeats the point. what am I missing here?
Cheap Chinese tat rebranded? Aye, that's the kind of daftness that happens without proper R&D and testing.
Someone else posted similar on the Alpkit thread...idea was good but it didn't all fit together for proper convenience.
It is not designed by Alpkit, just branded by them. Same stove was being sold at Swedish Biltema stores.
For snyone looking for a Brukit that works - the Go Outdoors OEX Heiro is £50 and the burner and a 100g cartridge do fit inside.
https://weekendadventurers.co.uk/oex-heiro/
Nearest thing to a flaw is that the mesh bag is a tight fit.
Yeah, I bought one & just assumed it would have been designed so a gas cannister would fit inside. It's frustratingly close, but doesn't fit. Annoying.
For anyone looking for a Brukit that works - the Go Outdoors OEX Heiro is £50 and the burner and a 100g cartridge do fit inside.
I'm away using that as we speak. Yes, the 100g can fits in and leaves a small amount of space between it and the lid.
I also bought one of those fold out 3-leg support things which when folded, doesn't fit into the pot which I thought was a bit of a mistake.
I filed the corners of each foot and now it also fits into the pot along with the 100g gas but only just and the lid is maybe 2mm off 'home'.
I've also found that after getting new gas whilst away, that a 300g canister goes in, then the red leg support, then the lid on top and then it all fits like that into the mesh bag which drawstrings in nicely keeping it all together.
You can also slide and keep a teaspoon into the little neoprene pocket between where the handles attach.
Great stove. 👍
interestingly ive just done a google around for gas sizes, and i think the mini can i have is a 113g, rather than a 100g, which might just be enough to be a deal breaker in terms of height.
The OEX with a 300g
I have a Brukit and mine fits everything in it including a gas cannister. Only a small one, but enough for boiling up water for coffee. Mine goes blue feet, burner, pot stand, gas cannister, lid. I can slip a couple of small coffee sachets in there too. It's a Coleman cannister like this -
I have a Brukit and mine fits everything in it including a gas cannister.
I just bought the cannister that was on sale in the Alpkit store (Hathersage) alongside the stove.
I think it is the 100g Primus one (bright red). I will need to check as it's just been sat in the garage for ages.
I assumed all of the cannisters are a standardised size.
I have a Brukit and mine fits everything in it including a gas cannister. Only a small one, but enough for boiling up water for coffee. Mine goes blue feet, burner, pot stand, gas cannister, lid. I can slip a couple of small coffee sachets in there too. It's a Coleman cannister like this -
It was me that brought this up on the main Alpkit thread.....
Obviously you can fit a small 100g in it. But my contention is the the Brukit is pretty huge. A 1200ml container with a 1000ml recommended fill level. That's big, especially if you are only selling the one size. I think most folk would for a compromise of something with little smaller capacity and a smaller pack size. If it had been made smaller it could have still fitted a small 100g in no bother.
But to make it a big unit like the Brukit, why not make it just a tiny bit taller then you could fit a 220g cannister in too. It's size would then make sense.
It just feels a bit half arsed in the thinking department.
aliexpress has loads of various heat exchanger style stove/brew kits, just make sure to check reviews and if it comes from a outdoorsy store.
The oex hero is an ace 1 person heat exchanger type stove. Recommend.
It does seem daft as my old one (that's still going strong) will fit a 350ml cannister inside.
https://advntr.cc/alpkit-brukit-stove/
I have a theory - there is a thick, pokey post type thing that sticks up adjacent to the burner on the opposite side to the ignitor that doesn't seem to do anything. I wondered about this when I got mine & whether it was put there to stop the ignitor being broken during packing.
I wonder if this was added as a device to improve durability/lifetime but the result is that it prevents the larger cannisters from fitting.
It doesn't seem to be there on the pics in the link that @johnnystorm linked to and he claims that one will fit the larger cans of gas.
I've just dug mine out of my backpack to check.
Ignore my mention of 350g cans, it's a Primus 230g that's 350g gross (so I can measure what's left after use) it *just* fits in and the igniter of the burner fits in the curve in the base of the can. The raised circle in the lid fits the valve in the can that just protrudes beyond the rim.
The inside of the pot is 140mm tall and 115mm wide. The burner is 73mm tall and the igniter does go above the rim of the steel section. The three feet on the burner do have a lip that I could grind off to make squeezing the can in easier.
Fwiw it says on the side "Manufactured for Alpkit by Firemaple" are the new ones made by someone else?
I assumed all of the cannisters are a standardised size.
I expect so. Much like mountainbike parts 👍😉
