Mike I sent you a PM reference your retired parts....
The handle is a bit mangled from removal, but I’d be happy to mail you the SS clips. Or one at least, I have already repurposed the other clip as an improved side-pour bail. (See offer below)
I am not sure what you want them for though; they only work to secure the lid with the bail handle in the upright position. That lid is unlikely to come off in campfire billypot use and the clips are kinda superfluous.
The Zebrapot is actually a repurposed
Bian Dang, a Taiwanese bento box lunch pail pot, hence the big comfy bail handle for carrying it to work or school, and the lid clips so your steamed pork dumplings and Zong-zi doesn’t fall out on the bus floor.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ben...=QlmPWIbTNIfSjwTPha7QBQ#imgrc=Xwd8gXWOCBhfEM:
Okay, maybe reversing that dimple direction was a hammer stroke of genius after all. It sure does make perfect fitting sense now, now that it worked.
I was surprised at how well that dimple reversed, and even more surprised that the Jetboil then fit perfectly. After success with the SS wire bail installations I could not resist giving it a whack.
And speaking of working successes, that wire bail handle is perfection too. Never occurred to me before to add that extra bit of custom suppleness to a pot handle. No more angular protruding parts. But the wire length must be just right too.
The SS bail wire is (was) 23 inch long, including the swedge loop wire length on each side. That was longer than needed, almost under the pot when folded down, and I have already cut it shorter. 19 inches including cable end loop lengths was about perfect.
Installing those wire bails is about as simple as it can get. Run the cable through one swage (correct spelling???) hole, through the handle attachment point, loop back through the other swage hole and crimp.
Not sure I like the side wire handle though.
I didn’t much like it either. The remaining dilemma for use as a billypot is the lack of a side bail for pouring. The bail attachment is kinda high up on the pot, and that cable was too flexible to allow much pot tilt. The side bail needed to be much stiffer.
I reoriented the top bail attachment (and shortened the wire by 3 inches) and put one of the lid clips back on one side. The stiff lid clip makes a
much better side bail for tilt pouring.
And one last thing, you're kidding me right? There isn't really such a thing as a swedge tool? Besides a pair of pliers I mean.
I was thinking of a Wedgie tool. It is actually a swaging tool, and a real rudder cable swaging tool too is stupid pricey. Crimping the swage closed can be done with a pair of electrical pliers, but getting the clean cut necessary to poke that cable through the tiny swage holes needs an extremely unfrayed end, far cleaner than most wire cutters will leave.
I don’t actually have a pricey crimper/cutter swaging tool. I took a piece of rudder cable into a hardware store and they let me try various wire cutters. My usual hardware store, accustomed to my weird repurposing requests; they were curious about which cutter made the cleanest cut and even took stuff out of blister packs for me to try. Now that’s a place where everybody knows my name.
Most of them made a mess of the cut cable end, but one (a Wiss PWC9W model) left a nice clean cut. Identical to these:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/H-K-Porter-8-in-Wire-Cutters-PWC9/100174049
Nodrama, I have a deal for you. If you want to try that Zebrapot adaptation I’ll send you a couple lengths of SS rudder cable, swage crimps and the spare SS clip for a side bail. The only hard part of that adaptation was getting the original Zerbapot bail handle off.
I have lots of leftover SS rudder cable and crimps, and I’ll lose that leftover clip long before I ever find another use for it. Those parts are in an envelope on the bench for you
Huh?
