My wife was going to throw away a kitchen sieve as the mesh had started to come away from the circular frame. Not being one to wast anything I cut the mesh away with a pair of old scissors and now I have a pretty nice piece of stainless steel wire mesh to use.... not sure what I'll do with it yet but I'm sure it will come in handy!
Test it with a gas flame to see if it survives red hot heat. If it does, good for burner cap screens etc. If it does not, still good for Coleman generators or Petromax vaporisers.
I saw a recent video of a Canadian outdoors man who made a nice lamp mesh replacement for a broken glass unit on a Coleman lantern dual fuel 285 ... surprisingly this is so sound and the light / lumens thrown out by the ignited mantles was hardly dimmed at all .... well a mantle burst open and cracked the glass on my Vapalux M320 ... and with a heavy duty stapler ... it is good and now of course my lamp is knock proof.. no glass in ... steel holds up .. a light " blueing " . is. hardly noticeable ... cost me about 12 pounds for a sheet ... I have made 1. for a coleman 5153 propane lantern ( twin mantle ) another for a vapalux M320 ..and 3... a smaller one for a small butane lamp .. I must be little clumsy eh !!!!! I attached the YT video from Explorer mike ... hey what a good idea .. if you have any stainless mesh about ? He gives full instructions ,
Very interesting stuff, see that's the problem we live in a throw away society. If I think I can use it I will, that's what we were taught to do as children and besides we were poor so nothing went to waste This thread shows the initiative of people when we put our minds to it well done.
Stainless steel mesh is no good for petromax vapouriser stuffing. Stainless steel has low heat conduction. That's why insulating cans made from stainless steel. Better use mesh for filtering. Eg. In filter funnel, or riser tube filter, or...
Yes, very poor.. put any amount of heat near it and it distorts badly. Funny stuff, looks all pretty when brushed and polished but as others have said it’s a fingerprint magnet.. Also difficult to drill and cut unless with the correct tools but will mark with a fingernail
Some grades of stainless hold up to heat better than others. You have to research the grade of stainless and then correlate that physical properties of that grade of SS. Many, many different alloys used across a broad range of applications. It has to be one of the most useful types of steel on the planet.
I find that some of the sieve meshings are not exactly stainless steel at all. They'll rust easily, especially those that had be used before. Maybe its just coated steel mesh.
You can check with magnet. Perfect stainless steel is almost not magnetic. If its coated steel mesh, it should be good magnetic.
Hi all .. I have used this Chinese mesh to great effect ... my M320 Vapalux was very easy to do and it belts out the lumens .. and of course no glass breakage ... you need a sharp pair of scissors and a really heavy duty stapler ... Steel mesh gauge 20 / 30 is about right .. please review .. a 20 " x 20 " will give two quasi glass cylinders with some left over for a smaller lamp .... whats there not to like ? Stainless Steel #4 to #400 Mesh Micron True Filtration Screen Fine Wire Filter | eBay ...
Some of the kitchen-utensils meshes are obviously magnetic. The irresistably cheaper ones especially. They'll rust pretty quickly, particularly those that had been abraded or heated in use before. If you wet those with salt water and allow to dry out naturally, the rusting can be observed overnight. Although they are magnetic, I'd doubt these are made of martensitic stainless due to their relatively higher costs compared to steel. Nevertheless, there are many genuine ones around at reasonable prices.
