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A Stove MacGyver Would be Proud of

PAULBACH

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Need a convenient camping stove that should cost pennies to make?

Try this link

You might try emptying beer cans instead of soda cans - less filling!
 
I've had a similar stove bookmarked for some time, but your link made it look super easy compared to the one I viewed.

Thanks!
 
Paul
I used that very video and made a few of those stoves. I lasts for almost 10 minutes and will boil 12 ounces of water in about 7 minutes. These are very cool stoves that will impress many people when you pull it out of your tank bag and make some hot coco at a park by the side of the road. :thumb
 
yeaaahhh... so, how long does it run? is "heet" the only stuff you can use? If so, where do you guys find it? Or do I go to REI and get some "camp stove" fuel?
 
Heet is available in almost any gas station nation wide, also truck stops, all auto parts stores and Wally World. This alcohol type stove will also run on rubbing alcohol, denatured alcohol, or even Everclear. Heet burns the cleanest and does not soot up as the other fuels will (greater purity.) DO NOT use Coleman fuel it will blow.

The down side is alcohol puts out a very cool temperature realitive to other types of more common backpacking stoves. Also you need to accurately judge the amount of fuel needed to warm whatever it is you are cooking as you can't add fuel to a burning or hot stove. It usually takes about 1 to 1.5 oz's of fuel to bring 2 cups of water to a boil in calm wind and dependent on the quality of the individual stove. I have a cute little brass one and have made dozens with Boy Scout groups.

One nice advantage is they make 0 noise. Ever notice when solo camping how quiet it gets when you turn off the typical pressurized gas stove?

I'm ready for the riding season.:bikes
 
Neat stove

Great Video. Great stove! Gona make one today. One question. One point.

Question: Where would you get fiberglass?

Point: Heet is an ingredient used as a precuser for meth. Some places won't even sell it anymore.

:usa
 
Question: Where would you get fiberglass?

Looks like wall insulation to me. Heck, would be easy enough to make a couple of these and throw them in your bag.
 
Looks like insulation fiberglass. The material has to hold the liquid and yet not burn up with the heat. These "stoves" would even make dandy fire starters.
 
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Also you need to accurately judge the amount of fuel needed to warm whatever it is you are cooking as you can't add fuel to a burning or hot stove. It usually takes about 1 to 1.5 oz's of fuel to bring 2 cups of water to a boil in calm wind and dependent on the quality of the individual stove. I have a cute little brass one and have made dozens with Boy Scout groups.

That's why I like the store bought Trangia burner. I can fill it up, cook what I want, extinguish the flame, then, after a short wait for it to cool down, put the o-ring sealed cover on the burner to save any alcohol that happens to be left in the stove. I use it with a click-stand. The whole thing packs up small, stored inside the stuff sack that holds the rest of my cooking gear.

Here are thumbnails of the burner and the burner in the clickstand. More pictures at http://www.snafu.org/pics/misc/stove/

<img src="http://www.snafu.org/pics/misc/stove/t-20080307-1824-3647.jpg" title="Trangia burner"> <img src="http://www.snafu.org/pics/misc/stove/t-20080307-1825-3648.jpg" title="burner in clickstand">

// marc
 
I have a Snow Peak for camping but I'm going to make up a couple of those for spares just to carry in the top case. Great idea!:idea Very creative:thumb
 
My son made one of the more complex ones mentioned earlier. Works pretty good, but the one in the video looks easier to make.
 
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