2nd attempt at pop can stove stand, nailed it!

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Amon81

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A while back I wanted to make a very solid stand for my pop can stoves.

It worked good but the sweet spot was above the top of the stand. It worked great for slowly cooking stuff, but I wanted something that used the full potential of the stoves.

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Like this one that boils water faster than my trangia

A few photos of Version 1, I made it out of 1mm aluminium but it went soft so remade it out of mild steel. That's really when I found out it was too short.

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It would boil water, but much slower that it should of done.

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Really there is much better.

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The way the flames came out the air holes meant it dose cook stuff nice and slowly.

So today I made the Version 2.

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Made a template, didn't quite follow it, but came in handy.

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Loving my new angle grinder!

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JUST fit in my belt grinder to smooth the edges.

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I wanted to make sure there was plenty of air holes, Good thing about mild steel, it wont go soft with heat.

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Drilled all at 5mm at first.

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Then Drilled them all to 10mm.

Next I used a 13mm Drill bit to counter sink both sides of every hole.

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Unsurprisingly it bent with all the drilling, but I just used the vise to straighten it all out again. I've seen people hammer stuff flat. A vise is easier and less effort.

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Done.

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I don't have a stove to hand, but there it is with a can in it.
 

Amon81

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I know just holding my Ti pot with 600ml of water over the stove it takes 4:30 to bring to a rolling boil, on the old stand it took 7 minutes.

I should get time tomorrow to test it out.
 

Amon81

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I tested it today. Only a quick one. Just fried some black pudding and got about 800ml to a boil. I didn't time it, but no question its right at the sweet spot. In fact I nearly burnt the black pudding it cooked that quickly

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Right at the sweet spot!

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Nice tasty snack out of the test.

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Very stable

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Also loving my new bushpot!

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Cooked the black pudding and boiled the water in the 8 minutes the full stove burns for.
 
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