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I tried one of these but the smell of so much burning wax turned my stomach, and i was outside with plenty of ventilation! Anyone else had similar effects?
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Looks good. I remember making them when I was in the scouts. Your pot stand looks good too - any details on that?
The pot stand is made from 3mm welding rods with the flux removed. It quite easy construction but quite hard to put into words. This picture should make sense:
Sabre iom - Theres not much smell from the burning wax at all - You can't really smell anything when using it outdoors. What wax did you use?
Sabre iom - Theres not much smell from the burning wax at all - You can't really smell anything when using it outdoors. What wax did you use?
As far as i remember it was just a standard house hold candle i used , and it gave off a real strong smell when i used it. Even though i was outdoors, when i had to adjust my cup etc and got near the stove it gave off such a sickly odour i never tried it again . Maybe i should have peservered with a different type of wax 
Your stand is a good piece of home engineering, i used aluminium strips which folded into the top of the tin.
Your stand is a good piece of home engineering, i used aluminium strips which folded into the top of the tin.
I made those with some kids a few years back.
We used a small cat food tin with the top lip tottaly removed and lined it with foil. One the wax had set we pulled it all out trimmed the foil, wrapped a 1/2" strip of gaffer tape round the outside and used them as dispoable stoves.
Asda was the best place for wax, at the time it was 100 tea lights for £1, we used 5 per stove and poked the wicks into the card board to give a good spread of flames.
The pot stand was three metal tent pegs banged into the ground round the stove.
I have just rememberd that somebody made one in a sweet corn tin that had been cut down and bent over to fit in a trangia. You could probably use yours in the miltary versions quite well.
We used a small cat food tin with the top lip tottaly removed and lined it with foil. One the wax had set we pulled it all out trimmed the foil, wrapped a 1/2" strip of gaffer tape round the outside and used them as dispoable stoves.
Asda was the best place for wax, at the time it was 100 tea lights for £1, we used 5 per stove and poked the wicks into the card board to give a good spread of flames.
The pot stand was three metal tent pegs banged into the ground round the stove.
I have just rememberd that somebody made one in a sweet corn tin that had been cut down and bent over to fit in a trangia.
You could probably use yours in the miltary versions quite well.
This reminds me of the trangia-style burners you can make out of soda cans. It's really easy and the burners are light and efficient.
There's one swedish guy who made a really nice set of instructions, you've probably all seen this before:
http://www.andersj.se/koket3.htm
unfortunatly the text is in swedish but if you don't get the picture from the pics, you shouldn't go camping
(and no, it's not my site!
There's one swedish guy who made a really nice set of instructions, you've probably all seen this before:
http://www.andersj.se/koket3.htm
unfortunatly the text is in swedish but if you don't get the picture from the pics, you shouldn't go camping
(and no, it's not my site!
big_swede said:and that's even better...
Has anyone ever made and used a Coke can stove?
I made a few of these last year and have found them to be very good.
Have a loo here ; http://www.pcthiker.com/pages/gear/overviewpepsiGstove.shtml
John
I put this together a while ago.
I didn't bother marking out or using scissors or a hole punch as i wanted to try a real "hobo" approach so this is just made from 2 beer cans and i used a SAK "Soldier" to cut everything.
I wanted to make this as simply as possible and i didn't want to use tape to hold it together so i just crimped the edges a little and it held fine.
Fill with meths or in this case Industrial spirits (i use this in my trangia as it burns much cleaner and doesn't soot up the pot's as much).
When it light the flame's only comes from the centre.
After a few seconds the flames start to come out the holes round the side.
I moved into the shed for these pic's as the flames are hard to see in daylight.
It's strong and stable enough to support a crusader cup and one fill was more than enough to bring a half full cup to a roaring boil and it was surprisingly quick.
5 min's turns 2 empty can's into a stove that cost's about as much as it weighs (nothing).
rb
I didn't bother marking out or using scissors or a hole punch as i wanted to try a real "hobo" approach so this is just made from 2 beer cans and i used a SAK "Soldier" to cut everything.
I wanted to make this as simply as possible and i didn't want to use tape to hold it together so i just crimped the edges a little and it held fine.
Fill with meths or in this case Industrial spirits (i use this in my trangia as it burns much cleaner and doesn't soot up the pot's as much).
When it light the flame's only comes from the centre.
After a few seconds the flames start to come out the holes round the side.
I moved into the shed for these pic's as the flames are hard to see in daylight.
It's strong and stable enough to support a crusader cup and one fill was more than enough to bring a half full cup to a roaring boil and it was surprisingly quick.
5 min's turns 2 empty can's into a stove that cost's about as much as it weighs (nothing).
rb
rapidboy that´s a nice design for the real case of emergency: take pocket knife and convert a road find into a semiuseful thing of gear.
Of course a little bit too much work - with 2 cans of different diameter (beer & RB)) you´d be off with a lot less effort: big can 2" taller than smaller can, 1" hole in bottom of bigger can. Insulate smaller can with flat piece of wood from ground (make sure to have a gap allowing airflow into the bigger can), fill with alc., ingnite und put bigger can with bottom up over it. Yes, the bigger can is just the air guide and nozzle. Use tent sticks as a pot holder
Did you ever test the effiency (fuel consumption to boiling time ratio) of your design?
about half of the pot bottom isn´t heated .....
Of course a little bit too much work - with 2 cans of different diameter (beer & RB)) you´d be off with a lot less effort: big can 2" taller than smaller can, 1" hole in bottom of bigger can. Insulate smaller can with flat piece of wood from ground (make sure to have a gap allowing airflow into the bigger can), fill with alc., ingnite und put bigger can with bottom up over it. Yes, the bigger can is just the air guide and nozzle. Use tent sticks as a pot holder
Did you ever test the effiency (fuel consumption to boiling time ratio) of your design?
about half of the pot bottom isn´t heated .....
gregorach said:I use a tiny little stove made from 2 red bull cans in my Crusader cooker. There's a thread on it here. It's a slightly different approach - it uses a coin over the fill hole to build up some pressure.
I use the Red Bull/Toast Topper combo with a slightly different design, which could be used in a Rapidboy hobo stove style.
Instead of cutting a circle, from the top half can, I make a couple of smallish holes part way up the innner side dome. None on the very bottom. This mean that you can pour your meths straight onto the top (inverted )dome, First 5 or so millilitres fill up the domw and are the priming fuel, when it reaches the bottom of the holes it flows into the inner can becomes the main fuel. Less effort than Rapidboy's orignal and also means less chance of slipping and cutting oneself with a folding blade
tecNik said:
I use this priciple for my emergency stove. I always keep a strip of corrugated card in my emergency kit with a spare tea light, scrape the outside of the tealight down, wrap with the cardboard and place back in the foil.
I've had reasonable sucess using the corrugated card, in just the tea light case, using parafin/lamp oil, the trick was to take a drawing pin and pierce the card along it's bottom edge ( or small slits with a knife ) to let the lamp oil flow into the gaps in the card so it can soak up the fuel more easily.
Both these tend to leave a bit of a sticky mess behind but worth the effort of the extra clean up, caused by playing with a couple of times, just so you know you can do it if you have to.
cyclist said:
It's not my design , i can't remember the link but it was from an online source.
My father lost his trangia on a days hike last winter, (dog sent it flying over a cliff
) and he returned home cold and miserable.Now unfortunately the mountains are far from pristine these days and it's all too easy to find an empty drinks can so i made that one from a single beer just to prove that a very serviceable stove could be made in an emergency.
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