i like to make everything pull together. so to speak... for time my staple travel food is cocoa - has more protein than fresh beef allegedly (ref: kephart). powder makes the lightest, smallest carry. here in highland its normal you dont have to carry water! skimmed milk is not so good. full fat or ewes milk might be used but easiest to get is good old sma baby milk! this also has extensive mineral and vitamin supplement......SO.. i' have a lot of the 900g red tins. for ages i've been wanting to use one to make a stove, i've got various stainless schemes on the go but don,t have adequate tooling etc to make my bits work (!). if been collecting soo many pots and tins for years. this easter..YEEHA, an easter egg gift came in a small tin thomas the tank engine bucket! putting it on the tilt it passes through the top of the sma tin. horizontal it rests perfectly on the lip!!! such a bucket could be formed with a riveter from scrap sma tins. following youtube stylee, zen stove stylee wood gas stove pattern i've come down to a potstand height of approx. 1"+, also cut from sma tin this is a split ring i form with cut down stainless spokes anda vey small fish can in the middle. this ends up rigid enough ican open and close it to stand over the main sma tin while its burning- even with a mug resting on top. as back up i have a choice of meths burners i have military and civvi trangias but now have a brasso tin one filled with wire wool (ive had to cut it down to keep enough core heat it stays alight when the laphroaig box lid primer tray goes out.) also a handy tin for a burner- vo5 texturising gum!!! (hate the product love the tin!) its ally with a screw cap.its biggest fault is its lightness of guage once first burnt i couldnt open it without distorting the tin! the biggest reason for so much detail? - the meths burner in the gasifier puts out collossal heat! with double gasification. jet holes on the bucket- about 4mm, inlet on the sma alternate 4 and 8mm. all meths burner jets, the point of a needle - not the diameter of the needle. smaller jets, higher pressure, higher heat. oh, theres a tin lid too...go to jewsons they have tins of too thin cutting discs, the lid fits. this rig seems more sensible than most ive seen you have open fire, wood stove, no chimney stack, big billy size - so lies nicely between afull on woodstove and a mess kit. it can smoke little enough that i can be in my canvas tent. no sparks too. Sori im not clever enough to load piccies! illegitimi non carborundum
) yesterday out of a large dogfood tin and a smaller tin, and used a church key(?) tin opener to make holes, will try that putty.
