penny alcohol stove

If you backpack into remote fishing territory you'll want a lightweight
stove. I made one of these:

http://tinyurl.com/loz7hx

It works very well -- weighs almost nothing and boils 2 cups of water in
about 5 minutes. You can even cook things like rice using the "simmer
ring" that allows slow, low-heat cooking.

It's fun to make, too, but you might get loaded on Heineken beer (yuck!)
before you're finished.

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On Sep 9, 10:59*am, rw wrote:
If you backpack into remote fishing territory you'll want a lightweight
stove. I made one of these:

* * * *http://tinyurl.com/loz7hx

It works very well -- weighs almost nothing and boils 2 cups of water in
about 5 minutes. You can even cook things like rice using the "simmer
ring" that allows slow, low-heat cooking.

It's fun to make, too, but you might get loaded on Heineken beer (yuck!)
before you're finished.


I've been using an alcohol stove for backpacking trips for a while
now. Very happy I switched. Became a bit of a stove freak, making a
bunch of different designs and trying to tweak them to work a bit
better. After making a few dozen different ones (the good old Pepsi
can stove being my favorite,) I ended up buying one from Brasslite
that now has hundreds of trail miles and who-knows-how-many meals
under its belt.

Oddly enough, I don't use it for fishing-only trips. For those, I
prefer the MSR pocket rocket. Simple to use and boils water pretty
well. YMMV, of course.

If you're into making stoves (warning, may be habit forming -- there's
some odd sense of accomplishment for me in making something so useful
and simple out of what is essentially trash) check out the archive:
http://wings.interfree.it/html/main.html There are a zillion more
out there, but most are some sort of variant on the basic Henderson
Pepsi stove.

-Dan

Daniel-San wrote:

I've been using an alcohol stove for backpacking trips for a while
now. Very happy I switched. Became a bit of a stove freak, making a
bunch of different designs and trying to tweak them to work a bit
better. After making a few dozen different ones (the good old Pepsi
can stove being my favorite,) I ended up buying one from Brasslite
that now has hundreds of trail miles and who-knows-how-many meals
under its belt.

Oddly enough, I don't use it for fishing-only trips. For those, I
prefer the MSR pocket rocket. Simple to use and boils water pretty
well. YMMV, of course.

If you're into making stoves (warning, may be habit forming -- there's
some odd sense of accomplishment for me in making something so useful
and simple out of what is essentially trash) check out the archive:
http://wings.interfree.it/html/main.html There are a zillion more
out there, but most are some sort of variant on the basic Henderson
Pepsi stove.

I admire the folks who came up with the design and the amazingly
complete and clear instructions on the web. Making the stove was far
easier than "tying" Gummy Minnows. :-)

My stove version 1.0 was a rough cut -- out-of-round, ragged edges, off
kilter, and poorly sealed -- but it still worked. I took my time and
learned my lessons on stove 2.0. Version 2.1 will be a gift.

Anyone who likes tying flies, or handcrafts of any kind, would probably
enjoy building an alcohol stove.

The Penny Stove has some interesting properties. The Heineken cans it's
made from have an unusual shape, so the pieces fit together in an
interesting and I think functional way. The "penny" holds a reservoir of
alcohol on top, until the stove starts jetting and the alcohol boils,
causing the top reservoir to drain into the fuel cup.

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