Ok I've made my first pop can meths stove and I'm more than impressed with its performance.
It's double skinned and made from the base of two pop cans.
I've bonded it together with 4 minute fast dry liquid steel.
My own little touch was to add four small nails to use as a pot stand.
The stability of the cooker with the nails added is great, better than I could of wished for.
I've not done any time trials for the boiling of water etc, but being a hardened Trangia meths burner user, I got the idea that it boiled just as fast and as hot as my Trangia, with the added advantage of weighing less.
Well I'm giving this cooker to "The Duck", as his Trangia diead a death for reasons that only he knows ;-)
He refutes our claims that he was intoxicated and stepped back onto it down the forest, thus crushing the poor thing.
This piece of kit should win an award for its ingenuity,for the ready availabilty of the materials of its construction ( we are after all roughly speaking at the dawn of the apocalpyse - or possibly just after morning tea) and finally it should recive an award because its going to cook my dinner.
ReplyDeleteId hate to have to go back to the camping gas cookers that cant cook anything in the winter that i started with.
In human communication and experience there are three universals of human modelling: deletions. distortions and generalisations.
This is exemplified perfectly by the big guy choosing to believe that i had broken my cooker by stepping back on it in some drunken state, when i mentioned at the time that i had broken it actually by screwing the lid too tight and the seal broke when i was unscrewing it as a result of that overtightening.
However Despite the Big Guys selective amnesia obviously a result of the Post traumatic Stress Disorder created for both of us on our last sortie when in winetr we faced an insect ivasion from hell, Id like to say a sincere Thank you to the big guy for saving my ass with this one or more correctly my belly.
Nice one mate:)
Before you accuse me of getting the phrase - "three universals of human modelling" from a book i'll admit i did.
However should i be berated on this suffice it to say i can explain that without referring to the book because i have digested it internally and made it my own so there.
respect:)
I'm glad you like it mate, you're very welcome. Lets just hope that we never get another weekend of slugs and torrential rain.
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it Topgear left a night before us....hmmmmmm...maybe he left the slugs, but how can we explain the rain !
Now on my second build of the Hannah Stove
ReplyDeletehttp://ygingras.net/b/2007/6/a-better-soda-can-stove
Made some improvements to make the fuel vaporise better. Blog entry coming soon once I've perfected the design.