Easy and great, wood+alchohol homemade backpacking stove

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TheMaskedMarauder

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The other day, while planning a backpacking trip with some friends, I was confronted with the issue of requiring a backpacking stove to take with us. I definately wasn't planning on spending unrealistic amounts of money driving around and searching the town for one, so I sat and thought about how I could get one to work on my own. Here's the solution I came up with, and it works like a champ!!!

Requirements: two pots, one smaller, one bigger, power drill, 2 screws, 4 washers.

So here's how this puppy works. It's very basic: the smaller pot is face up, and has a fire rip roaring inside of it. The bigger pot sits upside down on top of the smaller pot, becoming hot and creating a cooking surface. The bigger pot sits evenly on top of the smaller pot by drilling two screws into the smaller pot to act as "handles" to hold the bigger pot in place and the washers keep the screws in place. Just a drop of cheap 70% or such rubbing alchohol gets the party started. from there, just keep tossing in bark, twigs, wood, whatever you need.
I've tested this on a hiking trip and it works like a champ. It packs up well and doesn't take up so much space and is easy to clean, since it consists of two pots and no moving parts, it's almost impossible to break on a hiking or backpacking trip. Even without the alchohol to help start the fire, you can just use the scraps and wood, but the alchohol sure assists in getting it started and keeping it going.
Well, I'd love hear some comments and see what you guys think!
 
I've been looking into getting one of those little Pepsi can stoves for a while (anyone here sell them?)
This seems like a pretty good alterntive.. But I'd hate to be me if I start drilling holes in my girls expensive @$$ pots..
 
I can sell you a pespi can stove.

Just 93$, with instructions, and FREE SHIPPING worldwide ! ;)

Seriously :rolleyes: -- you gotta be trolling here my friend ;)

Cheers,

David
 
If you drink Pepsi, Coke, DP, Sprite, Bud, whatever you can make your own. They're way too easy.
 
I'm a big fan of the hobo stove made out of an old 1lb coffie can. I can make one in @ 10 min with a SAK.
 
heres one I made using chimney tape and two pepsi cans. It runs off of mineral spirits, or any alcohol. I usually can have a cup boiling in about a min and a half, uses tent stakes to hold the pot over it. The most light weight and economical stove I own!

it also has a little piece of insulation, yellow fiberglass type stuff, that soaks up the material

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:thumbup: cheaper than a pocket rocket, yet the fuel works great in the cold!
 
Here's one of my soda can models, found how to do it long ago somewhere on the web, no tape, no holes.

Top of can is removed with can opener, bottom is cut off about 1 1/4 inch high, top is cut about 2 inches high, sides of top part are marked in slots all around with fingernail, lower part of top is pushed inward at several places all around so that it can be forced inside bottom part, works fine with simple alcohol.

Have to use with care and only with a small pot (such as an aluminum cup) because it's not very stable. Put some alcohol in and light, when a small pot is put over, it covers the large hole on top and nice blue flames come out all around.

Luis

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While not an alcohol stove and one that has been described many times. I like the cardboard and parrafin wax can. I have made both but prefer it for milder cmaping. Once it cools it will not leak and is as easy to carry as the alcohol stove.

Take a can and cut it in 1/3, using the bottom. Cut a long stip of cardboard as wide as the can is tall. Then roll the corrugated cardboard up and shov it into the can so that it looks like a spiral as you look down. Pour/Fill it with melted Parrafin wax. I used this to heat many late night cans of Spagetti-Ohs in my cabin at summer camp.

Badge54
 
interesting. I've never heard of cans being used like that. I'd be afraid to use a little thin can for fiiire. I stopped by a thrift shop and picked up to clean pots perfectly sized for a buck each. Yeah, like I would drill a hole in a nice cooking pot. I'd hate for one of those tiny cans to tip during use, but it sure sounds interesting.
 
The can stove has been used by many over the years. Just do a search on the web for them and you'll find them all over the place. They can tip if you are not carefull. Set them on a rock or solid flat surface and you have to cook small.
Badge54
 
on the woodsmaster sticks,stoves,and stitches tape Alan Halcon shows you how to make a pop can stove. his has an inner wall to build pressure for the jets he puts on it.
 
Badge54 said:
While not an alcohol stove and one that has been described many times. I like the cardboard and parrafin wax can. I have made both but prefer it for milder cmaping. Once it cools it will not leak and is as easy to carry as the alcohol stove.

Take a can and cut it in 1/3, using the bottom. Cut a long stip of cardboard as wide as the can is tall. Then roll the corrugated cardboard up and shov it into the can so that it looks like a spiral as you look down. Pour/Fill it with melted Parrafin wax. I used this to heat many late night cans of Spagetti-Ohs in my cabin at summer camp.

Badge54
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I've used something like this as well, but I use old altoids citrus sour tins. That way you can still toss the lid on it (with gloves on) to put out the fire and reuse. Not my 1st choice for stoves, but they work will for the law of 3's. I can use them with my esbit stove also, they fit into it well.
 
Halcon said:
sorry there is no figure 12. I will change it

Alan
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Never mind ,I found fig 12, it's right in front of me!! Neet stove , just had to try.:D
 
What I do carry is an MSR multi fuel. Yes yes I know ya gotta carry something, but what happens when ya inadvertantly crush the can stove?
 
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