Penny Stove?!

stingray4540

stingray4540

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Found this site while I was stumbling: http://www.csun.edu/~mjurey/stove.html

Has anyone made one of these? Looks cool, and I think I might try and make one, but I'm still not quite sure if I understand how you fill it with fuel and light it etc.

Also check out the wood stove, I think I would like that one even more, and it's use is pretty straight forward to me.

Anyways, anyone have experience with these? I have a little burner that fits on top of a small propane tank, but it just seems so bulky and heavy especially for only a one or two nighter.
 
Not specifically the Penny Stove design, but I have experience with similar alcohol burning stoves made from soda cans. Though they are suited best to mild conditions, they work well within their scope. I use them often.

With mine, I just pour the alcohol into the top, it goes into the hole/s, and then a strike on my firesteel and it's lit.
 
I built one and they work pretty well for an alcohol stove, and it weighs nothing. It takes maybe 10 minutes to boil the bigger pot, maybe 3/4 liter and less for the 1pt cup. To light it, you just fill up the top and light it, then while it heats up the fuel gets sucked into the main body and comes out the jets for the main burn.
I took it on a weekend camp along with an MSR whisperlite just in case. Ended up not needing the MSR. Haven't made the woodstove, i don't go many places that i can burn found wood :(
 
Do a search for whie box stove. I made one similar to it with a Snapple Energy aluminum bottle and it really works and is very sturdy.
 
hillst1 said:
Do a search for whie box stove. I made one similar to it with a Snapple Energy aluminum bottle and it really works and is very sturdy.
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Aha! I have been searching grocery stores for months trying to figure out what bottles they use. Now I have to find somewhere that sells Snapple Energy drinks.

As far as cheap stoves, I made the Pepsi-G stove. It was relatively easy to make, and works extremely well. I know a few people who have done thru-hikes of the AT with one, so durability should not be an issue.
 
I just made a couple of the "super cat" stoves, which are described in the link in the previous post. One is made form a 3 oz. catfood can and the other from a 4 oz. can of green chiles. On the small stove I put a row of holes too close to the bottom, which reduced the fuel capacity too much to be useful. I was more careful with the 4 oz. version and it works great!
 
The Cat Stove is very easy to make and you can get good results. Plan to make a few before you get it spot on though:D
 
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