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I actually did this little project a while ago. I just got around to taking pictures. It was a good colder weather project. I stumbled across instructions for making a pop can version of an alcohol stove over at PCT Hiker. However, going back to that site, it has changed drastically, and I can no longer find the article. Anyway, this is kind of a home-made, lightweight version of a Trangia stove.
Being that I had everything on hand (except the beer can ..and I didnt need much arm twisting to go buy those) I just had to give this a try.
By the time I got through the first one, and on to the second one, I was pretty good at cutting these things. On the first one, I was a bit surprised at how hard it was for me to punch the burner holes. Once I figured out a good technique, it was easy and went fast. Especially by the time I got to the second stove.
Here is a photo of the stove in action:
In this first picture, all of the flames coming out of the ports converge in the center giving it the illusion that the fuel is burning from the center, rather than the ports, but it is not.
The way to verify that statement is the "cup test." When something is placed above the stove, it is more apparent what the flames are doing.
I did a couple of experiments of fuel amounts and run time. This little stove is a neat little project, but from my experience with run times and fuel capacity of the Trangia, this wont be replacing one of those any time soon. Using ½ ounce of fuel, I could easily boil a cup of water (room temperature conditions). Varying fuel amounts, I could boil up to 1 ½ cups of water, but never able to get 2 cups to boil. I also took this outside and was able to boil one cup of water during the single digit temperatures that we were having at the time.
Still for the weight of this little thing, and the ability to boil a cup of water, it would still be adequate for making meals like those at the Freezer Bag Cooking site. It just does not seem like it would work out for boiling larger amounts for purification.
Being that I had everything on hand (except the beer can ..and I didnt need much arm twisting to go buy those) I just had to give this a try.
By the time I got through the first one, and on to the second one, I was pretty good at cutting these things. On the first one, I was a bit surprised at how hard it was for me to punch the burner holes. Once I figured out a good technique, it was easy and went fast. Especially by the time I got to the second stove.
Here is a photo of the stove in action:
In this first picture, all of the flames coming out of the ports converge in the center giving it the illusion that the fuel is burning from the center, rather than the ports, but it is not.
The way to verify that statement is the "cup test." When something is placed above the stove, it is more apparent what the flames are doing.
I did a couple of experiments of fuel amounts and run time. This little stove is a neat little project, but from my experience with run times and fuel capacity of the Trangia, this wont be replacing one of those any time soon. Using ½ ounce of fuel, I could easily boil a cup of water (room temperature conditions). Varying fuel amounts, I could boil up to 1 ½ cups of water, but never able to get 2 cups to boil. I also took this outside and was able to boil one cup of water during the single digit temperatures that we were having at the time.
Still for the weight of this little thing, and the ability to boil a cup of water, it would still be adequate for making meals like those at the Freezer Bag Cooking site. It just does not seem like it would work out for boiling larger amounts for purification.
