Beverage Can Stove
 

You guys ever build or use one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_can_stove

I got a care package from my parents this afternoon that had one (yeah, and some silver but we can keep that on the DL) in it that my brother built. I'm warming some water for tea in it right now using isopropyl alcohol as fuel.

Works great although I think my brother's craftsmanship is considerably above average.

Thoughts?

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I made one a couple of years ago. When using Home Depot denatured alcohol it took ten minutes to boil two cups of water.

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Is denatured 90%?

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i have used the commercial variety for many years on hiking/camping and love them because of their lightness,simplicity and clean burning



i think as the altitude increases and temp decreases they are not quite as effective.

i run mine on metho in Australia or denatured alcohol in USA which im pretty sure is the same thing.

moonshine/grain alcohol is another fuel source

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Gotta pic?

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Geez, give me some time and I will put one up

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I'll make them on the spot with no directions now. I also like the small V8 cans when I'm packing extra light.

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Here's one I use a lot. This guy has some other designs as well. http://hikinghq.net/sgt_stove/sgt_v8stove1.html

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another option is one mother nature provides...just burn wood, twigs setting your cooking pot on rocks...

i've used several camping stoves through the years but then when i started going lightweight and then ultralightweight backpacking i dropped carrying a stove and fuel altogether and just gather wood when camping below treeline and twigs from brush above treeline...if i'm going above the brushline and there is nothing to burn i'll fill up a gallon baggy with dry twigs to carry with me just before i run out of available fuel...

don't need a stove, i've had small woodburning hobo stoves i've made but they aren't necessary either...just take a few minutes and set up some rocks to cook on and build a windscreen with rocks too...i do carry a bit of aluminum foil to help as a windscreen just in case i need it in really windy conditions...

but as a backup in case wood is wet i use a product called Esbit tablets they are imported from germany...they weigh ~1/2 ounce and can cook a meal...they burn for approx. 12 minutes...

the combination of wood or esbit tablet is the lightest backpacking method to heat food...

heres an esbit demo i did a few years ago...i don't carry the esbit stove shown in the photo...unnecessary weight that stays at home...just do a setup on rocks same as burning with wood...

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one other thing...if you want to start a small campfire and the wood is a little damp and not cooperating an esbit tablet works well in getting one going and is an excellent survival addition to your backpack...

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http://wings.interfree.it/

38 designs for stoves made from found materials.

This no-frames, no frills website is dedicated to those brave experimenters spending time in building their own backpacking stoves or modifying commercial made ones. When I did my searches on this topic it turned out to be a very difficult task to find out about models quoted in discussions groups and web boards. URLs are not always mentioned, links show tendencies to expire and change. So here is to you The Archives.
The policy here is kept simple: when interesting material is found on the net, a written request is sent by e-mail to the experimenter, asking the permission to re-publish her/his work on this website. The original material is kept as-is, the only modification will be applied to frames (no framing allowed here!) if this can be done without significant changes to the original pages. The author's website URL will be included as a link to the main page. An editor's note could be added and kept separated by the author's work. Anyone willing to submit her/his works, tips, findings, schemes, pictures, drawings, links, hints and kinks is warmly welcome:

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i'm gonna tell a mishap camp stove story on myself...

it was 1983 and my buddy and i had just bought new snowmachines and we were itching to ride...

so i talked him into going caribou hunting with me up the haul road for the central arctic caribou herd that hangs out just north of the brooks range...we loaded up the machines and our gear and away we went. i had bought a really small camping stove that summer and i thought what the heck, i can throw this thing in my daypack and take it with me on the snowmachine so when we get some caribou down we can warm our hands as we gut them out...

it was a grand trip...we spent a night at fairbanks, another at the yukon river and one more at coldfoot. we offloaded our snowmachines for pleasure riding at several locations...caribou mountain, jim's river, and others.

so we slip and slide up atigun pass and then slip and slide down the other side, drive some more and offload and head out about 5 miles off the road where the herd was...thousands of caribou.

it was cold, 30 below zero...but we got our caribou and when we were gutting them out i pulled my stove out and tried to get it going and thats when i realized i had brought a butane stove and butane doesn't vaporize and burn at 30 below...haha.