Neat Camping Stove - Inexpensive, lightweight, compact...

[NightHawked]

Looks to be worthy, you decide.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=431851&highlight=stever+stove

[Bumblebee]

Interesting pennytech solution. I wonder how well it works in sub zero temperatures.


I think I'll stick to the more expensive stoves I have that have proven themselves over and over. Besides, white gas is cheaper by the gallon and has a screw on cap.

I wonder if it'll run on isopropyl alcohol. I'm thinking it will. Next time I find a pop can laying around somewhere and have time I'll make one of those to see how it works.

[Option13]

My uncle gave a little stove like that built out of two beer cans. To me, they're just too fragile. I've got a jetboil stove that is pretty cool, but my favorite by far is still my little Svea 123



Burns practically anything you put in it, and sounds like a jet engine while doing it. My dad found it in a dumpster while he was in college, and I sometimes break it out just to watch it do it's thing.

[NightHawked]

From what i read i only saw it tested to around freezing. Other fuels were mentioned and a source for larger quantities of "HEET". I would ideally use fuel bottles when carried on the bike. Someone mentioned it might have been made from a aluminum beer bottle but i have also seen similar ones made from aluminum cans but this looked to be a tad better.

[Bumblebee]

Someone mentioned it might have been made from a aluminum beer bottle but i have also seen similar ones made from aluminum cans but this looked to be a tad better.

If you have a damaged MSR type fuel bottle, you could cut the bottom off, drill holes and use that.

[NightHawked]

Yes i would think so, but i believe they said it has two pieces put together, hence the pop rivits to hold it together. Don't know haven't got one yet. I don't know if it is two bottoms put together or a bottom put into a middle section don't remember if it has a bottom with the outsides. Don't know. Might be able to use a Seafoam bottle, no?

[Bumblebee]

The rivets are holding a shaped inner wall in place. It's a bit like a vacuum thermos design with a leak between the container and the vacuum section. The fuel flows from the center into the outer section and up then ignites and the flame goes out the holes. The middle section is the fuel tank, the outer wall gap is the combustion chamber.
It should be able to run on just about anything liquid that burns.

[NightHawked]

Do i understand this correctly. The middle, where you pour the fuel in does not ignite only around the edge and threw the holes.
Looking at the 6th pic do i see a inverted bottle with the threads cut off and put into the bottom of the bottle?

[Bumblebee]

Do i understand this correctly. The middle, where you pour the fuel in does not ignite only around the edge and threw the holes.

Sort of correct.
You ignite the center during the initial startup to heat up and vaporize the fuel in the outer walls at which time the outer section will run on it's own once it's ignites. It's the same basic principle as a normal camp stove with the fuel line going across the burner area - that pipe is there specifically to vaporize the fuel to a temperature where it will combust easily. Once it's running, if the center goes out for any reason, it will stay running through the side holes.
The colder the ambient air and fuel temperature, the more useful igniting the center section will be.

[NightHawked]

I think  I think  I got it. Damn that's 

[bajakirch]

I forwarded the link over to a buddy of mine that's a thermodynamics engineer and a fellow Boy Scout leader. He's also a tinkerer that could probably whip something like this up in his sleep. I suggested we think about having each Boy Scout make his own.

He reminded me that we're talking about teenage boys here -- they don't need any MORE reasons to play with open flames and combustible liquids.

[NightHawked]

So does he feed them a lot of sandwiches on the overnighters or just runs to Burger King. I thought that's a good idea but I'm not a troop leader.

[bajakirch]

So does he feed them a lot of sandwiches on the overnighters or just runs to Burger King. I thought that's a good idea but I'm not a troop leader.

We mostly rock the propane.

[ariwhiteboy]

Pretty cool, er.. .

Don't know. Might be able to use a Seafoam bottle, no?

I have an empty one in the garage. Might give it a try and let y'all know how it works.

[NightHawked]

I took a look at one after i posted. I don't know why but i thought they might of been aluminum. I was thinking of taking a walk around the neighborhood on recycling night and look for aluminum beer bottles, for some reason i think of those. In any case good luck with your build. Keep us posted.

[bajakirch]

I believe the guy selling them said his are made of .025" aluminum and pointed out that it's not made of beer can/bottle material.

[NightHawked]

I believe the guy selling them said his are made of .025" aluminum and pointed out that it's not made of beer can/bottle material.

You are correct, he did state the .025 thickness and that it was more sturdy than a aluminum can. I thought someone asked if they were aluminum beer bottles and i don't remember seeing him ansewer. I am no expert on this but i thought the aluminum bottles were thicker than the cans. Anyway i thought it looked like a neck of a bottle was used and the beer bottle came to mind. Don't know.