MAKE YOUR OWN SOLID FUEL OR ACLOHOL STOVE

Side and top view of stove with tabs bended in.


Introduction

This stove is design to burn solid fuel tablets (esbit, hexamine, or trioxane) or when lined with fiberglass insulation for burning aclohol. The stove also is a sturdy potstand. The stove weights 1 1/2 oz.

Tools for making the stove - tin snips, utility knife, pliers, ruler, pencil and sandpaper.


Materials List

Instructions

Take a clean 8 oz pinapple can and cut five 1 inch wide tabs in the top half of can. Bend tabs slightly out or in (the tabs would catch on things if bend out). Use tin snips and pliers to striaghten the tabs and sandpaper to smooth the edges. For burning aclohol, take a small amount of 3/16 inch fiberglass insulation and line the inside of the can. Place tablets in stove on end (when tablets are place on end instead of laying flat, they burned faster because greater surface area). Light tablets and cook.

Using an utility knife to cut tabs in can. Layout of the stove. Straight the tabs with tin snips.


Lighting the aclohol fuel.


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