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thoughts on this?
http://www.antigravitygear.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=3_39_40&products_id=55
Boo8meR: Try going to http://wings.interfree.it/index.html and check it out. A really great site, lots of different stove plans to try. Most simple AND cheap to make.
if you're asking about the viability of such a stove to actually work, it does. i use a smaller (lighter) one that i made from two small V-8 drink cans (SGT Rock's Ion Stove).if you're asking about that particular source, i can't tell you as i have no experience with them.
Hammock Hanger
11-08-2005, 19:09
thoughts on this?
http://www.antigravitygear.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=3_39_40&products_id=55
I have this one and it works great. Don't ask me how many seconds it take to boil water etc.. I don't do those test I just use it to cook dinner after a day on the trail. Sue
I made several of these and gave them to friends.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/photonstove/stove/HighPerfAlcoholStove.html
wow thanks for the video lobo! It makes getting a stove up and cooking look easy. Sometimes when I use my bruton, I feel like I'm trying to start a jet engine with out an engineering degree :datz
I just bought the 3 cup package from antigravitiygear. It should be here by Nov. 18th.
I can't wait to try it out.
SGT Rock
11-13-2005, 22:11
thoughts on this?
http://www.antigravitygear.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=3_39_40&products_id=55
It works, but it isn't my favorite. You can also make that stove if you want to give it a try. All it costs is a little time and two trashed soda cans.
I used one on most of my 05 thru-hike and it worked well.
Draggin
After looking at the gas stoves for so many years behind glass at the local hikeshop...Now a Soda Can stove ???
I was a non beliver until I saw one in action. http://www.minibulldesign.com/vidoperation.htm
So I ordered the 10 pound pack CD / stove / bottle combo, strolled to the local hardware for a pint of Denatured Alchohol and began my home experiment.
~1 oz fuel
1 pt cold water
out of doors
wind blowing
no screen or lid (worst case conditions)
It did bring it to a rolling boil and I was warmed as well.
I would suggest a wind screen, and a broader support then just the soda can stove top ( for stability )
So my vote is in favor of the soda can stove.
AMAZING and completly renewable !
rds
I never thought I would go the alch. stove way until recently, when as a gift I recieved the AGG stove, along with a whoel starter set (windscreen, primer ring, fuel bottle). I don't think I will go back to my canister stove except for winter and car camping. The stoves are SO simple and so easy to use! That and my testing for times were barely longer than using my canister stove-without all the roaring sound. Gotta love that....
This is the lightest and most fuel efficient stove I've built to date.
http://jwbasecamp.com/Articles/SuperCat/index.html
I did not follow the directions on the site. I just took a common paper hole punch, punched a bunch of holes as far down the can as I could reach (I think I made 13 or 14 holes), and then punched a matching # of holes as close to the rim and directly above the first set. Pot (1.3l Evernew ti) sits directly on stove, low height makes for a windscreen which packs in the pot with room to spare.
Boil time for 16 oz. cold tap water in windless conditions at about 50F was about 5 min. (not timed perfectly). Boil was accomplished on 1/2 oz. denatured alcohol.