Hey !
Here's my homemade stove. Anyone can make it in ½ hour. 86 grams= 3 oz - everything included. It boils 1½ cup, 350 ml cold water in 7 min using 12 grams of alcohol. It does as well take Espit or hot burning tree spots from the fireplace, but the burner-choise is all up to your own taste :-)
Happy trails........
Max
Skidsteer
03-13-2007, 21:37
Hey !
Here's my homemade stove. Anyone can make it in ½ hour. 86 grams= 3 oz - everything included. It boils 1½ cup, 350 ml cold water in 7 min using 12 grams of alcohol. It does as well take Espit or hot burning tree spots from the fireplace, but the burner-choise is all up to your own taste :-)
Happy trails........
Max
Very nice.
But "Everything" means different things to different folks in this racket.
Do you mind listing the components and weights? Trust me, we're interested. :)
toddhiker
03-13-2007, 21:50
Creative and efficient design! I'm with Skids: Tell us a little more about individual weights and what each piece is made from, etc.
socalhiker
03-13-2007, 22:03
the windscreen looks like a cooking pot w/ the bottom knocked out. Please let us know the brand and model, how you made it including the method of putting the holes in the windscreen. I like it and would like to possibly duplicate the windscreen. Thanks for sharing.
It's the top that's knoked out, and after eating the fishballs, just press the airholes with the very strong titanium stakes. There remain a "bottom" in the windscreen to get a little hold on things, specially in the dark :-) If anything fails, just eat another can and retry :-)
Happy Trails,
Max
Sorry, this one also posted in other thread. I'm new here, takes a little time to navigate:
Everything means all you see in the picture, two lightweight alu-cans from the supermarked, previeusly containing burned almonds and the lager one fishballs :-) The smallest little "burner" is from those candlelights and the stakes made of titanium, I bring anyway. The "Gripper" is from the mini Trangria wich I just got tired of didn't provide any shelter for the wind :-) It's not the most "proff" burner, but it's avaiable everywhere. The pot cools so quickly the you can drink from it allmost right away. Otherwise, made a drinking cup from the lowest 3 inches of a juice carton with inside insulation alufolio and fold it to rest inside the pot when not in use :-) Just add a lid after your own thoughts :-) I'm carrying this little kitchen all the way from Sweden to Spain this comming spring till Christmas, together with my WM Caribou bag, Sixmoon Gatewoodcape and my somewhat homemade backpack.
http://www.era-ewv-ferp.com/index.php?page_id=29
Since I live in Scandinavia where weather can be quite unpredictable and harch, even in the middle of summer, I got my Akto for the more demanding trips. But for fun in the lowland, I don't mind a thing :-)
I have as well a more sustainable modified original Trangia, that even take gaz, and made from the same way of principle, cut it down and add your own features.
Sincerely,
Max