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    Default vienna sausage can stove?

    Seems to me that recently someone had posted very simple instructions for making a alchy stove from a potted meat or vienna sausage can.
    I want to carry one as backup/extra stove for loaning out or "fancy cooking" on two stoves. However I have searched & searched & cannot find it.

    Help!

    I mostly remember the directions, but want to get it right.

    Thanks.

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    Called the Atlanta or atlanta Randy stove, I think.

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    Get a Vienna sausage can and a hole punch. Make a ring of holes near the lip, then make a second ring slightly offset below the first ring. You now have a stove.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SGT Rock
    Get a Vienna sausage can and a hole punch. Make a ring of holes near the lip, then make a second ring slightly offset below the first ring. You now have a stove.
    It is a great little stove. I modified it some by punching the holes about a half inch up from the base. Less of the heat is wasted around the sides of the pot that way in my experience. I also made a little "cigarette holder" plate just the right size to hold the stove. (It is cut in a circle from the metal from the side of a soft drink can, and the edges are ruffled up with a pair of needle nose pliars.) This allows a couple of ccs of alcohol to be burned outside the can, heating it enough that the alcohol begins to vaporize.

    This has become my favorite alcohol stove.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SGT Rock View Post
    Get a Vienna sausage can and a hole punch. Make a ring of holes near the lip, then make a second ring slightly offset below the first ring. You now have a stove.
    Can you use a smaller cat food/tuna can or does that not have enough capacity? (Do you need the taller Vienna can, I guess is what I'm asking). Not that it's a big job to come up with one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dessertrat View Post
    Can you use a smaller cat food/tuna can or does that not have enough capacity? (Do you need the taller Vienna can, I guess is what I'm asking). Not that it's a big job to come up with one.
    The smaller cat food cans work fine.

    http://jwbasecamp.com/Articles/SuperCat/index.html
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    I recently made the Zen stove. I found that the combination of the side burner design, and my tall and narrow pot (Heineken Keg can) made it rather inefficent. Plus the darn thing burned so hot and fast that I melted my oven liner wind screen. http://zenstoves.net/

    The Zen stoves website also has instructions for the Atlanta stove and several other alcohol burning stoves. http://zenstoves.net/AtlantaStove.htm

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    so far the best "stove" I have found for the Heineken Keg Can pot is the tin from a tea light candle - filled up it holds maybe 0.5 ounce of alcohol which is good enough to boil 1.75 cups of water in the HKC - every other burner I tried was not as efficient with this pot - even the ION stove seems to have a problem with the fact that the bottom of the HKC is concave and not flat and thus does not pressurize the ION enough for the jets to work well

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    No doubt.
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    i made one,they are very easy,and work quite well neo

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    I personally use the Super Cat stove, which is made from a single 3 oz can of cat (or potted meat) food. You can find directions at http://jwbasecamp.com/Articles/SuperCat/index.html
    I like it because it is super simple. beyond light (under a quarter of an ounce), and efficiant. I personally dont like the really common pepsi can stove because they are so complicated, and if i sqished one, or lost one on the trail, I would never be able to build another one in a couple mins in the next town.

    Good luck with you stove,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hog On Ice
    so far the best "stove" I have found for the Heineken Keg Can pot is the tin from a tea light candle - filled up it holds maybe 0.5 ounce of alcohol which is good enough to boil 1.75 cups of water in the HKC - every other burner I tried was not as efficient with this pot - even the ION stove seems to have a problem with the fact that the bottom of the HKC is concave and not flat and thus does not pressurize the ION enough for the jets to work well
    I'm messing with one of those pots now. I was out at the video store and saw a can laying on the ground and thought "What the heck?". I remember you sending me one in Iraq (it is a casualty of war now) and I liked it. Do you ever eat or drink from the can, or is it only a heater for water for boil and bag cooking?

    I'm also working on a TiPod mod that will work better with the HKC, the Ion flame pattern is nice on it, and the can should be fairly stable on top of the stand when I make a fitted grove top.

    I'm now looking for a good lid solution. I've actually thought about getting a can cozy and a lid from a coffee mug that would fit so I could drink coffee from it in the mornings.

    Since you have used the HKC can for a while, I would love to hear your thoughts.
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    Oddly enough; I'm Atlanta Randy and yes the "Atlanta stove" is my baby.
    I know the sarge from his site, I talked to him about using trick birthday candles for fire starting. Feel free to email with any questions. The complete instructions and a template are on the "zen stove" website.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atlanta Randy View Post
    Oddly enough; I'm Atlanta Randy and yes the "Atlanta stove" is my baby.
    I know the sarge from his site, I talked to him about using trick birthday candles for fire starting. Feel free to email with any questions. The complete instructions and a template are on the "zen stove" website.

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    I used a vienna sausage can stove on my through-hike and made a cat food can stove for a hike this summer. The cat food can was more stable because it's shorter. Both had a double ring of holes made with a hole puncher and both worked great. The cat food can smelled a little fishy until I bleached it. You can't beat simplicity in a stove.

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    I made an alcohol stove, with the two rows of holes around the upper and lower perimeters, using a "Snow's Minced Clams" can, which is a little larger than a standard tuna can and also seems sturdier, with a bit heavier metal. I use a votive candle shell for the DN, sometimes use two. Maybe this product isn't available everywhere in WB-land, but it certainly works well.

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    I made one tonight, sort of a "quick and sloppy", the holes are rough and irregular, but it boiled room temp water in about four or five minutes in my MSR Ti pot, pretty much full of water. I am happy with that. I think I will take it on my next trip.

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    Arrow Goya modification...

    I have been experimenting with the Goya setup to use with a Heinie pot made from a Heineken beer can. The base of the can is a good fit into the top of the Goya can, as well as a 5 ounce cat food can. I got rid of the wire mesh screen and mounted 2 steel wires thru the inside of the Goya can to support the bottom of the Heinie can. The problem now is that the soda can stove insert keeps going out, probably due to poor air flow caused by the tight fit of Heinie can in the Goya can.

    I have to try out some different configurations of the air holes to see if this will solve the problem. I'll post again when I get this figured out, hopefully with some pictures. My pc is DOA, and my camera is not much better off.

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    Link it up atrail... it's really good!
    http://www.backpacking.net/makegear/...ove/index.html

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