Alcohol Stoves

[Wise Old Owl]

Has anyone made a Coke or Bud Can stove simply for heating a Titanium mug that wont melt the handle? I am trying to make a cup of tea or java on the spot. Stove must fit inside the mug. Jets should be concentrated on the bottom right?

I am on my fourth design and slowed the heating down to increase transfer and I made an acceptable simmer - wont boil at 1 oz.

Straight to mug isn't working well as the pot sized bottom is a bit small.

I did find one thing of value the distance between the mug & the stove must be more than 1" for air.

[oops56]

I have made just what you need in few i get a picture for you

[Hooch]

If it were me, I'd direct any alcohol stove questions to out resident Stove Meisters SGT Rock, Skidsteer or Zelph. Personally, I had absolutely zero luck in making a decent alcohol stove. That's a big part of the reason I went to the Caldera Cone stoves.

[oops56]

Ok here a nice easy small stove for small pots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YROCDH3He8

[Wise Old Owl]

How many ounces of Heet to boil one cup of water?

[oops56]

How many ounces of Heet to boil one cup of water?

It all depends on your cup i say 10 mils.

[Wise Old Owl]

You have me whats a mils? I have been measuring with a ounce cup from a perscription bottle

[Wise Old Owl]

1 US fluid ounce = 29.5735296 mL
Fluid Ounces (US)=mL

1=29.57

2=59.14

3=88.71

[Wise Old Owl]

I haven't boiled a cup of water ever with less than ounce ... It has to be more?

[NICKTHEGREEK]

I haven't boiled a cup of water ever with less than ounce ... It has to be more?

Gram is weight, liter is volume

[oops56]

15 mils to a 1/2 oz. 30 mils 1 oz.

[Two Speed]

I haven't boiled a cup of water ever with less than ounce ... It has to be more?

Nope. Much depends on the set up.

Actually burning an ounce to boil a cup is pretty poor efficiency; may need to tweak your set up.

[Wise Old Owl]

Well I don't have anything to measure other than one of those caps for cough syrup and near full it weighs an ounce and I have played with premade stoves and made four. Only one homemade one was a ball a flame and got close to achieving the 210 degrees before the flame went out. Hense my dissatisfaction with the whole alky thing entirely. Vargo was a dissapointment as well.

[oops56]

I use them same cups on all my stoves will boil or close to it on 1/2 oz. 16 oz. water also the pot size makes a different to small o. d. takes more fuel the best is 4 in or bigger up to 6 in. od. plus boiling water is to hot for coffee any way. As for fb cooking no need for boil ether. also must find the sweet spot for you stove the holes to hi or to low there is a just right spot

[Two Speed]

Well I don't have anything to measure other than one of those caps for cough syrup and near full it weighs an ounce and I have played with premade stoves and made four.

A lot more scientific than I usually get. In point of fact the way I know I use less than 2 oz a day is I carry less than 8 oz for 4 days so on average . . .

Only one homemade one was a ball a flame and got close to achieving the 210 degrees before the flame went out.

Welcome to the World of Stovies! If you haven't built a flaming catastrophe or two you ain't a Stovie!*

Hense my dissatisfaction with the whole alky thing entirely.

There is a learning curve. Far better to fool with them at home, where fire extinguishers and additional food is available than to set the woods on fire and then have to run for your life on an empty belly.

Vargo was a dissapointment as well.

Don't have a favorable impression of the Vargo, either. Only contact was another hiker who bought one. Damn thing was finicky indoors with no wind. Wouldn't have wanted to depend on that sucker outside.

* Ya know, I may adopt that for my sig line!

[Skidsteer]

One ounce in a cough syrup cap should be a volume measurement, not a weight measurement. In fact, most of them have ML's stamped on one side and Tsp's on the other.

A cough syrup cap is fine to use as a measuring device.

[mister krabs]

Nice one Oops!~ How is that hairspray can connected to the base and top?

[Spogatz]

Make a normal can stove but only put holes half way around the stove that way you can keep the handle on the side without the flame. That should do it.

[Wise Old Owl]

Well I am moving away from the bud cans and trying a coke can

Two Speed- How did you make the horizontal cut outs on the PMS stove?

[oops56]

Nice one Oops!~ How is that hairspray can connected to the base and top?

just j b weld