[at-l] tin can stove

[bcalkins@disaster-relief.net (Bruce Calkins)]

My son and I made our own alcohol stoves ( 8 so far ) we have had good luck
using 1/2 inch "hardware cloth". ( Some of them have had X's cut out to
make it 1 inch H'cloth.) It is usually easy to find at hardware and/or
building supply stores. We have been using diagonal cutters to cut them to
size. The rough edges hold to the table and pot well but tear up anything
nearby. We plan to use MSR type windscreens. We have yet to take any out in
to the woods yet, but, our in house tests are very encouraging,
Mac-n-cheese, Lipton noodles & Just water for hot chocolate and/or freeze
dried. Definitely THE stove for solo light weight trekking.
Black Wolfe


At 05:02 PM 4/19/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Granted, I haven't yet used it in the field, but I plan to try rocks my
>first time out. If that doesn't work well then I'll probably buy some
>wire fencing; I'm not sure what it's called, but it's not chicken wire,
>but a bit stronger and usually has rectangular holes. I figured I'd put a
>small little chicken wire basket on top of that to help hold the pot
>securely in place.
>
>Cleek
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 Snodrog5@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Tincanman blessed me with one of his contraptions, too. What do you use to 
>> hold your pot above the flames? I tried the tent stakes, but I'm not clever 
>> enough to make that work. Mrs TJ tinsnipped dryer vent leftovers into a 
>sorta 
>> windscreenpotholderupper. Worked OK, but is rather unstable. I'd like to 
>hear 
>> what others are doing! 
>> thanks
>> TJ
>> 
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