[at-l] Alcohol stove making at the Ruck?

[russ.drake at navy.mil (Drake, Russ SKCM NAVSUP)]

I am wondering how to obtain one of your stoves or the plans on how to make them. 

Thanks!

Sparky!


 



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From: at-l-bounces@backcountry.net
[mailto:at-l-bounces@backcountry.net]On Behalf Of Tin Man
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:43
To: at-l@backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [at-l] Alcohol stove making at the Ruck?


Hi,
I brought my stove making stuff to the SoRuck and would like to be at the
PaRuck too but my schedule right now will not allow.  I am not the Tin Can
Stove Man.  He and I exchanged emails last fall because he thought I was
impersonating him and I likewise.  Turned out we both started making stoves
about the same time.  I am finding that a lot of people confuse us because
of similar trail names.  Although confusing me is not all that hard to do.
:)  I sell my stoves and donate to the Scouts and trail organizations and
the TCSM requests donations to live on.  He is a good man and makes a good
product and has helped a lot of hikers over the last couple of years.  We
had a good dialog and exchanged stoves for comparison.  Our construction
techniques and configurations are very different and my stoves are better
made and of a more consistantly high quality but...it's kinda hard to mess
up an alcohol stove.  Chief differences are the holes on my stoves are on
the side which allows the stove itself to be a pot stand, no side splits
during construction and the use of high temp epoxy to assemble and seal for
strength.  TSCM does not. TCSM liked the configuration of the side jets and
said he was going to start making his like mine.  He makes his one at a time
and each are individually cut with a swiss army knife.  Mine are made with
shop tools and special jigs for cutting and drilling the holes.  I make them
in batches of 25 to 100 at a time.

Miss Janet, on the other hand, has taken stove making to a new level.  She
has designed a hybrid of the Photon stove and the standard Pepsi can type
with the side holes.  She may have created the absolute lightest and
simplest beverage can type alcohol stove out there.  She challenged me to a
'boil off' competition at the SoRuck but it never happened.  ( No, Miss
Janet, I wern't a-skeerd!)  I used her stove when we go home from the ruck
and it is impressive...the performance is exactly like mine and it is able
to be used as a pot stand.  There are only 2 parts to her stove and it is
perfect in it's simplicity.  If she would use a thin line of JB Weld epoxy
to join the top and bottom it would be much stronger.  The top and bottom
are just dry-fitted together and can come loose as they did in my pocket.
The inner wall of the standard beverage can stove gives a great deal of
strength to the design like a D-cell on a wing spar and her stove doesn't
have that.  As long as her stove is not dented on the side then it should
hold up very well.  Hers weighs just .2 ounces.  A thing of beauty.  Like I
said, a bit of epoxy and it is the lightest and most perfect stove I have
ever seen.

Wish I could be at the PaRuck and if the schedule changes at the last minute
will just throw everything in the car and head North.  Have a great time
y'all.
Tin Man (not THE one-and-only  Tin Can Stove Man)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Slyatpct@aol.com>
To: <GoVolsKelly@aol.com>; <m_factor@hotmail.com>
Cc: <AT-L@backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Alcohol stove making at the Ruck?


> In a message dated 1/22/2004 11:54:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> GoVolsKelly@aol.com writes:
>
> > The Tin Man made my stove for me for the cost of postage.  I'm sure if
you
> > asked him, he'd make one for you too.
> >
>
> The Tin Man or the TinCanStoveMan, I think you're mixing them up, but that
> wouldn't surprise me!  : )
>
> Sly
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