Stove for less than a buck

Used with Trangia military burner


Can be used with Streno



Folds flat


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Holds pots and USGI canteen cup

Made from a single roofing repair square of sheet metal, $.0.78 for the home depot.




Make you own, use with windscreen.

Fun!

 

now that is a sweet setup, thanks

 

Thanks

Thanks. The windscreen was picked up in the mid-70s The 'hard' part is to measure distance from burner top to bottom of pot//cup. Mine is 1.75 inches and seems to work well.


With windscreen in place aroind by Soloist pot set. Designed for use with military surplus Trangia burner, works fine with Sterno canned fuel.

 

very nice

 

Only thing I'd mod would be to round off those sharp corners on the stove panels! Good basic design!

 

THanks

Yup. The photo is of the prototype to fine tune the height above the burner...

Thanks for the kind words.

 

its made of light sheet so it wont be a lot to pack around either
i like that, all it needs now is a sock or bag to tote it in

 

It sits in the folds of the wind screen, which has its own bag. Very compact setup.

Thank you for the kind words.

 

I find sterno problematic....;

 

Yup - Sterno gets no love

I built the stove (pot holder/windscreen, really) for use with a mulsurp Trangia burner - and since the burner and a large can of Sterno are the same size... Just another choice you can make.

The Trangia burner works great on my folding sterno stove. I bought a set of the stoves and burners for the kids as an in-home alternate for a short term power outage. Or car camping.

Thanks for looking at the post.

 

Figure this might work with a penny stove?

Penny Stove 2.0 - Standard Tecate Cans

 

So long as the burner sits about 1 3/4 inches under your pot, it should be fine. Too close and it will lose efficiency. I also recommend use of a wind screen.

 

A bunch of us from the board were on a survival camping weekend a while back, Seawolfe was there. One of the guys spent all afternoon making one of those penny stoves; it didn't work nearly as well as he had hoped.

 

Alcohol stoves are fiddely (if that is even a word) that's why I spent a few bucks and purchased a nice solid brass Trangia. I have seen the web pages on the stoves, and most indicated the need for a few passes to get everything just 'right'.

I like alcohol stoves for many reasons. Quiet, nearly odor free, safe and so on. In extreme cold, they are lacking in the high heat output found in pressurized white gas/kero stoves. Still, there is the 'fun factor' for DIY equipment.

 

The "fun factor" for me was emptying all those BUD aluminum bottles. I keep a couple of these stoves in the different packs along with alcohol justincase.

 

LOL
Fun indeed.