Alcohol stove question

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#21

Lil’ Rebel, you don’t always need a pot stand with some homemade stove designs like the pepsi and v8. This of course banks on the diameter (stability) of your pot. I use an MSR 0.8L titan kettle and have been quite happy with the V8 stove which doubles as the pot stand. Just set the pot right on top! To elaborate further, if you have a wider pot, you can build a soda can version that performs in just the same fashion. I would not even bother adding the priming cup unless in really cold weather and letting the fuel burn in the center hole to prime is too inefficient. All you need to throw in with this 0.3 oz. stove is a small windscreen fashioned from folded over aluminum foil = 0.2 oz. So that’s 0.5 oz. for the stove and windscreen. Not to put down the trangias which I think are a good choice for some, but this homemade system is noticibly less bulky and heavy and I’ve found it to be a perfect performer on the LT.

Sweeper

#22

Learn to build a prototype alcohol stove.

Cut off the base of a soda can. Run some fiberglass insulation around the edges. Put 2 tablespoons of solvent alcohol in there. Light the burner with a cigarette lighter. Put the stand over the burner (that’s now lit). Put the covered pot with 2 cups of water on the stand. Put the windscreen made of oven-pan liner around the outside. When the water boils, throw in dehydrated foods. Bring to boil again. Fuel runs out.

How hard is that?

The whole point is learning to design one for your own needs. Here is a link to my first stove, which a couple other sites have gotten permission to copy.

http://hikevermont.com/linguini/stove4.htm

I later designed a revision that went from Maine to Georgia in 2001. The stove, stand, windscreen, and container weigh 1 ounce, or a little less. I used less than 4 oz. of solvent alcohol for every 75 or 100 miles, mainly cooking suppers.

BTW, with this method, there’s never a problem of scorching food or scrubbing burnt food off your pot.

Linguini