ROCKET STOVE

[ImStricken06]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1qKDS2auc[/youtube]

figured id share with you guys.

NOTE: if you find yourself in a bad situation due to storm, loss of power, natural disaster, camping and or lost, this tiny stove can supply tons of heat and a stove top to cook on.

I went to the dollar store, and purchased a couple cans of crap i wouldnt normally buy, but i needed the cans lol. (I left the food out for the local neighborhood Fox, so its not a total waste.) I opened up all the lids, cleaned them, removed the labels, and mocked up a simple design. used a sharpie to trace, and used pop rivets to attach each can so its more stable. I took one lid and drilled some holes, cut around and made a stove-top support for any cans placed on top. i also used a lid to divide the lower entrance port: upper portion for wood(fuel) and the lower portion for the air to come in.

SUPPLIES:
2 IDENTICAL LARGE CANS (lower is the combustion chamber, and the one tacked on top is the chimney/cook top)

1 SMALLER DIAMETER CAN: (this can will installed horizontally into the lower can, and a lid from the larger can will be bent and placed into the smaller can to divide fuel & air.)

just use any can on top to boil the water - just make sure it movable and not permanently installed so you can carry it back and forth from a water source and this stove. you dont want to complexity cover the chimney, so you might have to off-set it like i did in this video.

[themadscientist]

Maybe cut some holes around the perimeter of the top chimney can so you can still use a cooker can that covers the whole top?

[VQpwrdSE-R]

This is pretty cool. Do you constantly have to feed a lot of sticks to boil water? Is it tedious as to not bump the can and knock everything over? Another functional low tech stove is a beer can stove. I have made one and are used by ultralight backpackers. It can boil 4 cups of water in 10mins.


The fuels that can be used are readily available such as denatured alcohol or rubbing alcohol. Downsides are that they have difficulty lighting when it's cold and I'm pretty sure one started one of the major wildfires in CO.

[ImStricken06]

This is pretty cool. Do you constantly have to feed a lot of sticks to boil water? Is it tedious as to not bump the can and knock everything over? Another functional low tech stove is a beer can stove. I have made one and are used by ultralight backpackers. It can boil 4 cups of water in 10mins.


The fuels that can be used are readily available such as denatured alcohol or rubbing alcohol. Downsides are that they have difficulty lighting when it's cold and I'm pretty sure one started one of the major wildfires in CO.

those cans needs constant refills. the rocket stove boils water in about 6-10mins. its super stable. regarding how often to put wood, it depends on the side of the sticks. a couple thick sticks and it will burn for about 30mins