DIY Alcohol Stoves -- Basic Design Consi derations

“A buddy and I have been tinkering with DIY (Do It Yourself) alcohol stoves on and off for the last couple of years.



I thought I'd put together a blog post on what's come out of all the tinkering and testing. What follows isn't a "follow the steps and you'll get stove 'X'" template but rather some basic design considerations for making decent DIY alcohol stoves.

At the end is a list of "standards" that you can benchmark your DIY stoves against.

So, without further ado, I give you: DIY Alcohol Stoves -- Basic Design Considerations

HJ
Adventures in Stoving”

“Good information. Thanks.”

“I think back often to the time when I took one of my less successful alcohol stove attempts, and put white gas in it.

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“I prefer thermite.....”

“Thermite! Now you're talking! A little tough to simmer with though. ;)

On a more serious note, if you're into DIY stoves, there are some good design considerations in there that I've worked out. They're stated concisely, as though they were no big deal, but it took a while to work all that out.

HJ
Adventures in Stoving”

“Bear is the king of homemade stoves.”

“Bear? Does he have a website? Or?

HJ
Adventures in Stoving”

“I don't think he has done much to the page in a while but this site has been the go to for many over the years. It still has excellent information for the DIY stover.
http://zenstoves.net/”

“Yeah that's a great site. I built the nimblewood nomad wood burning stove. I especially like the poetry section on the woodstove page.”

“Yeah, Zen Stoves is a pretty amazing. How he ever had time to compile that I'll never know.

My post is far more limited in scope: design tips for DIY'ers who want to build an alcohol stove out of aluminum cans.

HJ
Adventures in Stoving”

“And the Zen site is what?...”

“It's http://www.zenstoves.net as a I recall.

HJ
Adventures in Stoving”