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make you own meths burner
« on: September 18, 2009 »

                               

http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/news/article.asp?sp=&v=8&uan=6227

great tutorial I found on Outdoors magic.
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Re: make you own meths burner
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2009 »

I've been wanting to make one of these for ages (and I love Fosters). Might make a single walled one first tho.
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Re: make you own meths burner
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2009 »

I'm going to have a look at this over the weekend. Question is can you make a more basic version that doesn't have the inner wall?
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Re: make you own meths burner
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2009 »

yeah.
all you need is a small dish to set it in and a little meths to help the stove prime. Should work no bother.
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Re: make you own meths burner
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2009 »

What do you do to prime it?
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Re: make you own meths burner
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2009 »

for the stove to work ie flames to jet out off the little holes in the can it need to geed hot enought for the fuel to to turn to a gas. if u make a simple stove to help get it up to temp cut the bottom of a can a little larger than the stove you've made.

Place the stove in this fill the stove with meths and add a little extra to the dish. When you light it this will prime the stove or get it up a high enough temp to make the meths vaporise and jet outta the holes.

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Re: make you own meths burner
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2009 »

Tried it, was horribly unsuccessful. Had all sorts of probs cutting the tin to the right size and removing the center of the bottom. When I did get it together the flame just burned in the middle and didn't come out the jets :D Must have got the centre chimney bit wrong.
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Re: make you own meths burner
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2009 »

if there is no inner wall to get the stove to jet you have to put a pot over main hole. this forces the gas out the jets.

Get your stove and fill it with meths.
put stove in primmer dish (with a slpash of meths)
put pot/billycan on stove
light.

success :P
 
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Re: make you own meths burner
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2009 »

I did try and put the inner wall in, just must have made a monkey of it. I'll maybe have another go. Any tips on easiest ways to cut the tins and remove the bottom center part?
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Re: make you own meths burner
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2009 »

to remove the center part I score round it a about 6-7 times with the tip of a knife. I find if you set a marker on a book or chopping board and turn the can level againts the marker is a good way of making the cans the same size and then just cut with kitchen sissors.
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