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great tutorial I found on Outdoors magic.
I've been wanting to make one of these for ages (and I love Fosters). Might make a single walled one first tho.
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?
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.
What do you do to prime it?
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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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.
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
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?
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.