Camping Stove Design Part I: Vertical Wick to Extend Power Range

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 2:27 am  
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Vertical placement of wick material in camp stoves of height to diameter ratios greater than 1/4 can substantially increase power over that of stoves that lay wick or simple alcohol fuel in the bottom of the container. This video contains material that is sort of an inside joke between some camp stove designer enthusiast youtubers. We are all looking for that ultimate stove known as the ultralight backpacing camping stove “holy grail.” I do a little affectionately intended jesting with Joshua (aka terrafirma369), placing him in the role as “Grasshopper” — Caine played by David Carradine in the 1970’s TV series “Kung Fu” (Joshua is a martial arts enthusiast in real life), and myself as his Master Teacher, Kahn. You see, Joshua had crafted the very stove I had envisioned to make several months before I even conceived of it. (A picture of it is presented in this video. He did such a nice job of it, producing a well tuned stove with an efficient blue flame. Total artistic genius–there was no point for me to reproduce what he had already perfected. Now the pebble is in my hand (the vertical wick power concept), lol, and let’s see if he can snatch it out so as to liberate himself from the subjective role as my student! : )

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Homemade stove burning alcohol and white gas mixture

Monday, March 22nd, 2010 at 7:17 am  
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This is still the same coil pipe stove – midi what I uploaded before. The only difference is that burner has smaller jet than alcohol burner has. That is less than 1 mm. I think that smaller jet provides with longer burning time, but it has to be tested. It still burns pure alcohol, but about it hopefully in next video.

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wood gas stove

Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at 12:40 pm  
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portable passive wood gas burner, boils 1 liter H2O in 10 min. No noise, low smoke, only some twigs and a lighted match. Made from ‘garbage’ materials: a coffee can and tall vegetable can.

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The Gasifier Camp Stove

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 1:49 pm  
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These stoves burn organic material very efficiently and cleanly. Great for camping hunting or backpacking no need to carry fuel with you no smoke

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