Thanks for the tips fellows, tomorrow I will try the stove again with a lighter/thinner pot and in a warmer area.

I am having a difficult time finding thick-walled aluminum beer cans in my part of Ontario, I will need to take a trip into Quebec to see what they stock over there.

The girl at the local Beer Store (they are government run here) is on the look-out for "aluminum bottles" for me, but the deal is that I have to build her a stove if she finds me some.

Mike