Yeah, I just finished the Camping merit badge in Scouts and my merit badge counselor was showing us the different types of camping stoves, and one stove he had was a a tin can stove, or "hobo stove" as he called it. It was so cool that as soon as camp was ovr I made one myself, and I remember the guy saying to use perlite,(a type of pebble found in your local hardware store, costs a couple of bucks a bag) and but that in the can with denatured alcohol. Light it with a match and voila! you have a flame. It burns for about an hour before you need to put more alcohol in it. The can should last 7 or 8 times lit before you need to make a new one.

Willie,

Just a thought: the 5 minute J-B Weld is only rated to 300F iirc, whereas the regular J-B Weld is rated to 600F. I don't know if that is important, but it might be.

I'll let you know about the other stove design. First I have to drink some Guiness, then help finish up an Eagle project - no, wait, it's the other way around...

Tom

I haven't tried white gas yet, but I did demo my stove at the last troop meeting as part of a larger discussion on camping stoves. I was surprised when I poured the alchohol into my recycled plastic Stabil 8 oz. container, the fuel was a muddy brown color. Apparently the inside of the metal container must have rusted, coloring the fuel. It still worked but did seem harder to light. I never realized that there would be a problem with long term storage. I'll pick up some fresh fuel and transfer it into a plastic container I have preped for that purpose.

It's a large version of the Stabil bottle with a sidecar measuring chamber. I bought it from a New Orleans company that produces a cold-filter coffee concemtrate ( CoolBrew Coffee ). I found by accident that the Stabl container was not leak proof. The caps have a cardboard disc to seal the tops but they eventually get saturated and deteriorate. Luckily I carried the bottle in a ziploc bag! So I picked up a hunk of food grade gasket material at Ace and cut out replacement discs.

BTW, I'd be interested if anyone knows a source for the empty measuring containers.

BillVann:

The kind on this page?

http://www.brasslite.com/products.html

Bear

Bingo! Thanks.