I have made a few ?Pepsi-Can? alcohol stoves in my quest for the Holy Grail of stoves. However, nothing as yet beats my Trangia.
Can stoves are the tops in weight (the lightest) and cost (nothing, but time and the willingness to drink a Pepsi). And, they are a lot of fun to make and fiddle with. However, they are delicate (dropped a wrench on one accidentally, and well??), they do not give you a great bang-for-the-fuel compared to other alcohol stoves, and you must burn off all the fuel when you use them ? you can not store them with fuel. My Trangia is built like a tank (pun intended) and you can store fuel in it with the cap in place (it?s a tank ? get it? Ha. Ha. Ha.) <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />. I?m in the process of making a windscreen/stand for using my Trangia with a USGI Canteen cup, as the Natick stand is not tall enough to use with a Trangia. I?m going to make it so it can be used with larger pots, too. Of course, I will post images of my utter brilliance and stunning creativity when done. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Hope this helps,
?..CLIFF
Note to Tom: You were right ? now that I have a house with a workshop, I don?t know how I ever got along without one. Heaven ? lots of power tools and a place to use them!