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[Subdeacon Joe]

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66umlzucUQ

[Utah Bob #35998]

:huh:

[Subdeacon Joe]

Yep...kinda cool, but totally useless.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Awrighty then... try THIS one.

 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Now that one IS useful.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

It's a Boy Scout thing we teach at summer camp.

[Subdeacon Joe]

It's a Boy Scout thing we teach at summer camp.

 

 

I learned something similar with a can - like a small paint thinner can, sand, and your fuel (usually gasoline). Fill the can with sand, saturate the sand with the fuel. Light it at the top of the spout. The sand wicks the fuel up.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

Sterno

[DocWard]

 

 

I learned something similar with a can - like a small paint thinner can, sand, and your fuel (usually gasoline). Fill the can with sand, saturate the sand with the fuel. Light it at the top of the spout. The sand wicks the fuel up.

 

I learned something along those lines using a roll of toilet paper, without the cardboard core.

[Sedalia Dave]

 

 

I learned something similar with a can - like a small paint thinner can, sand, and your fuel (usually gasoline). Fill the can with sand, saturate the sand with the fuel. Light it at the top of the spout. The sand wicks the fuel up.

Built a heater for a bar in Spain using a similar concept. Fuel barrel outside feeds copper line coiled in bottom of another barrel Drill several VERY small holes in line and bury in the sand. Added another barrel on top to act as a heat exchanger. Used a gate valve to set the flow rate and a ball valve as the on/off. Worked great using waste JP-5 as fuel.

[Sedalia Dave]

Don't you have to worry about melting the aluminium can? I can see using a steel can for any of the above but using aluminium with such a low melting point would worry me.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Haven't seen one melt yet.

 

Evaporating fuel cools the "stove," and the flame - and heat - is above the metal.

[Marshal Dan Troop 70448]

You can boil water in a paper cup. MT

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

This guy was using charcoal. Would guess that the aluminum would burn through in a short time.

 

Another one of these thinking outside of the box without understanding why the box was there in the first place?

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Sterno

Thought that was your adult beverage of choice, Charlie.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Used to make some similar to 'Pan's our of steel cans and used rocks or sticks to support the pot or pan... usually a GI canteen cup... over the flame. Very compact and durable.

 

Also carried a LOT of war surplus canned heat, too. (Sorry, Charlie. )

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

Thought that was your adult beverage of choice, Charlie.

Gave it up for shaving lotion through a loaf of bread.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Maybe a can o' Foster's???

[DocWard]

You can boil water in a paper cup. MT

 

Yes you can! We did it in high school chemistry. My chemistry teacher wasn't sure what to say when I said I knew it could be done from reading Louis L'Amour westerns!

[Sedalia Dave]

The liquid burner made from a soda can I understand the physics of and I would not worry about it melting. It was the miniature charcoal grill that looks to me like it would melt.

[Alpo]

You notice, at 2:55, when he is carefully using tongs to transfer the hot coals from the beer-can tray to the beer-can grill, he is holding the beer-can tray in his bare hand.

 

Aluminum must not conduct heat as well as I always thought it did.

[Chili Ron]

Howdy, That's cute but I wonder how close to eleven bucks the hardware would get.

Eleven bucks buys the cheapest grille at Lowes, I believe.

Best

CR