Subdeacon Joe Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66umlzucUQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 Yep...kinda cool, but totally useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Awrighty then... try THIS one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 Now that one IS useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 It's a Boy Scout thing we teach at summer camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Sterno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Haven't seen one melt yet. Evaporating fuel cools the "stove," and the flame - and heat - is above the metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Dan Troop 70448 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 You can boil water in a paper cup. MT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Sterno Thought that was your adult beverage of choice, Charlie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 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. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Thought that was your adult beverage of choice, Charlie. Gave it up for shaving lotion through a loaf of bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Maybe a can o' Foster's??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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