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How to: UltraLight SIDEJET style homemade alcohol stove from cans
Milo Plurnbottom 2008-06-19 20:34:13 UTC

• (2) Soda cans
• Utility knife / Razor blade knife
• Thumbtack
• Wire hanger (sand off coating), Gutter guard (doesn’t rust – see wickstyle stove for info ), or similar for pot stand
• Fiberglass (small wad – but not absolutely neccessary…)
• Rubbing alcohol (or Heet is sometimes recommended in this how to video)
• Sand paper (fine)(to remove printing on cans if desired)

After posting the "wick style home made camping stove how-to from ":http://cotradeco.com/posts/793-how-to-ultralight-wick-style-backpack-camping-stove-from-cans I found this how to for the more common sidejet style stove from cool347957989 at YouTube .

As I mentioned in the Wick style how to, HappyCamperBus built an entire stove for their VW bus using this stove design and I many of my camper friends, even zoe’s sister Tammy also makes this type of stove for her camping/hiking/backpacking adventures.

This particular how to is quick and easy to follow. But I wanted to point out that it recommends using fiberglass inside the “fuel tank”, though of the folks I have met you use this style of camping stove, I have never seen anyone do this. That is not to say that doing so wouldn’t improve performance or fuel efficiency, but I have no information or evidence to confirm this.

Have fun on and off the trails of life.

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