><< I should have thought about this earlier. You can make your own alcohol > stove similar in design to the Trangia using tin cans. You could probably > even make one by Monday if you had the materials and the few simple required > tools. >> >And you've just reminded me of a Girl Scout camping project. You >get an empty can (I believe we used tuna fish size). cut strips of >CORRUGATED cardboard, wrap them tightly in circles inside the can and then >pour melted candle wax (or was it paraffin??). It then hardens. Would this >be safe on a plane? I did this too (as a boy scout, though). The thing blackened every pot in sight... One of the sootiest stoves I'd ever tried. The stove itself was a #10 can with church key openings all around the top for ventilation. I just got a copy of a book called "Roughing it Easy" which includes plans for all kinds of tincan stoves, etc. Even a section on Manifold Cooking (on your auto engine)! Nothing about making alcohol stoves out of tin cans, though. JP > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 07 2000 - 11:02:32 PST
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