Pepsi can stove

so it can fit in any pocket boil water in less than two minutes keep you warm and it makes a great light backpacking stove.the pot fuel and windscreen can't fit in the pockets :( I did NOT come up with this i saw one at scouts and dicided to make an instructable!You can use Denatured alcohol HEET or nail polish remover for fuel.You can put this in your igloo, quinzee, lean-to for heat when not cooking.This stove uses 50% less fuel than others

Step 1 Cutting the can and inner wall

the taller the can sides the longer the stove will stay burning. Cut two cans at the same hight.Sand the edges so you dont get cut if you want You can sand the paint of the side if you want a silver finish.Cut a strip of can from the middle of the can for a inner wall.cut a ridge out at each end on opposite sides then slid the ridges together to form the inner wall.

Comments

[sreepradaramakrishna]

HOW CAN I USE IT? TO WHAT XTENT FLAME COMES? ANY MORE PROJECTS/DETAILS?
THANKYOU....

[sreepradaramakrishna]

HI,
NICE PROJECT FOR SCIENCE FAIR.
BUT HOW TO USE IT?

[gurr]

I have problems with keeping this kind burning, but with an open center, it works fine. More like Trangia.
You may not use kero.

[jbend]

can you use kerosene

[zzzazzz3]

 Has anyone tried using a chilli can as a stove?

[junits15]

the holes are to big, use a pushpin to make them, and use a nickle instaid of a quarter, it seals better.

dont use the inner wall it isnt doing anything for you execpt making it harder to prime.


leave the stove fiberglass free, the insulation dosnt do anything for your gain.

hope this helps
junits 15

[TheShaggyDA]

Adding insulation can help - if you knock the stove over whilst it's lit, the alcohol doesn't go everywhere straight away.

[junits15]

not really,  a good stove can use 1-2 oz of fuel for boiling water, if that falls it isnt going to spill everywhere, you might get a few drips but thats all.

[TheShaggyDA]

Given the size of his jets though, insulation would be the difference between "a few drips" and "all of it" :-)

[Evan606]

Is it safe to use insulation?

[Willmeister]

dont use heet you have a high chance of going blind from the methanol in it or at least 50% blind use rubbing alcohol

[junits15]

Only if you drink it, and is says right on the back, "toxic do not ingest".

[hulma]

you could also buy gelled fuel for fondue burners

[fredricksburgthethird]

i built a stove similar to this (no inner wall or insulation) and took it backpacking it worked very well. Does anybody have ideas to control the flame height?

[stevemonkey22]

these work great and are easy to make i make 2 in about 4 or 5 mins.but dont use nail polish remover it give off rreeeeeaalllyyy bad fumes

[jspike2]

how do you light the stove because when i try to light it it has one spark then it dies

[junits15]

you will have to preheat the stove to set the fuel evaporating, those burning evaporating fumes cause more fuel to evaporate and so on.

[dabombmaker]

sorry but you have to be smarter than the stove

[ClemensY290]

so does nailpolish remover work?

[dabombmaker]

darnerous to you and enviorment it gives off tons of co2 and co

[666man8]

can you use hand sanatizer as fuel?

[dabombmaker]

yah but not very effective

[glassarmor10]

how do you light it? does it need a fuse? do it use gas or foot polish remover to light

[jtb103]

u light it by vaporizing your fuel denatured alcohol works best with heat the lighting the vapors

[wade12]

what kind of alcohol rubing alcohol or the alcohol you drink.

[Briguy9]

Neither, although rubbing alcohol would probably work. The alcohol you use is cooking alcohol (not alcohol you put in food and cook with, alcohol that you use to heat up and cook the food.) which is basically Denatured alcohol (ex. HEET). Information Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol

[dabombmaker]

or isopropyl

[fbkkooll]

I can seem to get the stove to burn. After the primer burns of it goes out. What's the problem?

[junits15]

what fuel are you using? if you are using rubbing alcohol you must be using at least 70% try using some more fule spilled around the stove to prime it.

[jtb103]

the fuel may not be vaporizied

[fbkkooll]

How do I get it to vaporizes? I've even tried placing a piece of toilet paper over the fill hope and adding the fuel to increase prime time but that didn't work.

[dabombmaker]

you might need to warm it up use the lighter and heat one side up once it gets going you shouldnt need to do it again unless it goes out and cools

[pastprimitive]

Check out my website www.keyholestoves.com. In my design I have a built-in primer pan. It makes getting your stove to work right oh so much easier.

[jtb103]

the fuel inside the can hes to heat up enough for it to vaporize you can trie a lighter under it the quickly move it to the top of the can

[dragonsniper]

.what the crap is a quinzee?

[jtb103]

an igloo not made of blocks basicaly just a hole in a snowpile

[dragonsniper]

thanks!

[Jim_teacher]

What does the quarter do? Keep the center from burinng? Step two is confusing to me: why are there suddenly several pieces and what are they? Why is there suddenly one section inside of the other? Is that section as tall as the height of the other two pieces? Are there any suggested measurements for this? Also I don't understand the crimping of the can with plyers in the following step. Is this so that the pieces fit together better? Thanks for doing this - I'm trying to make one from either a Foster's can or Heineken - the so called "oil-kegs".... They should hold more fuel.

[jtb103]

the quarter acts as a valve and the center piece is for strength

[pineapplenewton]

it isn't for strength is to control the alcohol fumes