Simple Ultralight Alcohol Stove

Step 4 Step 4 - Putting it together

By now, you should have two evenly cut can bottoms, one of which has been designated the bottom of the stove and stretched out a bit. Take your cotton balls and place them in your stove bottom. Place the top of the stove over the bottom and they should go together with minimal effort. You may need a shim if it is too difficult to get them together. This can be fashioned from a bit of one of the other cans.

Once they are together, you can press down on the stove evenly until you hear a satisfying "click!". It's the best thing ever.

If it looks uneven, just press a bit on the higher side and it should go in.

Almost done. Now you can eat your banana. You've earned it. Doesn't it feel good to eat a banana?

Comments

[D4NG3RNL]

Yeah, I wanna know the same b4 making this... HOW much cotton should I stuff in?

To much and its to dense to soak up enough alcohol
Not enough and the alcohol just flows out...

Btw, would lighter fuel (that stuff that you pour into old fashioned Zippo lighters) also work with this?

(example: http://best4smoke.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/ronson_lighter_fuel.74180223.PNG)

[HAL 9000]

 Don't use lighter fuel. Its expensive, smelly, really expensive, and doesn't burn as well as ethanol. Use "Denatured Alcohol" from the hardware store, you can probably get a gallon for what you pay for a small bottle of naphthalene fuel.

[junits15]

you cant use anything oil based, and you dont really need the cotton, if you want to three balls should work, like in the pictures. oh and don't score the can while its full it will burst sending soda/beer everywhere. (I have experience) And one last tip, a can filled with plaster of paris works better as a strecher.

[evilkidjr]

how tight should you pack the cottonballs