Hello! I am new here, my name is Russell. How I prepare myself for hiking can be summed up as inventive scavenger. I try not to spend much money, instead I use what's abundant, and for some reason I have to much wax.
While hiking I find myself wanting more and more to start tea or hot water for oats as I wake up, and be ready before I get to packing up my shelter. I find tea lights work great for a couple runs of warmish water and are free because i refill with bees wax and replace the wicks, but they just dont have the speed I am looking for.
I am obsessed with rocket stoves but after watching my friend operate his portable Gasification stove and reading on here about someone's encouragement to create one with a candle, I got an wild idea. So two hours later I jury rigged up the only beer can I could find into a two chambered, self feeding, gasification, candle stove.
I took it for a run, took 11 minutes to get a decent boil. I originally had a rubberband lifting up the candle as it melted, but after 6 minutes it burnt up and dropped the wax, I was thinking of finding a small spring to replace it, the gassification didnt work until the candle dropped, it was still sputtery, so larger holes are needed (i used a thumb tack for vents). That aside, the idea of it is the outer shell and the candle tube are compression at the top while I insert a metal wire through both of them, one to hold it secure and two to prevent the candle from continuing to rise from the rubber band's tension. the bottom cup is to catch drippings and compress the candle tube secure from the bottom, also can be used as snuffer.
Let me know if this is to far fetched, I appreciate all feedback.
