Dirt-bag DIY alcohol stove.

[David Thomas]

Not that I suggest doing this for your daily-driver stove, but as a public-service reminder that, in a pinch, you can cobble together an alcohol stove from the trash.  Say, if you were on a caribou-infested Aleutian island, you’d somehow gotten denatured ethanol there, but Manfred’s gear went to King Salmon instead of Adak.

So we ate some tuna and soup, poked 8 holes in the tuna can, and used two tent stakes as spacers.  It worked quite well inside, but a lot less well in the wind.  A larger can or just some aluminum foil as a windscreen would have helped a lot, but as it was, it enabled us to do hot meals and drinks.  Once Manfred’s gear arrived, 4 days later, everything was much more efficient with his Caldera Cone.

[Bob Moulder]

That is a very impressive hack — great example of what can be done in a pinch!

[DAN-Y]

Something Ventured, Something Gained :-)

Turned out really nice :-)

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