Tent stove a la TiGoat

[Benjamin Moryson]

I planned this stove since a longer time and had all materials at home, but with Covid I lost my passion for ultralight hiking and dropped this project. In the end of last year after some personal issues I recognized, that have to take this time out to calm down and relax and coincidentally I found the materials in the cellar and decided to finish this stove. Everything is made with tools you normally have at home when you have a small workshop. Because titanium is really expensive I decided to build the stove with 1.4301 steel. I only used titanium plates for the lids to save some weight. In the end I ended up with 839g, but I forgot the exhaust flap which would add around 20g extra.

[Ryan Jordan]

Really nice work, Benjamin – it’s nice to see such attention to craftmanship in metalworking.

[Jerry Adams]

859 g = 30 ounces – pretty lightweight.  Maybe use aluminum instead of steel…

Nice work.  I like how everything packs together. Well thought out.

[Roger Caffin]

Forgive me, but I do not see how it goes together or how it works.
More pictures needed!

EDIT: well, some of the pictures were missing on the first display – I have no idea why!
It seems to be a fold-up wood stove, possibly for use inside a tent. Correct?

Cheers

[Benjamin Moryson]

@Ryan

Thanks. I‘m working in an iron foundry, so it was a but easier for me to do it, but the next one I will laser I think.

 

@Jerry

Aluminium is light, but not heat resistent and becomes quickly brittle. Titanium is the metal of choice, but really expensive.

 

@Roger

I do not why some pics are missed or turned in the wrong way and yes it is a foldable stove for insight the tent. Just have to sew some heat resistent fabric in my LocusGear tent to use it. I will make a complete video of the setup next week.

 

 

[Jerry Adams]

ahhh… the last two pictures make it clear

Interesting about aluminum.  I have noticed that when you put it in a fire it doesn’t do well – oxidizes and maybe melts

[Roger Caffin]

Aluminium melts at 660 C. Fires can reach that with a little help (air).

Titanium is more expensive, but you can use a thinner gauge. Standard outlets are expensive, with big markups, but you could try TitaniumJoe. He is a reseller of offcuts, but he has expanded a lot over the years.

Cheers

[Justin W]

There was an in depth discussion re: Ti some years back on this site, which centered around how common Ti alloys were also prone to brittleness issues after cyclic (especially high heat) burns.  Apparently pure Ti doesn’t suffer this whatsoever.  Some Ti alloys were better than others (don’t remember specifics on this–this discussion was a number of years ago).

Re: Aluminum, it could be used for the legs/stands, and it could be used for an upper part of the pipe/flu. Definitely wouldn’t want to use it for the main body of the stove, nor for the first couple feet or so of the pipe/flu.

You could use Al if you insulate it with something like ceramic fiber insulation covered with a basalt cloth and adhered with a silicate blend solution (mostly sodium, with moderate amount of potassium, and a small amount of lithium). But that would probably up the weight to steel like values (and a silicate bonder/adhesive would tend to make it too stiff and brittle of a composite to use–would have to have two parts fitted together or the like). The only benefit is that with insulation, you would get a cleaner and more efficient burn provided the air intake ratio’s were well tuned. If doing this, you would want to spray paint all of the stove and pipe/flu with high heat paint to maximize IR transfer.  Doesn’t matter if it is white or black paint.

 

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