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Nice looking stoves Dave. How dow they work??

Dave,

Ecellent! Very well done.

What is the size of the larger stove?

Ed's general design is really a winner. The large stove is 8" diam. by 10" deep, so ~ 10*3*16 = 480 cu. in. It was a wastebasket from Bed, Bath, Beyond $26? All up, it weighs 3.5 lb. but there's no way you need to use bolts as big as I used, they're 0.5 lb. I haven't burned this one yet. It has a 3" pipe and uses my TiGoat collar.

The small stove is exactly to Ed's specs, a storage can from Bed, Bath, Beyond. $12. The little SnowPeak kettle with 20 oz. water came to a rolling boil in about 15'.

The smaller collar was made from some galvanized sheet I had laying around. You can see how white and crusty it looks. It is definitely sacrificial and will need to be replaced. I just rolled a rectangular piece into a cylinder and gauged it by putting it into the stove hole, then clamped it and marked holes for a couple rivets and where the damper lever goes through. I bet if you had a punch, that would be cleaner than drilling the holes.

Then, you rivet the cylinder and use it as a template to trace the circular damper plate. Rather than explain all that, I'll get a picture up in a bit. My damper lever is like on a big house woodstove. It has that wavy part in the middle of the lever to lock it into the plate. TiGoat uses a straight lever with a washer welded onto it. I'd do that but I cannot weld.

well done David, and somehow I just get a chuckle thinking of you cruising the Bed, Bath and Beyond store for stove makings!


very well done on both counts the manufacture and the scrounging. (grin)

Hah, you got that right Randy! You shoulda seen the look the cashier lady gave me when I asked her where the kitchen magnets were so I could check the stainless canisters I was dragging around the store.

I know that look.
That look is probably the same one I received at the beauty supply store when I had to explain that the hydrogen peroxide paste I was looking for was for bleaching my elk skull.
They all stayed away from me in there after that.

Huskyrunnr.

Nice job. Over the summer I am going to work on some new stoves but in a month trout season starts so yea know how that goes.

Bitt, beat of a different drum, enit?

Woods, priorities! I'll be keeping an eye out for any creations you come up with, so please post 'em. I too gotta get the outrigger canoe in shape for bass season here. Almost done making a 600 lb. displacement float (ama) for it so we can sleep on the trampoline on the water.

I don't much care for working metal, but working fiberglass and epoxy resin has got to be the worst.

Silly questions:
-what kind of hinge on the door and how did you mount it? Can't tell from the pics.
-how do you feed the sticks in? open the door or through the holes?

I'm about done except for hinge and faulty rivet tool, I'm assuming you use steel rivets not aluminum?
thx

Tom,

It is a lightweight stainless hinge. They come in 6' sections and then are cut to length. I left a flange of sorts on the bottom of the door to achieve the correct clearance.

The rivet are stainless, but steel would work OK.

Sticks go in thru the door.

This is the stove I have been looking for, and you started this thread on my Birthday even. Very cool design. I want to put one of these in my SL 5.

Hardcore,

The Mini-Cylinder is a cool little stove, but I don't think it would heat an SL 5. Somthing along the lines of a Kifaru Small or Medium would be my choice for that tent.

Ed, how do you think the little cylinder stove would do in a Golite SL3 compared to a Parastove?

The mini-cylinder is close to a Para stove in heat output and I used a Para quite a bit when I had a Hex 3 which is basicly the same as the SL 3. I would say you would be OK to 0-5 degrees F.

Thanks Ed, I think I'll try an SL3. I scaled the dimensions out with chalk in my driveway and got a couple of sleeping bags and the stove out there (the neighboors already know I'm strange). Not a lot of extra room for two but it looks adequate. Certainly a palace for one.

I got to make myself one of these.
Thanks, Ed T