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You could do both the door and ash dump the same way just in reverse. The ash door with the flange on the inside. Stove door with flange to the outside so they stack nice. Put a small hole in the ash door so you could poke a stick in there and open it as needed. Put a bent handle on the door as you would use that one all the time.

You might be able to cut a slot in the both flanges, flush to the face of the door end, and then have use a flat piece of sheet metal as a sliding damper/door. Lifting it up a little would adjust the draft, through the lower hole, and it would be fully removed to feed the stove. It looks like a Dremmel cutting wheel would work for the slot.
If you remove the entire flange across the front, a real door should be doable, but the stove halves would loose some structural integrity, which might be an issue if you planned on using them to chock your truck tires on a hill. For that application I suggest a frying pan, as the handle aids deployment.

We (seekoutside) have a prototype titanium stove where we used an ash pan concept with a little grate inside the stove. The stove was large in the 800 cubic inch range and I think was barely over a pound.

Here is a picture


The pan /grate idea worked OK, but needs further refinement.

FWIW we are doing a slide door on our stoves and it works well.

I never knew so many other people enjoyed toying with homemade tent woodstoves as me until recently. Guys at work always pick on me for picking around the scrap metal bin at the mill I work at every week looking for new ideas or thrown away treasures to be turned into a tent stove. Keep the ideas coming guys.

Is'nt it hard to move those sliding doors once you've had a fire and the metal is distorted ?
Tim

The titanium stays in shape pretty well.

Woodswalker:

Would you please give us some dimensions of and what type can did you us to make the stack robber. I can't scale the drawing you supplied.

Thanks, BB

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Kevin_T

Nice start though don't think an ash try will work for me. If I was making a takedown box stove and looking for ways to have it stand out from the pack I would forgot the ash tray and do up an internal baffle plate. Now that would be something special. I tested a baffle plate in my small Kifaru with some degree of success.

WoodsWalker

I tried the internal baffle, some success and some smokey tents(failures). I ended up ditching it for now and going the damper route.

WoodsWalker

I think in the small stove boxes a stack robber may work better and be more reliable.

Interesting project - neat work!

Hey Woods, I've been admiring your stove. If it was me, I'd try alum. tubing w/ a nut inside the end to snug down on that bolt that holds the two halves of the stove together. Might not wobble so much as threaded rod? I dunno, have to try it. Nice job, man!

ETA: looking some more, bolt it all up and then bend up those corners a bit to give the legs a bit of splay? Might work fine with just rod then.

Husky.

In the end I may just drill holes though the top and bottom and use 10/24 threaded rod aka Kifaru style legs. I will mess around with the stove this weekend and maybe take a few days off to swing in the hammock on the AT during the week or kill more trout.

Kevin_T

The big pro of an internal baffle plate beyond superheating the top of the stove for faster boil times is the anti spark goodness. The robber is very nice in that someone can decide to forgo the option if looking for a more UL setup. If made right it does a bunch of good things.

Hi!

Good pics and ideas. Have you familiarized your self with Norwegian stoves? E.g. manufacture Helsport does those. I can send you some pics to think about spark arrestor and door/air intake to avoid sparks etc to floor. Of course Helsport models are much heavier, but some things well made.