The solo pikas use 12 oz aluminum cans from coors to sodas for the stove top and bottom, and a 5 oz juice or 8 oz sport drink can for the fuel bowl. The mad pika uses two 24 oz beer cans for the outside and a coors can for the fuel bowl. Pepsi can stove versus penny stove bushcraftuk community. Each cad and any associated text, image or data is in no way sponsored by or affiliated with any company, organization or realworld item, product, or good it may purport to portray. The very first double wall alcohol stove i ever built was the soda can stove. You may make one or two for personal use or for a friend. Inner walland even if most serious backpackers agree. Top burning alcohol stoves are generally dependable and easy to operate, just light and wait for your food or water to heat up. I just made a pepsi stove and im very excited to use it on an upcoming trip, but i am having trouble with a pot stand for it.
Weighs around an ounce and burns alcohol heet or other gasoline dryer, or even everclear should you want to multitask hic with your stove fuel. Alcohol stoves stove accessories backcountry skills trail foods. Soda can alcohol stove northern new england royal rangers. Rotate back and forth over about a 12 inch section to cut completely through the can at one point. How to make an alcohol stove from soda cans rei coop. Use10 mm for pot stabilizer inside skirt sheet metal. I have been adapting trangia burners and minibull stoves to work with simple windshieldpot supports and more recently with the british army hex. The stove may be made from just about any two 12 oz aluminum. Start by making a standard double wall alcohol stove like this one. A tutorial on how to build a coke can stove for hiking and camping okay, following up on a recent post about emergency preparedness, picture this. However, there are advantages to the suggested cans. The stove has been started and operated indoors with no exhaust fans and no odor of burning wood. Homemade pepsi can alcohol camping stoves written by monkeybrad on october 21st, 2008. Aug 04, 2010 home made alcohol stove from pepsi can with build in tripod.
Discover the wonders of the soda can stove, the lightest, cheapest, most reliable stove youll ever own. The simple design is made entirely from cans typically soft drink or beer cans and burns alcohol, typically denatured. A better soda can stove back in the early days of new france, a coureur des bois would spend a little fortune for his ultra light birch bark canoe. The weight advantage of the beveragecan stove is diminished by the greater fuel consumption. Who is the best person to get a pepsi can stove from and how much do they cost. If all you want to do is boil water, consider making the cat food can stove instead of the soda can stove. They also produce a circular array of individual flames similar to. The modern backpacker will also find many opportunities to trade a large amount of money for light gears.
American english are alcohol fueled, ultralightweight portable stoves. For that, i use what is known as a pepsi can alcohol stove. Its even easier to make than the soda can stove plus its lighter and acts as a builtin pot support. Dec 15, 2016 how to make pepsi can alcohol stove angeltest. Turn the can over and score the bottom portion of the can about 1 inch from the bottom. Those burn a lot longer with the same alcohol than the pepsi can stoves. Designed and perfected by pacific crest trail hikers. But if you need to do more than boil water, youre in the right place. The woodgas stove consists of an inverted downdraft gasifier shown in fig. Website have detailed instructions for many of the dominant designs. Soda can stove instructions step 1 find the cans good not. Also want to know how easyhard it is to find denatured alcohol to use in the stove.
The stove works and flame is coming out the small burner holes i made, but the flame is orange, not blue. Anway, all i know is that it took me about 15 minutes to assemble a coke can stove. The simple design is made entirely from aluminium cans, lending itself to countless variations. Usually the top of the can will tell you what the bottom of the can will look like. New rocket stove designs for central and southern africa. Make an alcohol stove out of a pepsi can or a smaller can, then flip it upside down and you have an esbit stove. The stove uses denatured alcohol solvent, sometimes called shellac thinner which is available at any hardware store. I think the alcohol stove still has a lot of potential. The products of clean combustion are co2, water vapour and heat.
Space era materials now abound in consumer products. A beveragecan stove is a homemade, ultralight portable stove. I built a pepsi can stove with directions from link. Acquire two cans of coke and drink them quickly and grab a can of tuna consume tuna quickly. This web site is designed to supplement some of the other well done aluminum pepsi can type alcohol stove construction web sites and possibly give you some ideas on building what works best for you. If you cant obtain the specific cans listed above dont worry.
If you substitute a 12 oz can pepsico or other for the 14. There appear to be no fuel leaks and everything seems to be made properly. If you find it difficult to make this line straight, you can put an elastic band around the can, untwist it to make it even. You wont use the top of the can, but these cantop sketches might help you find a can with a good bottom shape. Home made alcohol stove from pepsican with build in tripod. A tutorial on how to build a coke can stove for hiking.
How to build a soda can stove if all you want to do is boil water, consider making the cat food can stove instead of the soda can stove. Instead of making the burner holes like is shown, use a knife to cut 8 slits about 14 long in the same place the holes should go. Anyway, all i know is that it took me about 15 minutes to assemble a coke can stove. The design is popular in ultralight backpacking due to its low. The stove is fabricated with the bottom of a guinness beer can and the bottom of a pepsi can and the end result is incredibly light. Just a tip, but for removing the center bit of the stove, i found it easier to take a knife, score around the circle a couple times, and then just take a hammer and lightly tap out the center.
Into the stove you pour the denatured alcohol, light it and heat up your food or boil water for tea. Initially i did not have great success with this stove compared to other models, but with practice and experience comes better methods of construction. The cat can stove works so well because the pot seals the top of the stove, forcing the flames out the holes and thus a wider shorter pot is needed. Every era and type of skill is welcome, from flint knapping stone tools to the latest innovative processes that might. Soda can stove instructions step 1 find the cans the lowest ridge on the bottom of the can should have a sharp crease, not a rounded edge. The user assumes all risk for making and using this stove. To cut the base, draw a straight, dashed line around one of the two beverage cans, approximately 1. Note just about any printable file can be converted to a pdf file with a printer subsystem pdf creation. Fill the inner tin with fuel wood pellets, dry twigs, etc. Ive even been checking out all the fences i drive by to see if i could cut off a. The simple design is made entirely from aluminium cans, lending itself to countless variations total weight, including a windscreenstand, can be less than one ounce 28 g.
A tutorial on how to build a coke can stove for hiking and. A beveragecan stove, or popcan stove, is a do it yourself, ultralight, alcohol burning portable. Build a homemade alcohol stove start backpacking travel. You know i am always looking for the latest and greatest thing, but this time i decided to go back and construct an oldschool homemade stove. The computeraided design cad files and all associated content posted to this website are created, uploaded, managed and owned by third party users. The smallest size the one that you have to use a can opener on base diameter 2 58 inches 67mm. Pepsibrand aluminum cans are often used because they have a bottom shape that lends itself to securing the stoves inner wall, and. It is the middle of winter, and the batterypowered radio reports that a major substation has suffered an outage due to icedover power cables.
For more expensive brands of toilet paper, you may have to remove several sheets in order for the roll to fit in the can. For alcohol stoves that make a flame in the center of the stove, a narrower pot works well. They also produce a circular array of individual flames similar to a gas range. Institutional rocket stove with chimney cirs assembly guide. Since it takes up very little space, you could include this and some denatured alcohol in your bug out bag so you can cook food or at least heat up canned food in an emergency. Homemade pepsi can alcohol camping stoves inside the. You can make different kinds of stoves from materials found around the home. Hk mk gold beetle korean restaurant cold soft drink cook n pepsi april 2017 ix1. How to build a homemade alcohol stove start backpacking travel.
Serious backpackers agree that the world and have templates. Rotate the can using the book block as a guide so that the blade scores the can. Actually, i should give the credit to ppporch for suggesting that we build. Place a fire starter like wax, a few teaspoons of rubbing alcohol, etc. It is handy to have a glove to use a hot mitt to lift hot pots form the stove, to extinguish the stove quickly smother the fire and little damage should result to the glove, and also act as a cushion to keep the stove from rattling in the pot stand when packed.
This webspace is intended to provide a place for lifeboat members to share information about necessary technical skills and how to preserve them for humanitys continued benefit. Welcome to the skills and knowledge repository of the lifeboat foundation. Remove the cardboard center of the roll of toilet paper. I use 20 oz soda bottles for holding the 12 oz cans, and a 32 oz soda bottle to hold the 24 oz beer cans. It is without a doubt the easiest stove there is to make. Simplified stove theory wood doesnt burn wood gets hot and releases volatile gases that then combust for this to happen we nee to have sufficient temperature if wood is heated to 650 degrees celsius and sufficient oxygen is mixed with the volatile gases the result is complete combustion. Alcohol stoves have long been a favorite of ultralight backpackers.
However, if you want total coverage of the paint on the sides of the stove, then measure the width of the flat side of your stove should be about 2022 mm and cut the tape exactly to that width. Fold the roll in half and insert the roll into a 1 quart paint can. The catcan stove works so well because the pot seals the top of the stove, forcing the flames out the holes and thus a wider shorter pot is needed. The website i got the stove directions from recommended using welded wire fence. If you use a murphys can see notes in step 5 for special instructions.
A soda can stove, made from three soda pop cans and rubbing alcohol, can be. As an option, the gasifier can make charcoal with a 2025% yield. A beverage can stove, or pop can stove, is a do it yourself, ultralight, alcohol burning portable stove. The future may belong to an atomic fusion stove that weighs two ounces and can run for a hundred years on one gram of fuel, but in the meantime, the topmounted isobutanepropane canister stove probably comes closest to meeting the needs of most of todays threeseason backpackers, particularly those who trek in europe and north america. Pepsi one cans are silver and blend in well with the foil tape. Total weight, including a windscreenstand, can be less than one ounce 28 g. Its even easier to make than the soda can stoveplus its lighter and acts as a builtin pot support. You can also make an esbit stove out of wire mesh, the same wire often used as the stands forthe pepsi can stoves. The design is popular in ultralight backpacking due to its low cost and lighter weight than.
A beveragecan stove, or popcan stove, is a do it yourself, ultralight, alcoholburning portable stove. The stove may be made from just about any two 12 oz aluminum cans. The requested article link was pepsi can stove, i didnt think about a better name but maybe should have. If you can t obtain the specific cans listed above dont worry. These diybuilt devices for outdoor cooking are typically constructed from two empty, modified aluminium or tin beverage cans hence the name. These jigs will help any hiker to cut perfect stove parts from any type of beverage can to make most any stove. Beverage can stoves often called soda can stoves in u. Making an alcohol stove from soda cans iwillprepare.