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Thanks for sharing. That'll take some hair off your chest. The area of the hole was too small relative to the volume inside the can where fuel vapors and air formed an explosive mixture. A 1" diameter hole seems large enough for stoves I have tried, but that can you used is probably much bigger...

Thanks. The support is just three cubes (almost) joined along edges. There is good support at the perimeter of the kettle with no need for feet.

Why the interest in the swirl of the flames? Capillary hoop design, what's up with that, why so popular, needs a pot support and seems to be inefficient, burns hot??? With a wide pot and a good conical windscreen, a capillary hoop stove can boil 2 cups of 70F water with less than 15 ml of methanol ...

Here is the stove, stand, and pot I used over the weekend near Springer Mountain. http://www.appalachiantrailcafe.net/index.php/Attachment/3346-Top-Jet003-jpg/ http://www.appalachiantrailcafe.net/index.php/Attachment/3347-PotStand001-jpg/ http://www.appalachiantrailcafe.net/index.php/Attachment/3348...

This design was just another crazy idea I tried. It has capillary hoops, but does not produce a swirling flame. At the other end of the spectrum, a penny stove does not have a capillary hoop, but I built and tested one with jets that converge to form a swirling flame. There are numerous designs that...

I am designing and testing a side burning alcohol stove with eight diagonal slots centered 1" down from the top rim. The top rim of the stove supports the pot. The stove is 2" tall and 2 1/2" in diameter. The bottom of the slots is 3/4" from the bottom of the stove, and the top o...

I found it difficult to design an adjustable burner ranging between a very low flame and a very high flame. I settled for something relatively slow. I am starting over with a fast stove and looking for ways to slow it down. I am going outside now to test my Diagonal Slot Stove, version 2. I put the ...

I carried my Split Cat on parts of the Appalachian Trail in PA, NY, and CT, and part of the Pinhoti in Alabama. It boiled my water slower than I would have liked.

I am guessing the time to warm it up for simmering is between 30 and 50 seconds. That needs more testing. I should also test with a pot stand. With a pot stand, I can put the pot on immediately after lighting, or light the stove with the pot already in place. When the water gets close to a boil, I c...

The first test of the Tornado Cat version 4 produced a yellow flame and turned the coating inside the steel can to ash. I removed the ash with a rotating steel brush. I put an ounce of denatured alcohol in the Tornado Cat, lit it, waited 20 seconds, and set a Halulite Minimalist pot with 2 cups (480...