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[realityguy]

Someone had an octagon tent stove here for $75 on craigslist..however it weighs 66lbs... The new price is about $275...

[Ordin Aryguy]

When I was web-surfing around a couple years back, looking for homemade woodstove ideas, I stumbled on this. It's decidedly not stainless, not of the quality found around this forum, but it cool enough to bookmark.

http://www.webfun.org/woodstove.html


Ordin

[zelph]

Ordin, that was picture perfect example of the mailbox stove. The site also many other interesting topics. I bookmarked it

[realityguy]

How about the "fire from ice" link..has anybody ever got that to work?

[zelph]

How about the "fire from ice" link..has anybody ever got that to work?

Not with the sun but with a carbon arc light as the light source. Was not worth all the time spent setting up the stuff necessary to hold the char cloth close to the ice form. The focal length was short, 1" if I remeber right. I got sunburned from the carbon arc light while experimenting. The light source was used to expose silk screens if anyone is familiar with the process.