Backpacking stove recommendations?

[arctictom]

I just go to my cabin and turn on the electric stove , its a little heavy though


When I am so inclined the MSR stoves have served well.

[Windy Wilson]

"Come on! It's not rocket science!"

At Hughes Aircraft we never said that in any class. You never knew when there might actually BE a rocket scientist in the room, and it would be embarassing to have the rocket scientist tell you, "I am a rocket scientist, and this is hard for me."

[Termite]

Actually, I am an engineer. 'Course, I'm a civil, so I'm used to dealing with rain and other things that flow down hill.

Could you please come visit Louisiana for a few months, and teach the $hit-for-brains in the Louisiana DOTD how to build a road that will last more than 3-4 yrs before it needs serious repair.

I'm not joking.......

[Weetabix]

Could you please come visit Louisiana for a few months, and teach the $hit-for-brains in the Louisiana DOTD how to build a road that will last more than 3-4 yrs before it needs serious repair.

I'm not joking.......

I haven't designed highways for about 10 years, but you could give them a copy of this.

[1911Man]

Actually, I am an engineer. 'Course, I'm a civil, so I'm used to dealing with rain and other things that flow down hill.

Could you please come visit Louisiana for a few months, and teach the $hit-for-brains in the Louisiana DOTD how to build a road that will last more than 3-4 yrs before it needs serious repair.

I'm not joking.......

Seriously, he's not joking. We always have road construction going on in Texas because we're widening or improving the roads. Louisiana has pot holes the size of Volkswagons on the interstate. They're always working on the roads just to keep them going.

It has to do with doing it on the cheap and pocketing the cash difference, brother-in-law contracts, and the usual political corruption of La. Looks like they even got to Jindal.

:jacked:

[Dedicated_Dad]

I have the pepsi can stove (many, in fact - hazards of being a Scoutmaster, you know). But you can't simmer on it, and when it runs out of fuel, it takes a while to get started again.

Maybe I just need to make a Penny Ultralight Alcohol backpacking stove. Now I just need to find 12 oz Heineken cans

You CAN simmer on them. Actually that's one thing that bugged me about all the various sites out there talking about can stoves. Is not one of these people an engineer or a chemist?

You can either make two stoves, one with the "jets" calibrated for simmering (since they cost nothing and weigh nothing, this isn't a bad idea). OR, you can make a flame restricting collar or plate from another piece of can.

On the catfood stoves, coffee can stoves etc... you can even make it a rotating slip ring, and have the stove be fully throttleable.

With the pepsi stoves that wouldn't work as well, but it's still doable as a blocker. The material is too thin, and too heat sensitive to act as a throttle.

You can also easily make a disposable jet blocker with aluminum foil, or with duct sealing tape (metal foil tape, not plastic duct tape).

They have a "simmer ring" as part of the design. Agreed 100% on the slip=ring/throttle design - something I said the first time I saw them.

I've found the downdraft woodgas designs pretty interesting - combine them with an alcohol stove and...

Now... How hard would it be to add a fitting to the side of the alcohol stoves to make them capable of running on bottled gas as well? True do-it-yourself multi-fuel? You'd still need the regulator/valve, so I guess you'd really just be making a burner, but...

DD

[Termite]

Now... How hard would it be to add a fitting to the side of the alcohol stoves to make them capable of running on bottled gas as well? True do-it-yourself multi-fuel? You'd still need the regulator/valve, so I guess you'd really just be making a burner, but...
DD

Theoretically I suppose it could be done. But what's the point? And if the regulator stuck open on a propane bottle, you would have too much pressure feeding into the alcohol stove body that is not built for that, potentially creating a bomb.

Bottled gas is not a really efficient fuel method for situations where weight and bulk is a big issue, like backpacking. Propane cylinders have to be good for 200-250 psi, which means extra weight. And you have to pack them out when empty.
Pure butane, while not requiring propane-strength cylinders, won't vaporize below 31 F. Your stove no workee.

Multi-fuel stoves are designed around liquid fuels. The Coleman Exponent Multifuel stove burns either white gas(Coleman fuel), unleaded gasoline, or kerosene if you use the included extra generator tube. And it would probably burn charcoal starter, since charcoal starter is basically deoderised kerosene.