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The sand tip is worth every minute of this video.
Ya,the sand tip was the hack!!
I've also heard of people putting water in the pipe and then freezing it to accomplish the same.
Yep, that sand tip will come in handy
Table salt works wonders too.. or any stuff that desolves in water. Not an issue here, but try using sand with a 10-15 wrap coil n getting it out... :D
You can also seal one end of tube fill it with water seal the open end and freeze works great also.
A guitar string works great for getting the wick into the copper tube, very flexible and very sturdy.
I'd run a fishing line into the copper tube. Tie it to the wick so I could pull it through. Fishing line will quickly go through the tube. I really enjoyed your video. You are an excellent teacher!
A good idea if you wanted the wick to go all the way through the loop, but here there is no wick in the copper tubing loop, only up each copper tubing leg that feeds into the loop. See, you're not actually burning the wick; the two wicks absorb liquid and fill the loop with butane gas, not butane liquid. When he says "prime it" he means just that, filling that loop with gas. Because its an airtight system when the gas ignites it creates a negative pressure which forces more liquid up the wicks where the copper pipe is hot, converting the liquid to gas and into the loop. So, the fishing line idea wouldn't work here.
I had the same thought, fish tape the wick in, unless that cent of the coil needs to be empty
Mr C it’s an alcohol stove not butane. Butane is pressurized and would need only to open the valve to allow it to flow
@@mr.curviac8277 How does rubbing alcohol convert into butane gas??
@@crazysquirrel9425 Pass. 😆
I love how everything isn't exact. So many people get so caught up in making everything fit perfectly with exact measurements that don't really matter to the end product. This is great!
Thanks, yeah when I did this it was really just a casual thing, was never thinking this many people were going to watch it lol..
Some of us can’t help ourselves. I Don’t look down on those who don’t have the same affliction, though.
I have one question, why not just sweat the pipes into the lid instead of the JBWeld?
Just a suggestion: glue two lids together facing in opposite directions so when you are done cooking you can screw a jar on to cover the copper coil to prevent evaporation. That way you can store it for future use with the Alcohol in the wick jar.
What about the tubing that projects out BOTH SIDES of the lid? Don't put away your thinking cap yet, Henry.
Whisperin Pints he is says attach another lid to the existing one and then you can screw on a second jar to cover the coil assuming the coil is short enough
Henry Avery I think just dumping out any left over alcohol would be just as good. A quart can of denatured alcohol is still fairly cheap at the hardware store and 91% rubbing alcohol is even cheaper at the pharmacy.
I think two RINGS glued upside down to each other is what would work best...
I LOVE this idea. I would do that for home emergency use... larger jar on the bottom. same size coil. smaller jar on top. EASY STORAGE. GREAT tip.
JB just on the bottom works just fine. Also, if you don't have sand, sugar works fine. That's 1/4in copper if anyone is curious. ANY jar works fine. Any fuel works fine. Just sealed.
Thank you for giving out the measurement
@@aazv23 Thinners for paints? Please.
@GF_Burke what about the hole in the copper ?? Should it be a VERY small hole ?? I tried to make one (10mm copper tube) but it won’t work.. It will only burn with a small flame, I wonder what I’m doing wrong 🤔
@@cabomful The small flame is just when it's getting started, keep heating it up. should take off.
Leave the metal from the drill hole intact It gives the JB WELD more surface area to hold onto JB WELD will cover up the sharp metal
JB might dry up & crack with time
One of the best instructional, to the point videos I have seen.
That's 1/4" copper refrigeration tubing and the other one is a 1/2" x 3" nipple. Cool project!!
You should soak the wicks in alcohol before twisting them up the tube. Seems like that would make it much easier. Also, you could use the end of a toothpick to seal the hole when not in use.
Considering your a robot, your probably correct.
@CJ Wilemon What if I do him?
Its a perfect idea for camping purposes for a cup of coffee /tea. Reusable refrigerant copper tubing is also good material. Its only a matter of innovation for people who explore the future.
This has probably been mentioned already, but you can substitute frozen water for the sand. Tightly crimp one end of the copper then fill with water and crimp the remaining end. Freeze it and bend it to whatever shape you need. I have built many radio transmitters over the past 6 decades using this method to make power amplifier tank coils. Nice video! Thanks for sharing. --Mick
That doesn't cause problems from the water expanding when it freezes? Do you need to cut your tube longer to account for that or anything?
Table salt works too Mick.
the rubber caps are tight enough to hold water to freeze method [this is 1/4 inch ice maker line. rolls come with caps as intended for potable connection]
I like to prime mine by flipping over two times real quick. Heat from auto parts store or denatured alcohol works allot better, you don't end up with the 10, 20, 30% water in the bottom. I took a big open channel aluminum computer heat sink and put over one of my smaller ones and it made a great little heater. Of course always do this in a big aluminum turkey pan. You can put a big ceramic pot over the top and it radiates allot of heat.
So simple, but it's brilliant. Efficient, small and useful. Great share.!
Nice presentation. FYI: I used gauze strips and spun them tightly using my drill then pulled them through with a fine wire...Works great.
This reminds me of a project I did as a kid where I made a similar coil of copper and used a tea candle to power a little boat in water. The coil and candle kept a flow of water that propelled the boat. You mention that the drill bit is acting like a punch and leaving the metal burrs behind. With the issues you had drilling the lid... You actually should use a punch. The jobber will work fine as well but both require a hard enough backing material so that the pressure you apply to the cutting tool does not deform your lid. Also, start with a smaller drill bit.
I live on a ranch with a few hundred fruit trees. We always have a huge amount of fruit loss to birds and insects like wasps, so I have decided to make burning ethanol from the discarded fruit. I could use a burner like this instead of spending money on propane. In fact, I would like to try to use a few to heat a small room with the inverted clay pot heater idea.
Very clever... good to have in a time of no electricity, or camping or cooking indoors... Thank you for the great insights...
Thanks for sharing. I’m going to try with a wider jar and three aligned copper coils just enough to carry a pot. I want to use it as a mini stove. Wish you the Best! A lot of Blessings.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for a neat little video!!! It was presented well and made it look easy, especially for beginner DYI enthusiasts. Only basic tools required. Something I've found to help, (I keep on on my hobby-bench), take an old ball-point pen apart and save the bottom section. Straighten out a Large paperclip and, with needle-nose pliers, bend a small loop in one end, tiny enough to easily go down inside the ink-pen barrell, and lightly, flatten the tip, on the other end. Mix up some five minute JB weld and, with a popsicle stick, fill the ink-pen barrell up. Then insert the straightened out. Paper-clip. Use the old ink-pen refill, to push it out the other end till at least 1 1/2" is out there, and clean JB weld off the wire. Put the glue back in the barrell, that got shoved out when the refill came back out and screw the clip end back on with a little JB weld on it too...and forget it over night. (since it's inside, sometimes it takes longer to harden well.) This will be about the right size to do little tight pushing and probing hobby operations. It will also aid in installing your wick. ((A quick version would be to just open a large paperclip, almost up, and use the bent part for a handle, and lightly flatten the tip. Not as comfortable, but will still work). THANKS AGAIN. One quick question...is that RUBBING ALCOHOL you're using or ETHYL ALCOHOL. (You went by the camera too fast with the bottle label, for me to see the type of fuel.) I GOT TO BUILD ME ONE OF THESE.
Had one of these when I was a boy, (I admit it was shop bought) it was made of brass and ran on ordinary petrol, great little camping stove provided you took some sensible precautions like not using it inside the tent lol. The basic layout was identical to this with the exception that it had a primer dimple underneath the burner coil which you filled with a spot of petrol and lit to preheat and prime the jet. Thanks for the vid.
you must of had the StescO, got 3, around £30 on ebay, :)
You can also use a strand from a cotton mop, they will stand up to the heat. Just don't use a synthetic mop strand as they melt and plug the tube.
Great job on the small portable stove! Will be nice to take along ice fishing during the winter!
Iridium 242 Dear are many good videos on how to make this stove. What makes your tutorial special is your fine personality, and giving the viewer confidence that he or she can make this stove, and they don"t have to be perfect with the details. If you are not a professional teacher, then i believe you would be an excellent mentor!! Thank you for a job well done. Bruce the swimmer New Rochelle N.Y.
Thanks, no I have never been a teacher, but I do enjoy teaching things! Thanks for watching
You can also use frozen water in the tube also instead of sand.
I employed your idea but instead of using the "Kerr or Ball" tin plate lid, I used a piece of copper sheet and sweat soldered the copper coil burner to the copper plate lid. once cooled down, I made a thin gasket using high temp silicone (2,000 degree rated) used to seal cast iron stoves and BBQ'S. Turned out great. thanks for sharing your project. Kind regards! Eric Dee.
That's Exactly what I was thinking when watching this ! :) USE copper and solder it.
Post it.
It is the best solution when alcohol is involved, as alcohol attacks epoxy glues and degrades them.
Well, I told people in the comment section here when they talked about soldering the copper to the steel lid, it was impossible. And it is. But replacing the lid with copper sheeting is perfect! Great idea! That’s how I’m making mine. Thanks.
This is the same type of stove I used in a boyscouts 4 week adventure. It was a Philmont type of summer camp. We rode horses but we backpacked everywhere. They resupply the meals every week. Haven't seen these stoves since. Mine was probably from the 50s when I was using it in the 80s. It was copper and brass.
oh my god I used to use rubbing alcohol to heat my bedroom when I was super poor. I built all kinds of crazy ways to control and boost the radiant heat. best one i ever made I called the "fire flower," it was basically a perforated flower bulb shape with petals, made entirely from folded aluminum foil. The pedals would help hold and control the flames and the perforations in the bulb allowed the fumes to come out in a measured manner. It was SUPER effective, but of course had to be rebuilt every 2 weeks or so. This is amazing to me
If you don't have sand you could put water in the tube and freeze it. This is used for bending brass instrument tubing.
My first camping stove was a cheap POS based on this principle. It was made of some kind of brass-like metal, had detachable L-shaped pot supports like upside-down legs, and was designed for white gas. Gave it a brief test and it seemed OK. First trip out, it developed a case of thermal runaway, shooting 8-inch green (copper) flames out either side of the coil, right past my little camp pan. I thought it was going to kill us or burn the park down. Scary experience shutting it down too. Never used it again.
This was a great video! Using your directions with a couple modification, I built three stoves to use as decorative tabletop heaters by adding a small aluminum half-cylinder about 8" tall JB Welded to the backside of the jar lid with another jar lid capping off the top to serve as a reflector, and a mantle made of 5" tall steel mesh rolled and crimped to sit on top of the jar lid, inside the reflector. I JB welded a chili can lid to the top of the mantle as a cap. Once the copper loop is lit, the mantle heats up and glows red, becoming an IR heater which amplifies and concentrates the heat produced. I used the muffler repair version of JB Weld since it's supposed to be more thermally resistant, but that's probably not necessary at these temperatures.
Ths is really neat. I have some 1/4" copper tubing and JB Weld in the garage so I am going to put them to good use. Like the comments about improving the design - adding a reverse cap so we can seal the jar when not in use and heating with a bottle cap. To that end, I plan to weld a small container of some sort under the coil so it can be filled with fuel and lit to heat up the coils when starting the unit since I doubt I will be carrying a torch with me. That is how we primed the burners of the old kerosene stoves we had back home.
I am really excited to make some of these, using your techniques, as well as some suggested by viewers.
They're all unique in their own build. But they're all functional! Awesome build I loved it!
The idea is perfect&simple as well! I used the part of FIRED OFF WATER SPIRAL HEATER - just cut of a part of it, remove the wire+sand from inside, and you have the copper tube already bent.
Now that's a good idea. It looks pretty simple and effective. The cost is also probably rather low. I think I could make one easily.
Sand tip is great, I would say drill it out while still in the vice it would make it easier, if you use copper fridge pipe you would get a thicker wall and it measures at 3/8 Imperial or 9mm Metric Great video
This is a very good idea of getting the fuel to the heated coil through a wick rather with the compressed air as we used to do with the old Primus! Rather than drilling the two holes with an exact drill, it would provide more support to the coil if one uses a smaller drill then with a tapered wooden screw, push the taper slowly in the hole till the extra material is burred/ bent over till the diameter is correct. The extra material left bent over in the hole will give better vertical support to the coil. If the coil is soldered or glued in there would be a better joint.
Excellent! I’m a canner & have these 1/2 pint jars. Great idea, simple & efficient! Only down side is glass jar, easy to break but size of it makes easier to protect if packed properly.
I was thinking about that myself, I wonder if you could “paint” the jar with JB weld. Even if dropped and broke the JB weld should keep it sealed and leak proof.
You can also use compression fittings on the copper pipe instead of messing around with JB Weld.
This is really cool because you can use this as a standard alcohol burner for chemistry type experiments or even micro-biological work. Moreover, if you pre-cut the wick to the length of the copper tubing, and then run it through the tube before making your bends; it will eliminate some of your final steps in the production process. One of the other things that I like about this burner is that not only does it give off a good amount of heat but the flame is not as bright as an ordinary flame from a candle and therefore it gives you a tactical advantage when light discipline is important. Overall, it is a very useful tool. :-)
Problem if you put the wick in first, it makes it harder to put the sand in and clear out...
Guy your gonna burn your wick then . That heated area is where the vaporized fuel is pressurized
Filling the evaporation coil with solid fuel gives you a yellow flame because you are burning cotton, with an accelerant. Only worse light discipline than that is acetylene. Just knock it off. If you cosplay as gi joe when shtf all that happens is the real Boogeyman knows which house the guns are in. Lol, light discipline. I can see the end of your cigarette glowing in the woods and illuminating trees for a quarter mile. Longer if the leaves are down.
@@Altrag_ Cool your jets buckaroo. I can spot a cigarette too. Sometimes, my comments aren't only to get the author to think but rather, the directed audience. As for being a soldier, I was probably a soldier long before you were born (before video game armchair warriors). Next time, try to be a little more gracious with the comments and more understanding with whom you are speaking.
@@rogerstillwell7176 Roger your idea is still very bunk ...your not saving steps your ruining the burner and then also burning the snot outta your wick
great idea I have three in a triangle and rest my pan on top! ps I soldered mine.
That sand trick is beautiful, simple and cheap.
JBW is good cars and engines get hot. I once repaired an oven and it was great. I used it 3 years before i moved from that apartment. Going strong when i left.
WOW THATS FRICKIN SMART THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING
I personally would love to just go into Home Depot or Lowe's and have a copper wire already cut and designed for me. This way if I do not want the extra material, it keeps it quick and simple for several different types of projects. Cool idea.
Thank you,I didn't know I could do this,and now I will.
Good man. The way you explained how to build the lamp was great 👍
Just learned something new today. Thanks for sharing.
I'm very into survival hacks I really like this idea !!!!!!
WOW thank you for this video, I WILL be making quite a few of these for my family and friends who share prepping ideas with me., again thank you!
This is my next DIY project for the weekend! Thanks for sharing this!👍
Awesome device ! I’m for sure going to make one ! You could set it inside a # 10 can or metal coffee can to give you something to set a pan or pot on. It would need to be open on both ends and have air holes in the side! A step drill works extremely well on thin metal ! It won’t grab like a regular drill bit !
That's so cool! I'm impressed and I don't mean that sarcastically either.
Isn’t it sad that on KZhead you have to actually specify that :)
I don't get it. Theres not a single reason this could have been sarcastic.
I bought a Henry Golden Boy about a year ago,and You guys captured My excitement and joy in your video! I LOVE this rifle...the "Evil Roy" is next on My list! Thanks😎
Nice instructional video. I made one by filing the copper tube with water and freezing it. It also bends nice
Very neat build and very simple....thanks for sharing. Very well presented too,
if you want to make larger ones, take a string tie it to the end of the wick. use a small keyboard vacuum and vacuum out one side. The string will feed through and you can pull the wick to the right position! it would be cool to see a double or triple loop... Great concept!!! thank you plan on making a few myself
Yes, old electrician trick... Use a vacuum.
Great job I loved the simplicity and the depth of explanation I just watched my first video and subscribed
A true craftsman! Way to go thinking outside of the box! 👍💯
Neat stove bud but the tip about the sand AWSOMELY GENIUS!! Rock on! 👍👍👊
love the idea, love the concept, love how you build it, and most of the top... love the way you deliver it! it's sounds waaaaaay easy and fun! superb!
You do a super job explaining everything. About the wick, one thing that might work is to first measure a piece of thin wire to the same size as the coil. Take the piece that goes to the right coil, connect it to the wire you just measured, connect the other end to the other wick that will go on the other side of the coil, thread it thru the copper tube BEFORE making the coil. Have both wicks out of each end as you described THEN fill the tube with the sand, cap each end over the wick, and make the coil. The wire will stay in the pipe with the wicks attached from each end as you so eloquently described how to do. Might work.
so how to get sand off wick?
That wouldn't work as well for bending the tubing. A wick compresses a lot more than sand does and would more easily produce kinks during bending. Since the wick is only needed in the legs, insert them after you make the coil. A short length of wire, like from a leftover piece of hose wiring, or a kitchen skewer would easily help shove the wick up the leg, especially if you double the wick over the end.
I would suggest cutting a 12" × 12" piece of plywood and glue it to the bottom of the jar. To prevent knocking it over!😮 Plus building a metal frame over it for cooking. Tip: you could also put the jar in a bucket of sand with a band of copper. With both end in deep into the sand to heat the sand up as a long running heater. Plus, you could also have a frame over top for cooking or you could sit a terracotta pot over top of that as a heat storage space heater to. Just like for the 72 hour candles.❤
Excellent design and 2 which I have made both work great . Added a small amount of fiberglass house insulation inside the jar which helps to keep the fuel from "sloshing" around . Thank you once again Iridium 242 and have an excellent New Year !
wow what an awesome tutorial! Thanks for the lesson, I really enjoyed it.
Brilliant idea! I actually suffer from mental health problems and you have got me all excited to try this project! So glad I happened upon your channel. As a big thank you I subscribed, too!! Thank you for making me feel good, I haven't felt too good in quite a while!! ☺️🤗❤️👍🔥
Awesome, if you have any questions feel free to ask!
I loved this video thank you! You're really great at teaching. My husband and I are going to try to make one.
Similar alcohol burners had been produced commercially in Japan for school laboratory use and for mountaineering. I prefered to use my alcohol burner with three loops for mountaineering over gas/gasoline/paraffin oil burners because of reliability. Later imported Trangia burner expelled them from the market.
Neat trick! I have a multi-fuel stove that does a similar thing vaporizing fuel, just with a metered flow instead of a wick. It's cleanest with white gas, but will work with kero/deisel/jet, lamp oil, even most petroleum solvents (stay clear of fumes!), and alcohols. For yours, therefore, I imagine you're not limited to alcohol, and predict kerosene will work very well in there, albeit with a bit of soot. Please do be very careful if you try anything more volatile / lower flash point/ higher vapour pressure than alcohol - and gasoline is _right out!_ Mine is an old old MSR Whisperlight, if you're wondering. Very light, very reliable, fully user serviceable. I also love that the fuel is manually pressurized in its companion bottle at run time, stored unpressurized, and needs no consumable fuel bottles. For some fuels there's a wick needed for the pilot burn (your "prime") and for some emergency fuels like alcohol or some solvents, the fuel pump valve and component would need to be serviced afterwards, but burn it sure will.
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I enjoyed your video. It's like going to a friends house to see what he is up to and coming away with plans to copy what he made. Well done.
I love this little stove. It looks like a great way to do some covert cooking in a SHTF situation!
When I saw the project you made, I realized that it could be put inside a metal coffee can or a #10 tomato juice can with several holes drilled in the bottom of the larger can, and a piece of metal screening on the top of it, to make it into a stove capable of warming up coffee or a can ofsoup... even cooking breakfast
Yeah a few weeks or days after I did this vid, I did another in my "hobo stove" which is a coffee can, it worked great! kzhead.info/sun/krtsqJ1vhGmnhoE/bejne.html
I really like your happy disposition
Cool. If you don't have, can't find, or don't want to buy wicks, you can use cotton balls. Just unroll one and twist it into a fine thread. When it pulls the fuel up into the tube, it will expand to completely fill the tube.
Really nice little stove.
very well done and something I have never made before or thought of before! A diagram would be very useful here at the opening of the video.
Pretty awesome. Well done clear and concise words. Easy to follow directions. Thanks I will be making a few of these as well.
Awesome video mate. Thanks for such a wicked idea and project.
I saw another video like this but the jar was much larger, wick much longer and was built and used to heat greenhouses. Wondering how warm an area it can heat and how long. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
I have a 5ft x 5ft x 6 ft deer stand that is insulated and one of of these made out of a pint jar heats it just fine. On a mid 40s day it easily gets it to mid 70s inside the stand.
@@user-neo71665 Neo, how much fuel does it consume over say, 4 hours. Thank you in advance.
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Said the walrus to his son.
Also Netflix father's to their sons.
Aahh ha-haa-haah! Right you are fine sir. Thank you kindly for the advice and for the laughter it produced. I hope you have a good day and may God bless you & your loved ones! PEACE from NC.
Duuuude .. The *Sand/dirt packed thru the copper-line to prevent pinching or kinking.. 😯 Idk if it's a new idea/ your original idea, or perhaps I'm just late to the party on that one, but... GENIUS. 👀🧠💥👌 👏 🤯 GENIUS.
Nice build, thank you. I notice that you have a tall yellow flame indicative of incomplete combustion; you would probably get a cleaner burn (blue flame) with a smaller hole on the tube.
That's a great little stove! Thanks for the video.
Thanks Dude.... Im gonna make it one for me, it will help me alot
Even though 7yrs old AV... Still good to see beautiful engineering.. Thanks.
what a great project .. I think i might be trying one of those for sure .. thanks
I like this, I'm going to have to build myself one
I think I'll build few and pass them around during Christmas...
thank you for your time and effort YAH-WEY
Awesome, I’m headed to Walmart to start my project, Thanks for your video
Great idea with the sand ,fabulous thankyou very much .
Jb weld is awesome......we fixed broken drive shaft on m113 personel carrier with vicegrips and jb weld
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That sounds impressive. Good one for mythbusters.? 💡
Wonderful way showing it. I can see why is very efficiansy, your fumes are sealed and no place to escape accept just the hole that's burning . Well done...
This is a cool thing to make and have around if you need to keep warm or cooking.im going to try it out myself if i get stuck somewhere out in the Snow in a Car over night. Thank you for your time in showing Us how to make this.
I enjoyed the video and this would be perfect to be used in a tent stove but I would also like to be able to get this excited about making something like this. You are blessed with a great personality~!!
Great video . Im gonna make a few of these .
for a longer life wick try Kevlar I use Kevlar wicks for fire spinning they hold the fuel better
In the case of these stoves, it doesn’t matter, because since the wicks are never exposed to the flame, they’ll last forever...
I just made one following your instructions and it turned out fantastic mine burns almost like a jet engine thanks for the sand tip
... how long was the burn time ?... gonna make one for winter Michigan camping
What size copper pipe di you use?