DIY Alcohol Stoves
Since about seven years ago, my favored backpacking stoves have been the two pepsi can stoves that I made. Since I'm planning a trip for later this summer, I figured it was about time to try some of the newer designs found at or linked from the http://zenstoves.net/ site.
So today I built two Hybrid SideBurner Jet Alcohol Stoves (using the Simplified Zen Alcohol Sideburner design), and one "penny stove" as designed by Mark Jurey.
I guess I'm not getting the hang of priming them quite yet. The pepsi ones spoil you because they're sorta self-priming and the shape is quite wind-resistant during priming. By contrast, these new ones both seem to need a primer pan. But once they got going, they sure were pretty! And I think I'm going to like the simple side-burning ones best, because they don't require a pot stand.
I'll do some more testing over the next month, before deciding on a winner.
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