By popular request, I am starting my first topic: Rocket stoves!
I am at work now and can't type a long post, but here is a tutorial video that got me started.
My nephew is a cub scout and he wants to make the bricks himself, which I could easily see him doing.
I didn't have the tools to cut the bricks, especially since I was using concrete red bricks (25 cents each), so I bought pavers and figured out a way to hit them just right with a hammer so they would break almost in half. (Pavers are half thick bricks.) I placed the paver across two regular sized bricks which had a gap of about 1 1/2 inches between them. Then I learned after many failures not to whack it with the flat of the hammer, but to angle the head of the hammer so that a narrow edge of the business end hit the paver as it bridged the two regular bricks. It wasn't completely accurate, but it didn't have to be for my project. If you are able to cut the bricks, it will look neater !
Here is the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSMR2ANIZ7E&feature=related
Rocket stoves can also be made from #10 cans. They are lighter and more portable. You can buy them, but it's a ridiculous markup.
http://rocket-stove.com/
I was going to try one out of tin cans, but I don't have snips and I couldn't figure out how to get the cans to stay together other than welding.
Here is a wealth of information on different ways to make them. I wonder if one of these would be sufficient to boil the maple.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rocket+stove&search_type=
Yikes. back to work. Enjoy !
Edited to fix links
I am at work now and can't type a long post, but here is a tutorial video that got me started.
My nephew is a cub scout and he wants to make the bricks himself, which I could easily see him doing.
I didn't have the tools to cut the bricks, especially since I was using concrete red bricks (25 cents each), so I bought pavers and figured out a way to hit them just right with a hammer so they would break almost in half. (Pavers are half thick bricks.) I placed the paver across two regular sized bricks which had a gap of about 1 1/2 inches between them. Then I learned after many failures not to whack it with the flat of the hammer, but to angle the head of the hammer so that a narrow edge of the business end hit the paver as it bridged the two regular bricks. It wasn't completely accurate, but it didn't have to be for my project. If you are able to cut the bricks, it will look neater !
Here is the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSMR2ANIZ7E&feature=related
Rocket stoves can also be made from #10 cans. They are lighter and more portable. You can buy them, but it's a ridiculous markup.
http://rocket-stove.com/
I was going to try one out of tin cans, but I don't have snips and I couldn't figure out how to get the cans to stay together other than welding.
Here is a wealth of information on different ways to make them. I wonder if one of these would be sufficient to boil the maple.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rocket+stove&search_type=
Yikes. back to work. Enjoy !
Edited to fix links
