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re: thermal mass
> These bottles are quite thick walled (0.7mm) and there must be quite a lot of energy wasted in raising the temperature of that mass of aluminium Yes, heating the burner does take energy, an...

In Make Your Own Gear » Slow burn slightly pressurised alcohol stove
June 23, 6:08am

'inverted conic' burner
Here's the 'inverted conic' burner: [edit] no it isn't; BPL doesn't seem to like the format of the URL for HTML 'img' tag insertions...

In Make Your Own Gear » Slow burn slightly pressurised alcohol stove
June 22, 6:07am

re: Just my two-pennyworth
> if you look at the photos carefully you'll see that the threaded portion has been sealed off Aha! I could see there was _something_ at the bottom, but not what it was. My guess for ...

In Make Your Own Gear » Slow burn slightly pressurised alcohol stove
June 22, 6:02am

details, details...
What's the bottle, BTW? One of the World Cup Buds, or a smaller bottle? The long burn sounds potentially useful, and I'm wondering why it burns slowly; maybe just the small number of je...

In Make Your Own Gear » Slow burn slightly pressurised alcohol stove
June 21, 12:09pm

looks familiar...
Looks rather like the 'inverted conic' burners I build, and the 'Lynx' can burners discussed somewhere in the huge OM How to Make Meths Stoves Q&A thread. I know we discussed a...

In Make Your Own Gear » Slow burn slightly pressurised alcohol stove
June 21, 12:01pm

re: Other spreader bar design???
Henk, I toyed with ideas for some sort of gadget like yours, but then remembered that I'd once made an ad-hoc bipod for my mirror telephoto using the poles and their straps. By adjusting th...

In Make Your Own Gear » Input on MYOG tarp/tent design?
June 20, 12:13pm

re: big hole
> No matter which direction it faces the air will follow the path of least resistance. The large hole will be sucking in lots of air. The chimney effect is drawing the air into the large hole fi...

In Make Your Own Gear » New Titanium Caldera Clone
June 20, 11:39am

re: 'big hole'
> The large tab hole at the bottom looks like it will cause a large draft of air to blow against one side of the stove and cause flames to be pushed to the back side Dan, The solution is v...

In Make Your Own Gear » New Titanium Caldera Clone
June 17, 9:32am

re: clarification on the tabs
> Thanks for the explanation on the tabs. The tabs I was refering to were the ones shaped like piramids at the top and bottom, not the tabs that slide left to right in the center of the cone. ...

In Make Your Own Gear » New Titanium Caldera Clone
June 17, 7:40am

re: tabs & pan
Dan, You may be making a common misunderstanding about how the tabs work. If you look carefully, you'll see that there's a tab at either end of the clone; one points out, one points in....

In Make Your Own Gear » New Titanium Caldera Clone
June 16, 12:06pm

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