Soda Can Stoves - Page 2

**TPS -TNRobocop** · 06-30-2009, 03:17 AM

During Desert Storm in Iraq we took the small soup cans, put some small vent holes in them, filled them with sand, soaked the sand with diesel, and burned that to heat up our canteen cups of coffe, ramen, etc.

**Ranger Rick** · 06-30-2009, 09:16 AM

Fun to make, but many are pretty flimsy. My favorite is a Brasslite.
Brasslite Ultralight Alcohol Backpacking and Camping Stove

$20 or $30 for the stove, $6 for the fuel dispenser... worth the dollars if you camp much at all. I'ld buy them again in a heart beat. Always amazes me how 1/2 oz of fuel will boil lots of water in 5 or 6 minutes. Just slick!!

**mikedwood** · 06-30-2009, 07:21 PM

Neat post. I think I'll try it.

**aj81557** · 07-07-2009, 04:07 PM

didn't read all the above, but when I was yougner I would make "fire can" put either gas, diesle or kero in a steel can, and roll up a sheet of paper similiar to a wick and light it and it would burn for a long time. now Iwould be careful with gas though, but with gas it would just burn slowly light a regular leaf fire, now blow into it and it would flame up because it would get a big increase in oxygen to the fire

**ab28** · 07-14-2009, 09:12 PM

I made one out of a potted meat can, even simpler than the soda can one, works just as well or better. You have the stove, windscreen, and potstand all in one unit.

**gunsablazin** · 07-21-2009, 12:40 PM

Soaked my rolling papers on a canoe trip years ago, and in desperation made a functional pipe from a coke can. Probably not useful info for most TGOers and I no longer errr, roll my own either!

**Hi Point** · 07-22-2009, 05:11 PM

Love making these things, when I was a kid I must have made 100 soda can and other can stoves with many different fuels. Alcohol is a fun/ easy to get/ clean burning fuel.

**pontiac_fiero_g** · 11-13-2009, 12:42 PM

i made a few now but with a modified preheater. i use a tim can and cut a square out of the side and fit my stove into the top and just light some alchy below it to warm it up

**Mark@Sea** · 11-14-2009, 08:45 PM

Made a couple myself - found that I like the preheater-insulator idea, the alcohol boils faster. I might carry one to use with my canteen cup/stove. (Loves me a GI canteen cup).
They make a nice backup for me, but they aren't my primary stove. My primary hiking stove is a SVEA 123, second choice an M-1950 (Updated version of the WWII GI pocket stove) and third choice (First choice if I have a vehicle or some sucker to carry it for me) is the Coleman 502.

**SUNTZU** · 11-14-2009, 08:46 PM

Model 1950, Svea stove, and the Coleman 502.

06-30-2009, 03:17 AM	#11 (permalink)
TPS -TNRobocop TGO Member Supporting Vendor Joined: Jan 2008 Where: Nashville, TN Age: 39 Posts: 342	During Desert Storm in Iraq we took the small soup cans, put some small vent holes in them, filled them with sand, soaked the sand with diesel, and burned that to heat up our canteen cups of coffe, ramen, etc. __________________ 01 FFL / NFA SOT Dealer TNPOST Handgun, Shotgun, & Patrol Rifle Instructor WWW.TennesseePoliceSupply.Com

06-30-2009, 09:16 AM	#12 (permalink)
Ranger Rick TGO Member Joined: Jun 2008 Where: Knoxville, TN Posts: 85	Worth the extra money... Fun to make, but many are pretty flimsy. My favorite is a Brasslite. Brasslite Ultralight Alcohol Backpacking and Camping Stove $20 or $30 for the stove, $6 for the fuel dispenser... worth the dollars if you camp much at all. I'ld buy them again in a heart beat. Always amazes me how 1/2 oz of fuel will boil lots of water in 5 or 6 minutes. Just slick!! __________________ Shoot straight... and grin more, Ranger Rick "When seconds count... the police are just minutes away!" That's not a put down... just the reality. "Unlike the elitist view that believes Americans cling to guns out of bitterness, today's ruling recognizes that gun ownership is a fundamental right — sacred, just as the right to free speech and assembly." John McCain 26 June 2008

06-30-2009, 07:21 PM	#13 (permalink)
mikedwood TGO Senior Member Joined: Mar 2008 Where: Oak Ridge, Tn Age: 41 Posts: 1,077	Neat post. I think I'll try it. __________________ "Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now." Thomas Jefferson “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” Benjamin Franklin FREE THE SEALS!!!!

07-14-2009, 09:12 PM	#15 (permalink)
ab28 TGO Member Joined: Nov 2008 Where: Murfreesboro, TN Age: 30 Posts: 184	I made one out of a potted meat can, even simpler than the soda can one, works just as well or better. You have the stove, windscreen, and potstand all in one unit. __________________ The two most abundant elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

07-21-2009, 12:40 PM	#16 (permalink)
gunsablazin TGO Member Joined: Aug 2007 Where: Traveling toward the East Age: 45 Posts: 330	Soda can pipe? Soaked my rolling papers on a canoe trip years ago, and in desperation made a functional pipe from a coke can. Probably not useful info for most TGOers and I no longer errr, roll my own either! __________________ "I tell you, we are on earth to fart around and don't let anybody tell you different" - Kurt Vonnegut

07-07-2009, 04:07 PM	#14 (permalink)
aj81557 TGO Member Joined: Jul 2009 Where: knoxville tn Posts: 356	didn't read all the above, but when I was yougner I would make "fire can" put either gas, diesle or kero in a steel can, and roll up a sheet of paper similiar to a wick and light it and it would burn for a long time. now Iwould be careful with gas though, but with gas it would just burn slowly light a regular leaf fire, now blow into it and it would flame up because it would get a big increase in oxygen to the fire

07-22-2009, 05:11 PM	#17 (permalink)
Hi Point TGO Member Joined: Jun 2009 Where: Chattanooga Posts: 60	Love making these things, when I was a kid I must have made 100 soda can and other can stoves with many different fuels. Alcohol is a fun/ easy to get/ clean burning fuel. __________________ Reloaderz your source for all things reloading Come learn how to reload your primers! We look forward to seeing you over there, and make sure to let us know you are from TN when you introduce yourself!

11-13-2009, 12:42 PM	#18 (permalink)
pontiac_fiero_g TGO Member Joined: Mar 2009 Where: knoxville and sometimes seymour tennessee Age: 22 Posts: 67	i made a few now but with a modified preheater. i use a tim can and cut a square out of the side and fit my stove into the top and just light some alchy below it to warm it up

11-14-2009, 08:45 PM	#19 (permalink)
Mark@Sea TGO Senior Member Joined: Jul 2007 Where: Kingsport, more or less Age: 46 Posts: 1,750	Made a couple myself - found that I like the preheater-insulator idea, the alcohol boils faster. I might carry one to use with my canteen cup/stove. (Loves me a GI canteen cup). They make a nice backup for me, but they aren't my primary stove. My primary hiking stove is a SVEA 123, second choice an M-1950 (Updated version of the WWII GI pocket stove) and third choice (First choice if I have a vehicle or some sucker to carry it for me) is the Coleman 502. __________________

11-14-2009, 08:46 PM	#20 (permalink)
SUNTZU CONTACT!!!one!!11!eleven! Joined: Dec 2007 Where: Road Warrior Age: 32 Posts: 5,091 Blog Entries: 7	Model 1950, Svea stove, and the Coleman 502. __________________ كافر TGO CODE OF CONDUCT VIOLATOR KNOXVILLE ORIGINAL

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