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Great stuff. I made a bunch of alcohol stoves, but now I have a RUCAS stove which is a lot tougher than pop-can ones (greater wall thickness). Then I made a three-pointed stand for better stability on rocks, long grass etc, which also insulates it from cold ground (it's a bit fancy looking because I have access to a waterjet cutter, but principle remains unchanged).
Version 2 of the stand will incorporate a priming pan to speed up priming. I think I can get away with much thinner alu with the use of some clever folds.
Alcohol stoves work much, much better with a windshield - mine is just aluminium duct, going from the ground to the top of the pot.
I'd also suggest using a wider, shallower pot rather than the tall-thin ones that seem to be popular these days - alcohol stoves are relatively wider than most canister stoves so a lot of heat escapes up the sides if using a narrow pot.
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Nice bits.
Understand your point about wider pan, i grabbed a saucepan when testing at home and it "holds" the flame much better. Trangia also good example of this.
I'm using an old ghee container as a prototype windshield (& stove/fuel carrier) but am finding the flames bloom out of the lower air inlets I drilled... going to tinker a bit more.
rhb
New can stoves made tonight, based on this video. Need for stapler limits making them on the go though.
https://youtu.be/7hdnBHb09iI
Tested, they work much better than the knife only one from summer.