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Image Notes 1. Cotton Balls 2. Metal Strips 3. Altoid Tin, fairly important 4. Alcohol! loves to catch on fire =D 5. Nails and a thumbtack. They are happy to see you!
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6. Lighter, also likes being on fire. But just the tip 7. Measuring implement 8. Hacksaw. I used it once. I am fairly impatient. 9. I like Gerber =D 10. Hammer, for hitting things 11. Sandpaper 12. Pliers, mostly handy for plying
Image Notes 1. Hinge is closed 2. Hinge is open 3. The sharpie marks are notes from when this particular tin was a piggy bank. A crude one.
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Image Notes 1. Thumbtack, or nail and hammer. Its up to you, whichever works for you is best. 2. Bang bang Maxwell's... steel hammer... 3. I have begun the process of making daylight shine through this lid. Image Notes 1. Again, the choice is yours. 2. Clang clang! 3. The lid is done being poked. For the most part, anyway. Tweaks can still occur. 4. Not pictured: Block of wood
Image Notes 1. This hinge is open 2. This hinge is closed 3. Hole 4. Hole 5. Hole 6. Hole 7. Hole 8. Hole 9. Hole 10. Hole 11. Hole 12. Hole 13. Hole
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14. Hole 15. Hole 16. Hole 17. Hole 18. Hole 19. Hole 20. Hole 21. Hole 22. Not Hole!
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Image Notes 1. Slit, v shaped to allow maximum fitting with the other strip. 2. Slit, v shaped to allow proper fit with the other strip.
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Image Notes 1. Alcohol has been poured on, and lit. Stove is going from priming to functional.
Image Notes 1. Pot stand is now in place. Avoid burning yourself with this step.
Image Notes 1. I boiled water in here earlier today, in fact. 2. The stove is down here 3. Handy pad for insulation. You can not tell, but the lit stove is on top of some insulation foam.
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rhrgrt says:
Apr 30, 2010. 8:12 PM REPLY happybuddha: Disconnecting the lid is useful as far as hammering nails into the lid goes. It makes it easier to punch holes without disfiguring the lid. MadScott: I mentioned replacing the cotton with fiberglass in the fifth step, toward the end =) yeturbumi: It would certainly be feasible to add an electric starter, I'm fine with a lighter, but if you devise a piezo starter for a stove, let me know how that works out for you =D
happybuddha says:
Apr 30, 2010. 4:14 PM REPLY What am I missing, why is it necessary to disconnect the lid and then reconnect it, if all you do in the interim is punch holes in the lid?
MadScott says:
Good, painless project! Maybe a few tufts of fiberglass insulation (fireproof, won't rot) in place of of the cotton?
Apr 29, 2010. 2:43 PM REPLY Great project! I may try it sometime. I wonder, could you possibly add a small electric sparker to the inside of the tin? That might make it easier to light.
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