Nice! I like experimental builds. I make a lot of stuff from cans - coffee-cans, bean-cans, coke-cans, beer-cans, etc. FYI your kitchen scissors will cut the lids/sides easier and cleaner than tin snips will, as will a Stanley (box-cutter) or craft knife :)

Good morning Tom. Thanks for sharing this prototype build. I was waiting for you to add a pinecone or larger fuel lump in the bottom to aid in concentrating sustained heat under the pot of water. This is where the value of the rocket stove design comes into play by allowing a channel to add fuel while leaving the cooking pot remain on the chimney. (Future discussion talking point.) Nice reference to and use of safety gear. Perhaps a bail handle made from a pants hanger with the cardboard tube removed. Wishing you and your family a blessed week. Peace brother

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Awesome! If you get the same size can drill holes on the bottom of that can. Cut the can to the very bottom where the holes are and put it on the very bottom of the stove. Use a big binder clip and you can adjust your stove. How to make an adjustable ring. :) Wait for the stove to get hot first, then play around with the adjuster. :)

I like how you explained the airflow thing. I have several of these stoves in various sizes. My main problem is they go out if the wind blows, even slightly. Then they smoke for an hour. I don't know if the holes are letting too much wind in or if it needs more/bigger holes to let more air in. I'll be watching for part 2. Hope you find the problem. When you build the next one, try a load of wood pellets and light the top with some alcohol or lighter fluid. When my biggest one is in the mood it will burn over 40 minutes on about 2 cups of pellets. The only catch is they fall out if your bottom holes are too big.

Good on you for giving this a try Tom, wood gas stoves are quite tricky.

You can add a stainless steel cake cooler with feet so you don't have to use rocks. You can also drill stainless steel screws for the feet.

Good to see you back! It was the rocket stoves that first brought me to your channel. This is a valuable experiment into small stoves that operate like the solo. Thanks! I have an idea for a video that is a compilation of all the times the train shows up in your videos!

Good informational video. I also notice on small stoves like this too they have holes in the bottom of burn chamber. I know you put a shin bottom as insulator. Maybe just both this bottom lids and just drill holes in them. These soup can stoves dupont last forever anyway. Just a thought.

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This looks like a great lightweight semi-disposable way to have a nice stove for hiking and camping. Great narration Tom!

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Great to see you back and recovered from the "rona"! Love the experimental builds and even the fails too--as that's just real life my friend ;-)

Also if you drill holes at the top of the can you will have a lot less smoke.

I've been watching some older videos about these stoves and it seems like only two things really matter. 1. Diameter of the cans. They should be close to the same. You want the space between them to me minimal so it heats up quickly and maintains it's temperature. But you don't want it so small that it restricts the airflow. 2. Air holes. You need enough but not too many. Get those two things right and everybody is happy.

When I took my food prep classes in high school and college, we were taught that the tip of the flame was the hottest part; so, that meant that the flame should not come up the sides of the pan, even a little bit. If I accidentally burned myself on the flame, it did not matter to my skin which part of the flame got to it. Fire is hot no matter where I touched it and I would get burned. I do not have a thermometer that is able to be immersed into fire; so, have never been able to test it out. Three different teachers have said pretty much the same thing, though. They all said that the tip of the flame should barely touch the bottom of the pan. If. you don't have a larger can, maybe you can find one at a local restaurant. Call them. Commercial size cans are big. For the inner can, you might be able to use a juice can like tomato juice would come in.

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I think that the pot you used for the water was too big. A smaller surface area would heat faster with the size of cans you are using.

Its a TLUD stove

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Try pellets ?