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The sand tip is worth every minute of this video.

Just a suggestion: glue two lids together facing in opposite directions so when you are done cooking you can screw a jar on to cover the copper coil to prevent evaporation. That way you can store it for future use with the Alcohol in the wick jar.

I love how everything isn't exact. So many people get so caught up in making everything fit perfectly with exact measurements that don't really matter to the end product. This is great!

I'd run a fishing line into the copper tube. Tie it to the wick so I could pull it through. Fishing line will quickly go through the tube. I really enjoyed your video. You are an excellent teacher!

A guitar string works great for getting the wick into the copper tube, very flexible and very sturdy.

This has probably been mentioned already, but you can substitute frozen water for the sand. Tightly crimp one end of the copper then fill with water and crimp the remaining end. Freeze it and bend it to whatever shape you need. I have built many radio transmitters over the past 6 decades using this method to make power amplifier tank coils. Nice video! Thanks for sharing. --Mick

JB just on the bottom works just fine. Also, if you don't have sand, sugar works fine. That's 1/4in copper if anyone is curious. ANY jar works fine. Any fuel works fine. Just sealed.

One of the best instructional, to the point videos I have seen.

That's 1/4" copper refrigeration tubing and the other one is a 1/2" x 3" nipple. Cool project!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH for a neat little video!!! It was presented well and made it look easy, especially for beginner DYI enthusiasts. Only basic tools required. Something I've found to help, (I keep on on my hobby-bench), take an old ball-point pen apart and save the bottom section. Straighten out a Large paperclip and, with needle-nose pliers, bend a small loop in one end, tiny enough to easily go down inside the ink-pen barrell, and lightly, flatten the tip, on the other end. Mix up some five minute JB weld and, with a popsicle stick, fill the ink-pen barrell up. Then insert the straightened out. Paper-clip. Use the old ink-pen refill, to push it out the other end till at least 1 1/2" is out there, and clean JB weld off the wire. Put the glue back in the barrell, that got shoved out when the refill came back out and screw the clip end back on with a little JB weld on it too...and forget it over night. (since it's inside, sometimes it takes longer to harden well.) This will be about the right size to do little tight pushing and probing hobby operations. It will also aid in installing your wick. ((A quick version would be to just open a large paperclip, almost up, and use the bent part for a handle, and lightly flatten the tip. Not as comfortable, but will still work). THANKS AGAIN. One quick question...is that RUBBING ALCOHOL you're using or ETHYL ALCOHOL. (You went by the camera too fast with the bottle label, for me to see the type of fuel.) I GOT TO BUILD ME ONE OF THESE.

So simple, but it's brilliant. Efficient, small and useful. Great share.!

Very clever... good to have in a time of no electricity, or camping or cooking indoors... Thank you for the great insights...

Had one of these when I was a boy, (I admit it was shop bought) it was made of brass and ran on ordinary petrol, great little camping stove provided you took some sensible precautions like not using it inside the tent lol. The basic layout was identical to this with the exception that it had a primer dimple underneath the burner coil which you filled with a spot of petrol and lit to preheat and prime the jet. Thanks for the vid.

I like to prime mine by flipping over two times real quick. Heat from auto parts store or denatured alcohol works allot better, you don't end up with the 10, 20, 30% water in the bottom. I took a big open channel aluminum computer heat sink and put over one of my smaller ones and it made a great little heater. Of course always do this in a big aluminum turkey pan. You can put a big ceramic pot over the top and it radiates allot of heat.

Nice presentation. FYI: I used gauze strips and spun them tightly using my drill then pulled them through with a fine wire...Works great.

Its a perfect idea for camping purposes for a cup of coffee /tea. Reusable refrigerant copper tubing is also good material. Its only a matter of innovation for people who explore the future.

Leave the metal from the drill hole intact It gives the JB WELD more surface area to hold onto JB WELD will cover up the sharp metal

You should soak the wicks in alcohol before twisting them up the tube. Seems like that would make it much easier. Also, you could use the end of a toothpick to seal the hole when not in use.

Thanks for sharing. I’m going to try with a wider jar and three aligned copper coils just enough to carry a pot. I want to use it as a mini stove. Wish you the Best! A lot of Blessings.

This is the same type of stove I used in a boyscouts 4 week adventure. It was a Philmont type of summer camp. We rode horses but we backpacked everywhere. They resupply the meals every week. Haven't seen these stoves since. Mine was probably from the 50s when I was using it in the 80s. It was copper and brass.

oh my god I used to use rubbing alcohol to heat my bedroom when I was super poor. I built all kinds of crazy ways to control and boost the radiant heat. best one i ever made I called the "fire flower," it was basically a perforated flower bulb shape with petals, made entirely from folded aluminum foil. The pedals would help hold and control the flames and the perforations in the bulb allowed the fumes to come out in a measured manner. It was SUPER effective, but of course had to be rebuilt every 2 weeks or so. This is amazing to me

I employed your idea but instead of using the "Kerr or Ball" tin plate lid, I used a piece of copper sheet and sweat soldered the copper coil burner to the copper plate lid. once cooled down, I made a thin gasket using high temp silicone (2,000 degree rated) used to seal cast iron stoves and BBQ'S. Turned out great. thanks for sharing your project. Kind regards! Eric Dee.

Brilliant idea! I actually suffer from mental health problems and you have got me all excited to try this project! So glad I happened upon your channel. As a big thank you I subscribed, too!! Thank you for making me feel good, I haven't felt too good in quite a while!! ☺️🤗❤️👍🔥

This reminds me of a project I did as a kid where I made a similar coil of copper and used a tea candle to power a little boat in water. The coil and candle kept a flow of water that propelled the boat. You mention that the drill bit is acting like a punch and leaving the metal burrs behind. With the issues you had drilling the lid... You actually should use a punch. The jobber will work fine as well but both require a hard enough backing material so that the pressure you apply to the cutting tool does not deform your lid. Also, start with a smaller drill bit.

This is really cool because you can use this as a standard alcohol burner for chemistry type experiments or even micro-biological work. Moreover, if you pre-cut the wick to the length of the copper tubing, and then run it through the tube before making your bends; it will eliminate some of your final steps in the production process. One of the other things that I like about this burner is that not only does it give off a good amount of heat but the flame is not as bright as an ordinary flame from a candle and therefore it gives you a tactical advantage when light discipline is important. Overall, it is a very useful tool. :-)

Ths is really neat. I have some 1/4" copper tubing and JB Weld in the garage so I am going to put them to good use. Like the comments about improving the design - adding a reverse cap so we can seal the jar when not in use and heating with a bottle cap. To that end, I plan to weld a small container of some sort under the coil so it can be filled with fuel and lit to heat up the coils when starting the unit since I doubt I will be carrying a torch with me. That is how we primed the burners of the old kerosene stoves we had back home.

I am really excited to make some of these, using your techniques, as well as some suggested by viewers.

Excellent! I’m a canner & have these 1/2 pint jars. Great idea, simple & efficient! Only down side is glass jar, easy to break but size of it makes easier to protect if packed properly.

You can also use frozen water in the tube also instead of sand.

Great job on the small portable stove! Will be nice to take along ice fishing during the winter!

The idea is perfect&simple as well! I used the part of FIRED OFF WATER SPIRAL HEATER - just cut of a part of it, remove the wire+sand from inside, and you have the copper tube already bent.

This is a very good idea of getting the fuel to the heated coil through a wick rather with the compressed air as we used to do with the old Primus! Rather than drilling the two holes with an exact drill, it would provide more support to the coil if one uses a smaller drill then with a tapered wooden screw, push the taper slowly in the hole till the extra material is burred/ bent over till the diameter is correct. The extra material left bent over in the hole will give better vertical support to the coil. If the coil is soldered or glued in there would be a better joint.

My first camping stove was a cheap POS based on this principle. It was made of some kind of brass-like metal, had detachable L-shaped pot supports like upside-down legs, and was designed for white gas. Gave it a brief test and it seemed OK. First trip out, it developed a case of thermal runaway, shooting 8-inch green (copper) flames out either side of the coil, right past my little camp pan. I thought it was going to kill us or burn the park down. Scary experience shutting it down too. Never used it again.

Neat trick! I have a multi-fuel stove that does a similar thing vaporizing fuel, just with a metered flow instead of a wick. It's cleanest with white gas, but will work with kero/deisel/jet, lamp oil, even most petroleum solvents (stay clear of fumes!), and alcohols. For yours, therefore, I imagine you're not limited to alcohol, and predict kerosene will work very well in there, albeit with a bit of soot. Please do be very careful if you try anything more volatile / lower flash point/ higher vapour pressure than alcohol - and gasoline is _right out!_ Mine is an old old MSR Whisperlight, if you're wondering. Very light, very reliable, fully user serviceable. I also love that the fuel is manually pressurized in its companion bottle at run time, stored unpressurized, and needs no consumable fuel bottles. For some fuels there's a wick needed for the pilot burn (your "prime") and for some emergency fuels like alcohol or some solvents, the fuel pump valve and component would need to be serviced afterwards, but burn it sure will.

They're all unique in their own build. But they're all functional! Awesome build I loved it!

Awesome device ! I’m for sure going to make one ! You could set it inside a # 10 can or metal coffee can to give you something to set a pan or pot on. It would need to be open on both ends and have air holes in the side! A step drill works extremely well on thin metal ! It won’t grab like a regular drill bit !

Sand tip is great, I would say drill it out while still in the vice it would make it easier, if you use copper fridge pipe you would get a thicker wall and it measures at 3/8 Imperial or 9mm Metric Great video

Excellent design and 2 which I have made both work great . Added a small amount of fiberglass house insulation inside the jar which helps to keep the fuel from "sloshing" around . Thank you once again Iridium 242 and have an excellent New Year !

JBW is good cars and engines get hot. I once repaired an oven and it was great. I used it 3 years before i moved from that apartment. Going strong when i left.

Just learned something new today. Thanks for sharing.

I live on a ranch with a few hundred fruit trees. We always have a huge amount of fruit loss to birds and insects like wasps, so I have decided to make burning ethanol from the discarded fruit. I could use a burner like this instead of spending money on propane. In fact, I would like to try to use a few to heat a small room with the inverted clay pot heater idea.

Now that's a good idea. It looks pretty simple and effective. The cost is also probably rather low. I think I could make one easily.

This was a great video! Using your directions with a couple modification, I built three stoves to use as decorative tabletop heaters by adding a small aluminum half-cylinder about 8" tall JB Welded to the backside of the jar lid with another jar lid capping off the top to serve as a reflector, and a mantle made of 5" tall steel mesh rolled and crimped to sit on top of the jar lid, inside the reflector. I JB welded a chili can lid to the top of the mantle as a cap. Once the copper loop is lit, the mantle heats up and glows red, becoming an IR heater which amplifies and concentrates the heat produced. I used the muffler repair version of JB Weld since it's supposed to be more thermally resistant, but that's probably not necessary at these temperatures.

I love this little stove. It looks like a great way to do some covert cooking in a SHTF situation!

great idea I have three in a triangle and rest my pan on top! ps I soldered mine.

Very neat build and very simple....thanks for sharing. Very well presented too,

I'm very into survival hacks I really like this idea !!!!!!

I bought a Henry Golden Boy about a year ago,and You guys captured My excitement and joy in your video! I LOVE this rifle...the "Evil Roy" is next on My list! Thanks😎

Similar alcohol burners had been produced commercially in Japan for school laboratory use and for mountaineering. I prefered to use my alcohol burner with three loops for mountaineering over gas/gasoline/paraffin oil burners because of reliability. Later imported Trangia burner expelled them from the market.

You can also use a strand from a cotton mop, they will stand up to the heat. Just don't use a synthetic mop strand as they melt and plug the tube.

This is my next DIY project for the weekend! Thanks for sharing this!👍

love the idea, love the concept, love how you build it, and most of the top... love the way you deliver it! it's sounds waaaaaay easy and fun! superb!

If you don't have sand you could put water in the tube and freeze it. This is used for bending brass instrument tubing.

That's so cool! I'm impressed and I don't mean that sarcastically either.

Great job I loved the simplicity and the depth of explanation I just watched my first video and subscribed

wow what an awesome tutorial! Thanks for the lesson, I really enjoyed it.

WOW THATS FRICKIN SMART THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING

Jb weld is awesome......we fixed broken drive shaft on m113 personel carrier with vicegrips and jb weld

Nice instructional video. I made one by filing the copper tube with water and freezing it. It also bends nice

That sand trick is beautiful, simple and cheap.

You do a super job explaining everything. About the wick, one thing that might work is to first measure a piece of thin wire to the same size as the coil. Take the piece that goes to the right coil, connect it to the wire you just measured, connect the other end to the other wick that will go on the other side of the coil, thread it thru the copper tube BEFORE making the coil. Have both wicks out of each end as you described THEN fill the tube with the sand, cap each end over the wick, and make the coil. The wire will stay in the pipe with the wicks attached from each end as you so eloquently described how to do. Might work.

Iridium 242 Dear are many good videos on how to make this stove. What makes your tutorial special is your fine personality, and giving the viewer confidence that he or she can make this stove, and they don"t have to be perfect with the details. If you are not a professional teacher, then i believe you would be an excellent mentor!! Thank you for a job well done. Bruce the swimmer New Rochelle N.Y.

Pretty awesome. Well done clear and concise words. Easy to follow directions. Thanks I will be making a few of these as well.

Awesome video mate. Thanks for such a wicked idea and project.

Thanks Dude.... Im gonna make it one for me, it will help me alot

Great design! 👍🏻😄 If you leave the metal pipe in the middle of your copper twist when you pinch it in the vice it'll come out more evenly. Para cord probably wouldn't work very well because it's made out of synthetic materials, you need something cotton, but you can buy round kerosene wicks at different thicknesses, I'm sure one would probably fit in there I have a really small kerosene lantern that has a round wick which looks to be about that exact same size as your copper tubing. The thing you said about the JB Weld being able to take extreme heat is accurate, I'm not sure exactly what the heat rating is but I used one to fix a part in my engine which was cracked and it's never come open.

A true craftsman! Way to go thinking outside of the box! 👍💯

Cool. If you don't have, can't find, or don't want to buy wicks, you can use cotton balls. Just unroll one and twist it into a fine thread. When it pulls the fuel up into the tube, it will expand to completely fill the tube.

very well done and something I have never made before or thought of before! A diagram would be very useful here at the opening of the video.

Neat stove bud but the tip about the sand AWSOMELY GENIUS!! Rock on! 👍👍👊

I loved this video thank you! You're really great at teaching. My husband and I are going to try to make one.

Thank you,I didn't know I could do this,and now I will.

Saw one of these in an antique mall with a sign saying "What is it?!! $3.00" No one knew. Thank you!!!!!

That's a great little stove! Thanks for the video.

I enjoyed your video. It's like going to a friends house to see what he is up to and coming away with plans to copy what he made. Well done.

I really like your happy disposition

I personally would love to just go into Home Depot or Lowe's and have a copper wire already cut and designed for me. This way if I do not want the extra material, it keeps it quick and simple for several different types of projects. Cool idea.

if you want to make larger ones, take a string tie it to the end of the wick. use a small keyboard vacuum and vacuum out one side. The string will feed through and you can pull the wick to the right position! it would be cool to see a double or triple loop... Great concept!!! thank you plan on making a few myself

Awesome, I’m headed to Walmart to start my project, Thanks for your video

Nice build, thank you. I notice that you have a tall yellow flame indicative of incomplete combustion; you would probably get a cleaner burn (blue flame) with a smaller hole on the tube.

thank you for your time and effort YAH-WEY

I like this, I'm going to have to build myself one

This is a cool thing to make and have around if you need to keep warm or cooking.im going to try it out myself if i get stuck somewhere out in the Snow in a Car over night. Thank you for your time in showing Us how to make this.

The Magpul decal did not go unnoticed!!! 😁😎😎

Really nice little stove.

This is perfect for hunting or fishing, instead of packing the stove around, or building a bigger fire. Coffee, finger warmer and whatnot.

I enjoyed the video and this would be perfect to be used in a tent stove but I would also like to be able to get this excited about making something like this. You are blessed with a great personality~!!

Even though 7yrs old AV... Still good to see beautiful engineering.. Thanks.

Very interesting and very simple. Thanks.

you just totally inspired a new project. awesome video and stove q. have you experimented with different tube sizes containers more loops holes etc?

Awesome project Thanks for sharing your videos with us!

I love ur idea of a stove, perfect survival stove Or for tail gate cooking.... Very good idea !!!

Im making this. Killer little heating/ cooking unit made from practically nothing. Thank you!!

for a longer life wick try Kevlar I use Kevlar wicks for fire spinning they hold the fuel better

You can also use compression fittings on the copper pipe instead of messing around with JB Weld.

Very well made informative video. I love how to make sure you're not putting anything unnecessary in the video. Appreciated! Thank you!

You don't need glue. Just solder it with tin-lead solder. This is easy to do, just stick the coil into the cap in place and heat it up on a gas stove or burner, adding solder to the place to be soldered.

"The important thing is getting a good seal." - every Netsilik Eskimo father to his son.

what a great project .. I think i might be trying one of those for sure .. thanks