 As promised, Jon has put up my article on making a basic, Trangia-style burner. Hope it's useful to stovies, old and new.
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 Thanks for the efforts you have made in putting this article together, CP. Really useful. Great stuff!
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 fantastic stuff capt. well done and thanks very much for taking the time to do it.
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Thanks very much for that, so well-explained even I could follow it . I'll have a go in the next couple of weeks
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Something to play with over the weekend? Finished stoves on my desk, Monday morning...
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Actually, CP..... great article as it seemed simple enough to me and sort of thing one could have loads of fun with Gold DoE type groups...?
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> sort of thing one could have loads of fun with Gold DoE type groups...? Yes; part of the inspiration behind this article was that a mate of mine has a Scout troop, and I was thinking of offering to run an evening where his Scouts made burners, so I was trying to perfect a simple assembly method that also minimised the risks of sharp, pointy things. I'd have to explain the 'opposing muscle tension' thing, but that's quite easy; just grab their hand, and tell them to try to stop me moving their arm about. I even thought about doing a Clone evening, too, so they could make themselves an entire lightweight cook set (buying a £5 Trangia pan).
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.jpg) Splendid stuff CP. I particularly like the simplicity of the full-can-as-stretcher, wish I'd thought of that. Only downside is that I now have no excuse to use to go out and buy a lathe on which to recover skills last used in 1981, to turn a tapered mandrel-cum-press-tool. <sighs> Another gear fantasy bites the dust. But really and truly, what a tonic it is when the aesthetic of good DIY low-tech asserts itself against the general rampant consumerist approach that invades our lives.
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I even thought about doing a Clone evening, too, so they could make themselves an entire lightweight cook set (buying a £5 Trangia pan). Just explain your thoughts on that one for me.....I am more than intrigued
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Well done CP!! You've got me out in the shed making stoves again! My daughter managed to swap my favourite Red Bull burner for an airbed last week, using your instructions, I've just started palying about with burner sizes to make the perfect espresso
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 Excellent CP, Thats the definitive open jet burner instructions I reckon
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 Fantastic, outstanding! Just the two things we have come to regularly expect and treasure in cp and his diy projects! The man's a legend!
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.jpg) I think the photography deserves ten out of ten. Even a person who could,nt read it< foreigner> could follow these picture instructions. Thanks for your time and effort CP.
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 Cracking job captain!!!! I'll have to have a stab at making one of these. I'll just finish off this can of Guinness.......
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 Brilliant article. Congratulations on passing on your expertise in a way everyone could follow easily, and great photos. I'll probably be up all night now after buying so many red bulls and coke but at least I'll have something to do 
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Keep drinking RN, You need two empty cans... ...at least! 
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 Great description CP. This open burner design is my favourite because when you use it you don't have to muck about balancing the cook pot on top of a tiny stove or waiting for the stove to 'blossom' before you can let go of the pot. Just light the stove then go and do something else til the water boils.
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.jpg) This is incredible to me, I've never seen one of these in the flesh but have followed the make your own thread on and off with a slightly detached interest. This article with can to cooker instructions and even I can follow (but thanks for the pictures) means I might just have a go. Um, just for CP, none of the rest of you need read this bit, looks over shoulder to ensure no eavesdroppers, do you need something to hold the pot above the cooker or does it sit right on the cooker - apologoes if you covered this in the instructions - I have missed it at the first reading if you did. Right, the rest of you can look again, great CP, thanks!
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Morrisons do their own energy drink at 27p a can. At that price you can pour it away, rather than drinking the filthy stuff!
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Sorry for snooping Atlas, but CP described the version where the pot sits directly on the stove as a "sideburner" ( Paragraph 38). In my opinion this is a poor alternative because it loses the advantages I described just above your post.
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