Aluminum bottle alcohol stove
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Ryan
Jun 11, 2012, 2:40:24 PM6/11/12
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This is kinda directed towards brad.
I've spent too much time on youtube lately, and i came across this video of of a guy making an alcohol camp stove out of an aluminum bud light bottle. I've always wanted to learn how to use a lathe and I was wondering if Brad would help me build one of these and teach me a little machining along the way.
Also, someone will have to drink the beer. Volunteers?
Brad Collette
Jun 11, 2012, 3:13:28 PM6/11/12
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Looks interesting. He's got some jigs and fixtures made but I can't find any details on those. Find more information on this and we can give it a shot. Might need Dan to back me up though. My machining skillz lack any real world expertise.
Dan Goldstein
Jun 13, 2012, 9:44:24 AM6/13/12
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Hey Ryan,
Cool video. Cyrille made a stove like this out of a tin can a while back. He got it to work pretty well. If you bring one of those aluminum bottles by (or a couple just in case..) sometime I would be glad to cut it with you. The cuts are easy. He has mandril made to roll the top edge nicely. I am not sure exactly how to make that, but I am sure we can figure it out. We could also do it by putting it in the lathe and using wood or brass to roll it over. The same guy has a really nice video on his site showing how he makes an aluminum pot in the lathe using metal forming techniques. I have done this a little many years ago. Would be fun to try again some time. (http://youtu.be/o9ACWtdYiYc)
Might figure it out with a couple of us, then do a demo at a future meeting?
Dan G.
PS. I will go by the Surplus Auction this morning.--
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Cool video. Cyrille made a stove like this out of a tin can a while back. He got it to work pretty well. If you bring one of those aluminum bottles by (or a couple just in case..) sometime I would be glad to cut it with you. The cuts are easy. He has mandril made to roll the top edge nicely. I am not sure exactly how to make that, but I am sure we can figure it out. We could also do it by putting it in the lathe and using wood or brass to roll it over. The same guy has a really nice video on his site showing how he makes an aluminum pot in the lathe using metal forming techniques. I have done this a little many years ago. Would be fun to try again some time. (http://youtu.be/o9ACWtdYiYc)
Might figure it out with a couple of us, then do a demo at a future meeting?
Dan G.
PS. I will go by the Surplus Auction this morning.
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you.
But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of the police forces and the fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory...
Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and you pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
- Elizabeth Warren (Sept. 2011)
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