So, what is the smallest liquid fueled pressure stove (including tank and all) made lo these last 120 years? Idle curiosity is my only motive. I've not seen anything smaller than an 8R that I can recall, beyond the odd homemade thingy. What's out there? J
Smallest packed, or smallest in operation? I'd venture a toss-up amongst some of the coil burners. Stesco, Borde, Taykit, ...
Either way.... I'm not picky. My homemade coil burner's the smallest working pressure stove I've seen (stands 5" tall, 300g fuelled), but wondered if anything similarly sized has been made in the past. The tiny ones are fun for dayhikes, where coffee and some instant noodles are welcome treats... J
Neat! Here you go - make 100 of these and you can enter the Guinness book for the smallest production stove. I'm sure they'll bring a nice price on eBay, too. Yonadav BTW, are the coils soldered or sil-brazed to the tank?
Hi Jason, that's a cute small coil burner you have made, and it burns well with a nice blue flame. You have given the size of the stove, which is very small. Out of interest, what does it weigh, including legs?
Exellent little stove!! Check out the Govenor Lamb Petrol Lamb or Lamb Parrafin These are on my wish list!!!!!!! I do lots of day hikes with the kids both out in the woods and to the beach. Nothing beats a cup,of fresh espresso! Do you have plans for your home made coil burner? You could post it to instrauctables! or here I guess! /Lars
The whole stove, filled with 28ml of Coleman fuel, heat shield and windscreen (not shown) weighs 315g. It's heavy since it's made from copper plumbing caps, much heavier than needed. It could be built at maybe half the weight with some more careful parts sourcing. It burns for about 10 minutes, and boils 2 cups of water in 5. The burner itself (tank, filler, coils) is assembled with lead free silver bearing plumbing solder, melting at about 410F. The leg brackets are soldered with standard 60/40 solder, melting at a rather lower temp. The idea being, should the stove grossly overheat, the legs falling off gives a warning, LOL. I've "mapped" the heat of it in full flow, and found that the burner riser tubes are hot enough to melt 60/40 solder down to about 1" above the font. Seems a decent margin. Believe it or not, in the dozen years I've had this stove, it's consumed a gallon or two of coleman fuel. In use, if I overheat it (by trying to boil a second mug of 1.5 cups of water on a single run), it tends to blow itself out rather than fail spectacularly. J
Oh, man! I'd love to find one of those! Beauties! I can share building instructions for my coil burner (which I dubbed Pocket Rocket before finding that MSR already had one....) with anyone interested. I built it in my appt. kitchen before I owned a house. Only tools were dremel, drill, small torch and some modest hand tools. Other than drilling the jet and bending the coil, it's all pretty easy. I've lately been considering making a lighter weight brass version with hard soldered construction, but haven't managed to be so motivated yet. J
I remembered posting about this little coilburner several years back... Here's a link to the post, which includes some information on its construction: https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/6098 Make it at your own risk! You could blow something up or burn something down! LOL. J
Now see the point of your first post. Hope you have satisfied "your idle curiousity" Nice little Frankie. Well done - Steve.
I'm pretty transparent, no? LOL. Actually, I found myself wondering recently how small such a burner could be made. It'd be neat to make it with 1" or 3/4" pipe caps for the font, rather than the 1.5" ones I did use. I've always been fascenated by miniature examples of any product... they seem to have such personality. Like a COX model airplane engine, so much personality in 3 moving parts.... J
Hi Jason I KNEW I had seen your stove before but could not figure out where. Thanks for the weight I asked for and also some idea of how you made it. You say that you had thought of making another but make it lighter. That would be great, but who cares?!! - the one you made is fantastic!
Hi Jason, Would be interesting to see if you can make a smaller Frankie! Good luck if you decide to try. There is a guy over on CPL who makes miniature jet engines! so everything is possible. Steve.
Hi, All, The Enders Baby is, indeed, a very small pressure stove, and a fine one, too, if care in maintenance is taken. Another very small burner is the Coleman 527 medical sterilizer stove. Whilst not a commonly found stove, it was a production model during it's lifetime. I have one, someplace, and have long given thought to making a new burner plate for it. BernieDawg actually made me a tiny silent cap for it, years ago, though I've never tried it, as of yet! Probably should go find it, and give 'er a go, "just because"! Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
Why, oh, why do all these little stoves have to look so damned cute??? LOL, ain't they fascenating indeed. J
