A custom made elbow to mount a flue pipe on a Miniature Dome Stove. The elbow is built from a cone so that the narrow male end fits tightly within the fire dome. The other wider female end receives the flue pipe within it. This ensures that any creosote from the flue pipe will not leak out and make smoke in the tent.

This post describes some details on the fittings that I used to make my Miniature Dome Stove and other similar related stoves. Background A keen follower Steve who has great blogs on theultralighthiker has suggested that I provide more details on aspects of my Miniature Dome Tent Stove fittings thatRead More →

Dome Stove fuel stick lifter fully up position.

This post describes an improved large fuel port and a fuel stick lifter to make the combustion hotter and make fuelling easier in Miniature Dome Stove. Background to the Miniature Dome Stove improvements In my previous post on the Miniature Dome Stove, I discussed the possibility of adding a largerRead More →

Dome stove dark 0.

The following post describes the development and testing of a simple lightweight and compact stick burning Miniature Dome Stove. It packs within a cooking pot/s and provides for tent heating/cooking, outdoor cooking as a blower stove and backup alcohol cooking. Its simplicity, effectiveness, ease of operation, universality and safety willRead More →

Pudding bowl tent stove night.

This post is about an experimental micro tent stove that is made from a stainless steel pudding bowl. It is tiny, very simple, clean-burning and easy to keep fuelled with bush sticks. It produces steady intense radiant heat for a small tent and can boil water in a 700ml mug.Read More →

Flue pipe compression ring for stabilisation of the bottom end of roll-up flue pipes. The ring has an additional snail-tail that can be interlocked with the overlapping flue pipe seam to prevent it from falling out once the outer flue pipe holding ring is tightened around them..

Introduction Roll up flue pipes or stove pipes are often used with backpacking tent stoves. The bottom end of the pipe needs to fit closely into a round hole in the stovetop. At the same time, there needs to be some device to stop the flue pipe falling into theRead More →

Conical connector with fuel stick tube connected. The fuel stick tube can be tilted to the left to provide safety clearance from the hot flue pipe while adding fuel sticks.

This post describes conical connectors that can be easily inserted into tent stoves and then be used to conveniently connect to flue pipes or other tubes. Introduction Most tent stoves require a close-fitting of the flue pipe into the stove body to achieve the best performance. In addition, my tentRead More →