Miniature Dome Stove easy entry cone for flue pipe fitted into the elbow.

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Introduction I use micro spot welds to make ultralight equipment for ultralight backpacking adventure equipment. The technique enables me to fabricate items out of flimsy paper-thin titanium and stainless steel foil. For reference here is a professional description of spot welding/ With bending, folding and curving the foil can makeRead More →

DIY alcohol storage bottle with substitute 'filler cap' with tube. It makes filling with small charges of ethanol efficient, quick and clean.

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Spill free alcohol fuel bottle This free fuel bottle makes it easy to pour small quantities of alcohol cleanly and safely without waste. It is good when using the smallest stoves such as whisky top burners. A wide range of compatible bottle sizes makes the backpacking load very efficient. ARead More →

Anvils, rubber pads and rolling rods for forming curves in titanium and stainless steel foils. From left to right: narrow steel anvil with narrow and thin sealed cell foam rubber pad, wide wooden anvil with wide and thin pad and wide and thick foam pad. Across the pads are a long and short hard steel rollers.

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This post is about hand rolling of circles, rings, tubes, pipes, curves, tapers and cones in titanium and stainless steel hardened alloy foils and thin sheet. Introduction Small sheet metal rollers are expensive and bulky and have such a short rolling mouth width. They use 3 geared rollers that rotateRead More →