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 →

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..

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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 →

Flaming pudding

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Ski Chalet plum pudding I make this plum pudding (from real plums) to share with my telemark ski friends each winter. One of our regular telemark ski friends is a Celiac, so this recipe is gluten-free. The fruit is homegrown Satsuma plums. They ripen in great abundance and are driedRead 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.

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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 →

Roll up flue pipe that has been pre-shaped using segmented curve rolling prior to forming the flue pipe shape for the first time. This helps to avoid damaging crinkles and makes the pipe easy to form in the future after heat treating with an alcohol flame lance.

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Roll up flue pipe hand curving This post is about the segmented rolling of curves into long pieces of titanium or stainless steel foil for making backpacking stove flue pipes. Note: This is just one little part of a 12 part series on improved stove pipe rolling. You may wish toRead More →

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Turbo mayonnaise This is a simple old fashioned full bodied mayonnaise that beats most commercial products for full background flavour. I add some extra turbo flavours to turbocharge it. Introduction You probably know children that never think that Dad can make anything that is better than the junk that youRead 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 →