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.

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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 dark 0.

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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.

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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 →

Assembled ultralight tent stove setup on a bush pole.

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Ultralight Tent Stove- Part 4 Getting the Best out of the stove This post is the last in a four-part series on my efforts to design a truly ultralight tent stove. My aim was to efficiently and cleanly provide cooking and warmth from a small number of bush sticks toRead More →

Blower stove with blowback protection for use when the stove is being used with periodically pulsed voltage to save battery power while cooking. Blower assembly with; push button on/off switch, improved slide shutter covering air intake and long air tube and elbow that is cradled in the vented conical air input port. The fan switch is off, the fan air intake is closed and the wind blown smoke and hot gas blowback is vented harmlessly as a small flame over the vent instead of blowing back through the blower assembly and damaging the plastic fan body.

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Introduction The ultralight blower stove has excessive power for most cooking needs because it has been geared to burning damp Gippsland sticks. I discuss various practical ways to reduce the fans air output by using choking, lower voltages and fan pulsing. This is in order to have; an option forRead More →

Ultralight tent stove on a bush pole above the snow.

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Ultralight Tent Stove-for Alpine Camping Part 3 Safe and effective use This post is the third in a four-part series on my efforts to design a truly ultralight tent stove. My aim was to efficiently and cleanly provide cooking and warmth from a small number of bush sticks to enhanceRead More →

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Blower stove instructions- parts, assembly, starting and running This is my blower stove instructions for assembly, starting, running and idling. Introduction For all my blower Stoves of different shapes and sizes can be easily started by a simple but systematic starting procedure to get the stove burning quickly. Getting theRead More →