Ceramic wick candles. Featuring stable wicks, heat feedback to keep wax molten and perpetual ceramic wicks. Left; Square zirconia wick that sits in a tea candle dish that sits on an insulator. This wick stores a considerable amount of wax within it and can be removed to start another candle, start a fire or provide an ignition source for a smouldering tent stove. Center; Fixed zirconia wick in a food can that provides a large wax reserve and can be conveniently sealed with a plastic lid during backpacking. Right; Large glass fibre wick, in part of the aluminium tube from a thick marker pen.

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DIY candle This post is about making a DIY candle wick for alpine backpacking camping. It is a modified tea candle. The ceramic fibre wick has a metal-sheathed that provides; stability, long life and heat-transference that helps it work effectively under cold alpine conditions. Introduction to DIY backpacking candle wickRead 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 →

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Ultralight blower stove uses range from ultralight backpacking to base camping with stove weights from 100-500g. This page is a guide to help you select the best stove for your purposes. Introduction For backpackers, there is great cooking power in the lightest of my stoves, but for just a littleRead More →

Large C-Ring Stove with single cooking position. The Blower air tube has a bend in it that allows the blower and power supply to be angled back and away from the flame.

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Ultralight blower stove- Large/Single pot roll up stove that lives in its cooking pot/s The Large/Single- ultralight blower stove rolls up to fit in its own large pot for backpacking. It will cook one large pot at a time. However, with a bit of rock trickery, it can also heatRead 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 →

Student Stove with two large cut outs in the burner wall.

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A cheap ultralight blower stove The ‘Student’ ultralight blower stove is designed to be light, cheap and simple and is made from a 425g tuna tin, to match the skimpy budget of a student. If used with care it will have a short but useful life. Students can afford tunaRead More →

Ultralight 'Bell Tent' a roomy shelter with the comfort of central heating with an ultralight wood stove.

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This DIY silnylon bell tent can be pitched high for luxury comfort or low for strong wind survival.Read 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 →