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How to Make a Hobo Stove in 3 Minutes -

This hobo stove weighs only 1 ounce, has no moving parts, boils in under 5 minutes and the fuel is cheap. You...

How to Make a Hobo Stove in 3 Minutes -

This hobo stove weighs only 1 ounce, has no moving parts, boils in under 5 minutes and the fuel is cheap. You can make it yourself in just a few minutes and it will outlast most conventional stoves.

Added: 1/15/09

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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seriously, who's the song by?

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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Love the music! Who is performing it?

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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Four minutes for a pint of water. Compare that to stoves using other fuels. Typical is a quart in about a minute, and they are much safer and more convenient than this one.

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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Great music on this video. The stove featured here is a low-pressure side-burning style alcohol stove. It's one of the more simple alcohol stoves to build. Keep in mind there are many other more efficient easy-to-build styles of alcohol stoves. It is NOT a "hobo" stove, which burns wood. This stove is pressurized when the pot is placed on it and can be an efficient little stove with some experimentation to the placement and number of holes. It will not only burn denatured alcohol found in hardware stores but also fuel line antifreeze aka "Heet" found in most gas stations(methyl or ethyl alcohol). Rubbing alchohol (Isopropyl) will also burn, but poorly due to water content. For your safety and the safety of others-- keep in mind, as noted in the other comments, that alcohol burns cleanly and the flame can be difficult to see. Use caution with spills.

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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this is not called a hobo stove. this is an alcohol stove. hobo stoves are wood stoves

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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it's still your responsibility to be responsible. assuming that, it's perfectly safe. if you don't feel like you can safely refrain from kicking the flaming can, please disregard this tutorial and search "birth control methods".

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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I just seems like it could be dangerous is the alcohol from can with holes in it spills.

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By: Guest More than a year ago

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This is brilliant, i definitely plan to use it :)

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How to Make a Hobo Stove in 3 Minutes

Use a 20 oz bottle cap and a vitamin water cap to make two lines on your can as shown. Use a 1/4” hole to make 15–17 holes about a 1/2” apart along the bottom line on the can. Once you have the bottom done, punch another 25–28 holes along the top line of the can, approximately a ¼” apart. That’s it! Simplicity at it’s best. Now, let’s give it a try. Denatured alcohol from your local hardware store. Fill the stove to the bottom holes. Use a match or a flint strike to start the stove. Careful not to spill the alcohol. Once lit the stove will need 30–50 second to prime. After this time place the pot on top. Two cups of water. Now, we wait and wait after about four minutes… tea time. Hobo Stove. Smallwordtreks.net. The world is smaller than you think.

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Use a 20 oz bottle cap and a vitamin water cap to make two lines on your can as shown. Use a 1/4” hole to make 15–17 holes about a 1/2” apart along the bottom line on the can.

Once you have the bottom done, punch another 25–28 holes along the top line of the can, approximately a ¼” apart. That’s it! Simplicity at it’s best. Now, let’s give it a try.

Denatured alcohol from your local hardware store. Fill the stove to the bottom holes. Use a match or a flint strike to start the stove. Careful not to spill the alcohol. Once lit the stove will need 30–50 second to prime. After this time place the pot on top.

Two cups of water. Now, we wait and wait after about four minutes… tea time.

Hobo Stove. Smallwordtreks.net. The world is smaller than you think.

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