Homemade Denatured Alcohol Stove.

Keep experimenting, I'm still working on building a mini stove myself!

yo i tried it for the fun of it and i cooked a chicken strip tasted oh but good enough for survival

Your concept would work OK, but you probably already figured out that your nylon rope wick was a bad idea. Probably melted on the first burn. And the cotton thread burns away. Get a handful of fiberglass insulation, use it to stuff the box, put a few slots in the tape cover to expose the fiberglass wick, and you'll do a lot better. You can get small amounts of fiberglass in the HW store as pipe wrap.

Im glad you did that outside.

You have some good ideas. Sometimes putting several ideas into a single project at once can become unsafe. Take your time with each idea, and experiment with them separately before putting them together.

Stove experiments often explode. Please be careful.

Bill

ya bud...sorry! not exactly the safest stove..i'd rather build a small twig fire. that wick is all wrong & with that much fuel on it that nylon rope should be nice & melted & hard when it cools & shouldn't blow out!! Try goin with a smaller wick. that might be useful if you were trying to warm yourself up in 30 degree weather. keep tryin

That is one of the dumpiest stoves i ever seen. also a wick is a wick no need to put any alcohol on it.You be better off just put some sand in it then alcohol much safer.If you like to see some safe stoves and are easy to make check out some of mine

Good luck with that one, you may have gone way over the top. Just add Acetone next time and you'r make a great BOMB. Just Kidding right!