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I just found a stash of 10 more empty cans. And by I, I mean my wife.. she found them So now I have 10 or so half built stoves, 10 more candidates, no time, and a wife that's giving me the eye. I can't just put these things into the recycling bin. What do I do??? Gah!

Ok, what is wrong with me? At this point I am sort of hoping that this is a support group

My least favorite part of bulding the eCHS is cutting the top opening. I got tired of the clumsy compass/circle cutter arrangement. I thought on it for a day and within about 5 minutes I put together a very stable and fully adjustable cutting jig. It makes short work of cutting perfect circles in whatever diameter I choose. Panavise, miter box, a dremel, and a few quick clamps. I started with a small ball rasp bit, and settled on the cutting wheel.

I'll be playing with aperature next. Today I built a cone. The pot stand and screen combo was clearly suffering in windy 40-45f conditions today. I was only hitting 140f on two cups of 65f water and 15ml fuel. With the cone in the same conditions I hit a boil 10 or 15 seconds before flame out. I'm getting there.....

sputtering was maybe the wrong term. Too much vapor pressure is more like it, pushing the flame further away from the jets. Opening the jets solved that with the tradeoff of a slightly rich burn (a little bit of orange here and there) ... perhaps now it is sputtering? I'll observe more closely. The Cuervo cans are a better fit than v8 cans. Maybe half the gap of what a v8 can produces. And from briefly looking in the store, the Cuervo cans are better than red bull cans. The fosters can is alumin…

Thanks! Re: hot after a burn I'm not too concerned either but I do worry about thermal expansion/contraction affecting the epoxy seal, as well as the heat degrading the epoxy itself. I find it very reassuring that we have the same pot and similar boil/burn times! Re: nesting pot stand, narrow diameter, instability --- I have to say, this configuration so far seems to be far more stable with this pot than a typical top mounted canister stove arrangement (pocket rocket and better in terms of typic…

Hello everyone, first post here. It's a long one Great thread going here. Thanks to all of the contributors and creators for taking a huge amount of the guesswork out of stove building -- Extremely helpful to a novice like me! I'd like to hear some feedback and advice on how to do better with my next build. My first ever alcohol stove build/attempt: eCHS 41mm aperature, 35mm tall, 18 creases, 6mm bottom tabs cut with scissors (no gap), 7x 0.7mm jets, 53mm Jose Cuervo can I'm using yellow Heet ($…