Build Your Own Copper Coil Alcohol Burner Stove!

today I'm going to show you how to make your very own copper coil alcohol jet stove hey guys welcome back first I want to thank you for joining me today and second I want to show you this new kinda fun little side project I've been making these are copper coil alcohol jet stoves if you notice it's just an irregular short little canning jar and these canning jars you can pick up at Walmart they come in this big huge case here let's not get that too much close to the fire I've already made a couple of these for friends and I'm going to make one here to show you guys just how easy it is to make and how efficient they are um I did a quick alcohol burn test with this one I'm sorry alcohol burn test water boil test with this one and I stuck it in my hobo stove and I boiled two quarts to pints of water in about eight minutes so that's pretty darn good for just a little tiny alcohol stove so we're going to get to the construction on this I'm going to show you how to put it together and I'll be right back we'll start building it alright so first I'm going to show you what you need for this and a lot of this stuff is what I use you can use different methods if you want different tools but this is what I found works best first you need some copper tubing now those of you more familiar with copper tubing and I can figure out what size this is I bought this roll and it was probably twice this size at Home Depot for around eight bucks and change i already pre-cut a piece because it's easier for me to pre-cut a length and there's no particular length i just pre-cut a piece and i'm going to wrap it now you're going to need something to wrap it around now use this whole piece of piping now just stick it in a vise wrap it around that you're going to need some jb weld because you want to seal up your seals inside and outside a couple of drill bits this is for the holes for your tubes and that's for your little tiny hole there that's the only place you're going to be drilling a hole you're going to need some kind of wick material I have to run inside and get it I forgot when I was setting up this shot but I do have it's basically just candle wick not candle it's a regular wicks from a lantern and I just cut them in half you can see them in there anything will do you might even be able to get a paracord or something it's not anything that's going to burn it's going to wick and suck up the fumes into the tube and then the gas comes out here shoots up here and that holds the flame in that's where the flame lights so that's about it it's a pretty simple project I also have some sand back here actually mines aluminum oxide from my sandblasting cabinet you're going to want to fill this tube with sand dirt anything just make sure it's full before you wrap it around here so you get a nice smooth you notice how smooth that is there's no kinks in it the sand will keep everything intact as you wrap it around and it won't kink up and go flat on you so we're going to come right back we're going to fill this up with sand and I'm gonna go get that wick and I'm going to show you how I do it alright I threw down this ratty old towel because I hate cleaning up aluminum oxide from everywhere but here's how I do it now you can use anything you want the ends of these paper a piece of wood whatever I'm just using the caps that came with the roll to begin with you want to cap it off at both ends now I'm just using this method this is a thing I got from the dollars to our baster I just suck it up in there get it in there match it up with the end of the tube and just let it drop in nice and easy it just goes right down in there without a problem you want to fill that all the way up okay right to the top when it's over filling and then you want to cap it once that's done you're ready for bending so I'm going to fill this up and we'll come back over and I'll show you over on my vise and we'll bend it right I got my tube all filled up here copper tube filled up with that sand now replace it about here because remember we're going to put a loop in this you don't want to do it dead in the center because then you'll be uneven we're going to put a loop in this you want to put it here with a little bit longer on this side and begin your bend it doesn't have to be perfect don't worry if it doesn't look right you're doing it right okay you're going to loop it around there loop it around loop around and there you go now what's kind of funky doesn't it it doesn't look anything like what's in my stand well that's because you want to take it in here flatten the sides together so you don't want to empty the sand yet and I'll show you how to do that in a minute we're going to take that out and I'm going to come around this side of the ice and open it back up alright almost there you're just going to slowly crush it in keeping your sides as straight as possible moving it up a little crushing this part in you want a nice tight little circle there let me back up a little there we go now a little bend there okay now we're getting a lot closer aren't we I mean that looks a whole lot like that so once that's done you're going to empty out your sand and something I like to do I like to run water through it now I'm obviously not going to do that on camera because I don't have running water out here I'd go to my kitchen to do it but you want to make sure you get everything out of there because you're relying on this all being open air for the gases to build up and burn in there so I'll be right back once I dump all this stuff out and show you what it looks like after them alright so we're back on the bench here I got all the stuff out of this if you've noticed there's a little tiny black dot there that's about where I'm going to drill my vent hole I'm going to use the tiniest little drill bit I have you want to start small because you can always make it bigger if it doesn't work and you want to go bigger from there so we're going to start drilling right here this is slow or as slow as I can get this to go you want to make sure you don't put too much pressure because you don't want to drill all the way through not through yet but you see we're starting to get a little a little hole there so I'm going to drill that hole and we're going to come back and I'm going to give you the dimensions to cut off for here and how to stick it into your uh oyster I got my hole drilled in there I literally shut off the camera and tapped it one more time and it went straight through I figured it was going to take too long for the camera anyway here's your here's your glass jar alright that's your little canning jar these are short I don't what they call them jam jars I showed you where they come from you can get them at Walmart but of course you see that's going to be way too long you want somewhere like right about three-quarters of the way down on there you can see where the whip begins and the the thing adds and again this isn't an exact science I'm just going to take this up against here I'm going to figure my my stove is going to be about that high off the top and I'm just going to make a mark right there and right there doesn't even matter if they're even I mean again you do not have to be perfect with this as long as you get a good hole there and your Bend is nice and neat and your tube is clear all the way through so we're going to cut it off about that much on each one we're going to come back and then we're going to do our top holes for this alright so we got the bottom pieces off I used this rat tail file here to get in there and just make sure that nothing was left over and I gave it a couple of swipes on the end to make it nice and even yeah you just don't want to cut yourself while you're messing around with the way it's really not a requirement now we're going to measure where the holes are and again this is pretty as long as you get it close I mean you can always seal it up with j-b weld generally what I've been doing and I go we built two of these so far is I just kind of lift it up and make my mark and go back of course it's working but you probably can't see it on the camera there there we go and I move that right about there my about right yeah so I'm going to drill two holes where my little black marks are and I'm going to use this as a template as a drill holder yeah I'm going to use the same size drill approximately as the piping so we're you're going to get a decent hole there it's going to be about the same size you're still going to want to seal it up with j-b weld and JB will will hold that was my biggest question like that stuff's gonna melt off the first time it gets hot that's burned gosh I've burned this now for two days straight home lobster who's so excited about building it and it's still holding strong all right let me drill the holes now we're going to come back we're going to put it in we're going to jb weld it up and then we're gonna insert the wick alrighty got my holes as you can see the back there a little the drill on this stuff almost acts as if it's a hole punch so what I do to negate that bump there is kind of just tap down flatten it out now I already and I see a little spot here I've already picked off some of the extra metal that's kind of flaking away on the other side tap it down nice and neat let's do a quick test fit boy I hope this works because I'm on camera yeah see that's right in there and that's lined up right with that and if you do screw up don't worry about it you can always take a little round file and finish it up so those holes are perfect I do have to open them up a little bit but they're perfect so we're going to come in we're going to put that in there and then we're going to dig out the jb weld weld it up and we're going to cut the wick and I'll show you how to put the wicked alright we've got it in there almost perfectly not a lot of air gap in between where the coil pipe goes now if you've never used jb weld before um this is how you do it i understand some of you may be new to doing this stuff it's just one tube equal amounts the other tube put them together mix it up that's that simple try and not mix up too much but don't be stingy with it because you want to seal this up really well because that's what's relying on its relying on the pressure and if there's some way that the pressure can escape from there it's not going to seal up as well now the bottom I just glop it right on there I don't try to make it neat on the bottom because no one's going to really see that but at the top I'll get q-tips out and try to make it as neat as possible so we're going to do this up we're going to finish it up off the pipe because that looks ugly and I will come back and show you the finished product alright we got it all sealed up made it as neat as possible it's all sealed up good under there really the important thing is getting a good seal if it's not perfect yeah it's alright you know this one wasn't perfect either and it's still working so I'm pretty pleased with it so far now this is the quick setting jb weld so it's going to take anywhere from six to twelve minutes to set up straighten that up and i'm going to clean up my mess here and we're going to come back when it's all set up and continue from there all right cleaned up my mess here's my wick now this is an average I don't know I bought these at Walmart years ago for one of my lanterns it's an average size but it doesn't really matter what I'm going to do is cut it right down the red line kind of cut it in half because if I were to try to stuff that whole thing up that tiny little tube we would be getting nowhere fast so just cut it down the middle if it gets some strands that's actually good it will actually wick the stuff up into the tubes better and I'm going to cut two equal pieces try to stay on that red line this way when I stick one inside the tube I'll know about how far it's gone by comparing it to the other now when you put these in you want to get them to about up to here okay and that may seem really hard but once this dries up it's actually really simple you just put it in there and twist you gave it a little start you just twist and it'll twist its way up to about there so when that's finally all dry we're going to put those wicks in and we will move on from there and then I'll give you a little demonstration once it's ready to go all right so I got one up in there to start with got a little dental tool here that's helping me kinda push it in there a little it's actually almost to the right height and these will shred up a little bit as you put them in that's fine depending on the wick you're using remember I'm only going by the one wick that I had happened to have a Ryan around I don't know if yours will do the same now here's what I was mentioning before this is what you want this is why it's neat save one out I can measure it up along here and see I'm about to the right distance there's a bottom about up to here now of course it's a little compressed it's probably up to about there so we're going to put it a little further and we're going to cut off the bottom and kind of spread it out I'm going to do the other side and when that's all done we'll come back and we'll do a burn test all right I got them up in there far enough I've trimmed off bottoms a little bit kind of frayed them out a little we're going to give this its first burn test now I like to use a one of these propane torches to start it with the first time you really don't have to you can prime it just by pouring a little alcohol all over everything and I'm still going to do that a little bit too the first time you light it it's going to sputter it's going to shoot like crazy at least my other two did so I'm going to take a little rubbing alcohol just kind of wipe it around wipe it on everything just to get it heat it up you want to heat up the coil so that everything up in there gets a nice gas going now if this takes too long to prime I'll prime it and then come back and shake it up a little bit too and it will take a long time the first time to light it now it's got something there yeah something there there we go you have a flame yet yeah we do turn off the light let's take a look there you go you can hear it roaring that is its first burn I'm gonna let it burn like that for about five minutes four minutes whatever you know just to kind of get it burned in and there you go so oops I hope you enjoyed the video today it's a real simple copper to copper coil stove I mean I've made three of them so far they've all worked perfectly that's probably going to need to be relit so I blow it out it's probably gonna need to be relit and primed a few more times and then you guys you can see none of them are the same they're all kind of twisted different whatever but the concept is the same so anyway thanks for joining me today if you have any questions leave them in the comment section 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Length: 16min 24sec (984 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 08 2016