Beautifully made alcohol stove

This is a great video because it’s obvious this stove was made by a scale modeler, based on the tools he has. Those are specialty pliers for bending wire. I lust after then at Micro-Mark. I’m also impressed by the compass cutter he’s using. I think it’s a trammel fitted with a blade. And it’s good to know they use JB Weld in Japan.

I’ve always loved alcohol stoves made from soda cans and I love the way this modeler thinned the inner wall of the bottom piece to allow the piece with the burner jets to slide inside without crimping. And I don’t know that polishing the stove was necessary, but it was sure pretty. The silicon tubing to make the pot support non-skid was also very clever.

Notice also he made a jig to make the clamps, another sign of a scale modeler.

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Jennifer Petkus divides her time between writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, creating websites for the dead, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper as a cop reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She has done little since. Her husband is the night editor at The Denver Post. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live. She is the author of, Good Cop, Dead Cop: A Novel about the AfterNet. She’s writing the sequel, The Background Noise of Souls, and another AfterNet related story, Jane Austen’s Book Tour.

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