[Stoves] Tinsmith business models
Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
crispinpigott at outlook.com
Tue Aug 26 16:19:36 CDT 2014
Dear Teddy
Watch man's stoves: when I saw them I thought they were models/toys for displaying on a desk, not that they were real. I have a picture somewhere but it will take time to find. I am pretty sure they didn't have a liner. The user carries a little bag of charcoal chips and the stove to work each night.
As for the iterations, no catalogue seen but it would be pretty boring. All the IKJ's suffer from the same design issues: no secondary air, no flame space, susceptible to crosswinds, air holes too big, flat bottom to the combustion chamber, power control by choking and ceramic thermal expansion problems. Quite a list.
Dear James et al.
You may find this of interest - it is a short film that has many excellent
scenes and modern footage from Shauri moyo/Kamakunji in Nairobi - an East
African tinsmithing jua-kali paradise of sorts. Others of you may also
enjoy it as well -
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/video/2014/apr/28/sundance-film-festival-shorts-am-i-going-too-fast-video
Crispin - this is an interesting point for me, do those Senegalese
mini-stoves have a ceramic liner? Also do you know roughly how many other
Kenya Ceramic Jiko varieties have been made and still being marketed in
Africa over the last 20 years - in fact does anyone know of a KCJ
list/catalog? How would one go about collecting this information do you
think?
Also about those being the smallest stoves, how about this shrimp of a
stove ~ below is a mini-Kenya Ceramic Jiko headlining for a posh Nairobi
restaurant.
Cheers
Teddy Kinyanjui
*Cookswell Jikos*
www.cookswell.co.ke
www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos
www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com
Mobile: +254 700 380 009
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P.O. Box 1433, Nairobi 00606, Kenya
Save trees - think twice before printing.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:
> Dear James
>
> Check with GIZ and ask for documents from PERACOD in Senegal. They must
> have studied the local talent. There are a lot of sheet metal stoves made
> there in Dakar.
>
> I visited a couple of they. They were cranking out IKJ's of various
> sizes. Rather unusually they have dished bases produced by hammering in a
> cavity-anvil.
>
> I believe they make the smallest charcoal stoves found anywhere. They
> are carried and used by watchmen to make a cup of tea.
>
> Regards
> Crispin
> *From: *Nolbert Muhumuza
> *Sent: *Tuesday, August 26, 2014 20:52
> *To: *Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
> *Reply To: *Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
> *Subject: *Re: [Stoves] Tinsmith business models
>
> Dear James and Otto,
>
> I know most of the stoves produced in East Africa are really done by
> local tinsmiths. Sorry that they do not mention/ even identify themselves
> as so (Awamu Biomass Energy inclusive).
> I think a Google search might not really capture the true picture/ value
> of tinsmiths in the sector. Awamu for example prefers keywords like Clean
> energy, Renewable energy, improved cookstoves etc BUT we actually have
> local young boys and girls producing stoves hundreds of gasifier stoves
> each year...
>
> Nolbert.
>
>
>
>
> 2014-08-26 12:34 GMT+03:00 Otto Formo <terra-matricula at hotmail.com>:
>
> James,
>
> I am not surprised over Your discovery and lack of formal information on
> this topic, because "most" people think BIG.
> And People whom think BIG, do not like to share their knowledge.
>
> What seems to be forgotten, that most sucessfull ventures started in a
> small scale, like IKEA, and they still use local manufatures of a certain
> scale to produce most items for their shopping mals.
>
> There are various models to bring the local artians involved in production
> of stoves, like a supply chain of proper materials, prefabricated flatpacks
> and more industrilized small scale production using simple handtools to a
> bit more advanced machinery.
> Just use Your imagination.
>
> I prefer 1000 millionaires apart from one (1) billionar.
>
> Employment is very much needed all over the planet and especially for
> young people age 15 to 30.
>
> Just go ahead and create opportunities and employment for local artisans
> and street vendors.
>
> Otto
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:49:31 +0200
> From: jamesrobinson77 at gmail.com
> To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
> Subject: [Stoves] Tinsmith business models
>
>
> Dear list,
>
> I'm looking for more information on tinsmith business models, value
> chains and capacity building - and am surprised to find very little formal
> information on the topic, especially given the role they play in stove
> production in most areas.
>
> I've found Toyola in Ghana, a little on Mwoto in Uganda and an analysis
> by GIZ/Cecil Cook in Zambia but am still looking for more information - any
> ideas please?
>
> When I'm done all information will be fed back to the list/website.
>
> Cheers
> James Robinson
> Malawi
>
>
>
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