[Stoves] Lo-fi ELSA stove

[Frank Shields]

> On Feb 17, 2017, at 10:14 AM, David Young <dyoung at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> I have built the ELSA stove that's
> documented here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55r5DmvT3XE .
> 
> I started with a stainless steel trashcan that had seen better days.  I
> unrolled it and glued on ELSA stove blueprints from the web.  Then I cut
> out the shapes with a 24 tpi bimetal blade in a jigsaw.
> 
> I don't have an anvil, or the sheet-metal "curling" tool (is there a
> name for it?) that is shown in the video.  I bent the metal over some
> angle-iron, and I made the tool from some stainless tubing I bought at
> the hardware store.
> 
> I couldn't get the stove to light until I used the lighting cylinder,
> which is shown in the video, for some extra draft.  I used brown packing
> paper as tinder, and wood pellets as fuel.
> 
> I attached a couple of photos.  One shows the stove itself.  You can
> see that I'm an amateur fabricator.  The other shows the stove under a
> kettle.  A lot of condensation forms on the kettle and, after the stove
> has burned out, there is a thick layer of creosote on part of the kettle.
> 
> To avoid the creosote formation, I'm not sure if I should raise the
> kettle to give the flame more time to burn out, or lower the flame by,
> say, centrally introducing preheated secondary air---I am thinking of
> Kirk Harris' design.
> 
> Dave
> 
> -- 
> David Young
> dyoung at pobox.com    Urbana, IL    (217) 721-9981
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Thanks

Frank
Frank Shields
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