[Stoves] Lo-fi ELSA stove

Frank Shields franke at cruzio.com
Fri Feb 17 20:42:28 CST 2017


David

Well done video. I enjoyed seeing how you made the stove and how well it worked. Thanks

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> On Feb 17, 2017, at 4:54 PM, Frank Shields <franke at cruzio.com> wrote:
> 
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>> 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
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