[Stoves] Lo-fi ELSA stove

David Young dyoung at pobox.com
Fri Feb 17 21:24:43 CST 2017


Oh, but it's not my video!  The design is by an Italian firm called Blucomb. I have made a low-fidelity copy of their stove, loosely following the video and blueprints. Sorry if I was not clear.

Dave

Spilling kerrectud by iPhone

> On Feb 17, 2017, at 8:42 PM, Frank Shields <franke at cruzio.com> wrote:
> 
> David
> 
> Well done video. I enjoyed seeing how you made the stove and how well it worked. Thanks
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Feb 17, 2017, at 4:54 PM, Frank Shields <franke at cruzio.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 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
>> Gabilan Laboratory
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>> franke at cruzio.com
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