[Stoves] Fwd: Simplified TLUD design

[Paul Anderson]

Jock and all Stovers and Biochar-producers

You ask about other simple TLUD designs.

There were many back in 2000 to 2004 especially.  This was pre-Champion 
TLUD and the name TLUD (in 2005)     Tincanium ruled. Lots of interest 
by backpackers.   One I remember is the "Midge" Search the web for    
midge stove      Find plenty
  http://www.instructables.com/id/MIDGE-gasifier-campstove/
Not much became commercial.      This should be eventually added to the 
TLUD history document.

And then there is the "Classic" of tincanium, the 1G Toucan by Hugh 
McLaughlin (2010),     See it at:
http://www.drtlud.com/?resource=prt10130

My son Simon is a high school teacher of technology (wood, metal, 
graphics, etc).   Each year his students do a variation of the 1G 
Toucan.   The main difference is that Simon's version uses as the lower 
(fuel) container a #10 food-canning can (which are free from the school 
cafeteria).  I just thought of a name for it:   #10 Toucan,       that 
gives recognition to McLaughlin's line of "Toucan" stoves (Note:  Toucan 
is a tropical bird with a very large beak, and the name is a play on 
words of "two-can".    Actually, the stove is 2.5 cans, but who is counting?

instead, McLaughlin's classic uses a one-gallon paint can that has the 
wonderful arrangement for a tight-fitting lid to extinquish the char, 
but are more difficult to find (and the used ones have dried paint in 
them) or cost a couple of dollars each (which can be beyond the budget 
in high school classrooms..

McLaughlin's 1G Toucan is primarily designed to make biochar, and has no 
provision for holding a pot.   Similary, Simon's #10 Toucan does not 
support a pot.   Instead, the students put their heat source under some 
rack that will hold up the por.   One popular pot support is made from a 
standard wire-cone for holding tomato plants.    And a few cement blocks 
or bricks can hold uo metal Bar-B-Que grate.  The "cooking day" is a 
highlight for the students, with everything from Smore's to fried eggs 
and some imaginative cooking.

Maybe Simon will finally make his operational plans and lesson plans 
available for everyone.  (No pressure, Son.   But it is time to do it.  
A family project with Chris, Jessy and Zoey this summer.)   The results 
will be on   drtlud.com    as soon as anything is ready.

Paul

Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu
Skype:   paultlud    Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  www.drtlud.com

On 5/5/2017 9:36 AM, Andrew Heggie wrote:
> From: Jock Gill
> Date: 4 May 2017 at 23:59
> Subject: Simplified TLUD design
> To: stoves-owner at lists.bioenergylists.org
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> Stovers,
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> I have just today started to explore a simplified TLUD design that is
> new to me. Has this been done before? Is it a well known variant?
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