Re: [pct-l] Alcohol stove contest

[Bighummel@aol.com]

I am currently constructing an alcohol stove from the drain pipes that 
transportation departments use as culverts beneath highways for stream 
crossings.  It is approximately three feet in diameter, made of heavy gauge 
stainless steel.  I have cut a two foot high section of this and mounted a 
cut-in-half steel barrel (like those that oil comes in) centered into the 
middle and suspended above the ground by six inches with steel supports 
welded to the outer ring.  I have drilled four inch diameter holes into the 
outer ring to provide air flow.  I have put in sixteen pounds of steel wool 
into the half barrel.

This stove is very simple to use, just put in approximately four gallons of 
alcohol, ignite and standback!  

I lay claim to the largest and heaviest alcohol stove built and challenge 
that rain-soaked Washingtonian Monte to just try to build one bigger!

I haven't figured out how to get it to the ADZPCTKOP yet.  Does anyone have a 
flat bed truck that is going that way?

Best regards,

Phenal Pinkerbody
PCT 2000 - 2005
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