I just made a Bushbuddy style stove out of used tin cans. Now I have never even seen a real Bushbuddy but this seems to work the same way.
Materials:
1 progresso soup can
1 sliced peaches can
1 metal clothes hanger
The soup can forms the outer wall, so it gets vent hole drilled along the bottom of the sides of the can.
Cut a straight piece of wire from a clothes hangerand drill holes so the pin will go across above the outer wall's vents. This keeps the inner wall from sitting on the bottom of the outer wall.
The peach can forms the inner wall, so the bottom of it is drilled a ton of times to make it a vent (the bushbuddy uses a mesh bottom), it gets the top cut into three prongs to form the pot stand, and it gets vent holes drilled on its walls where they sit inside the outer wall, near the top.
I tested it and it works, gases burn as they get *ed through the bottom and out the inner wall vents, utilizing the "downdraft gasification" effect of the Bushbuddy. Probably much room for improvement, but the stove boiled water (i didn't time it though) and I made some hot cocoa.
Another guy made one with tin cansover at backpacking light, but his design used a separate piece for a pot stand. Mine eliminated that extra piece for more simplicity. Somebody else made one using a Heineken can for the outer wall to save weight. I may try that next...
This picture shows the pin removed and the inner can flipped upside down for storage. Lets you see my "mesh" bottom on the inner can. I think making this even more ventilated and increasing the wall vent hole sizes may improve the stove performance.
Hurray for recycling!
Materials:
1 progresso soup can
1 sliced peaches can
1 metal clothes hanger
The soup can forms the outer wall, so it gets vent hole drilled along the bottom of the sides of the can.
Cut a straight piece of wire from a clothes hangerand drill holes so the pin will go across above the outer wall's vents. This keeps the inner wall from sitting on the bottom of the outer wall.
The peach can forms the inner wall, so the bottom of it is drilled a ton of times to make it a vent (the bushbuddy uses a mesh bottom), it gets the top cut into three prongs to form the pot stand, and it gets vent holes drilled on its walls where they sit inside the outer wall, near the top.
I tested it and it works, gases burn as they get *ed through the bottom and out the inner wall vents, utilizing the "downdraft gasification" effect of the Bushbuddy. Probably much room for improvement, but the stove boiled water (i didn't time it though) and I made some hot cocoa.
Another guy made one with tin cansover at backpacking light, but his design used a separate piece for a pot stand. Mine eliminated that extra piece for more simplicity. Somebody else made one using a Heineken can for the outer wall to save weight. I may try that next...
This picture shows the pin removed and the inner can flipped upside down for storage. Lets you see my "mesh" bottom on the inner can. I think making this even more ventilated and increasing the wall vent hole sizes may improve the stove performance.
Hurray for recycling!
