I have a very good customer that drives a considerable distance to visit my store. I think a lot of it is because her husband and I BS about trailers, fishing, camping, using epoxy for whatever, etc....they're retired. He was a UC Davis prof. and spends most of his time now fly fishing, camping and backpacking. When they come by the store, we both visit the forum and I show him every ones builds and ideas and how far along they are.
I had mentioned to him that I was restoring vintage camping gear and he made me this little beer can stove and dropped it off to me. I've tried to make them in the past, but didn't get the burn like I wanted.
This stove with fuel only ends up weighing 4oz, runs on denatured alcohol...perfect for someone not willing to haul heavy stuff when backpacking. What's cool is that it uses 2 can bottoms and he cut a liner so that there is a internal chamber that will get up to temp and give the burner type effect.
I know there are sites that give info on how to build them and we've talked about them on the forum, but I hadn't seen one quite like this. He uses one like this all the time. I've always been into little stoves and thought this was pretty cool. Probably won't cook a waffle, but then no one is lugging that type of iron when backpacking! Doug