Stove Fuel Homemade BriquettesOn Doomsday Preppers this week one technique caught my eye.
In case you didn't watch it, a guy was making stove fuel from shredded newspapers mixed with leaves.
He mixed them up in water into a thick slurry and let them age a few days.
Then he put the mixture in a homemade form and squeezed most of the water out.
When removed from the form the end product looks something like a fat donut.
Then he sets the briquettes out to air dry before storing them for use.The form looked like it was made from a 1" PVC pipe inside a 4" to 6" PVC pipe.
If you are interested try to catch the re-run of the episode that ran this week.
Here is a link to a PDF showing a similar technique.
http://tinyurl.com/8ynyse7
Funny. I just found this on amazon for 39.00. It’s a 4 brick maker. It’s next on my list. Look for two pot refrigeration. Two clay pots with sand. Amazing. I think it’s also called zero pot. Youtube has video.