[Kartographer]

Here are some pictures of my completed Ammo Can Rocket Stove.

Inside with pipe installed.


This is the finish stove. If you look you can see I brought a what's called a mending plate (4"X6") to use a in the fire chamber to raise the fire up and allow a better air flow as they recommend for such stoves. It took 3 8 quart bags of Prelite to fill the can.

[Danae]

Ok, I am a total Nooob when it comes to this, what is this for?

Sorry for being so ignorant as to have to ask..... :/

[JRandomFreeper]

What are the 4 rods on the top of the ammo can?

/johnny

[Sarajevo]

Now that is just cool!

It's an excellent use for an old ammo can.

[bgill]

Kart, aren’t you the handy man! That’s cool!

Thanks to NTHockey, I’ve been researching the opposite end of cooking - keeping our foods cooled. The Zeer is basically two clay pots placed one inside the other with wet sand sandwiched between and the inner pot covered. The wet sand evaporates keeping the inner pot cool. It works in Africa so it should work here.

I then ran across another evaporation unit originating from Australia called a Coolgardie Safe that uses burlap (they call it hessian cloth) to draw water up and as the wind blows keeps the inside of your container cool.

The Zeer is very simple but there’s not much info out there on the Coolgardie Safe. I’m still wondering why they recommend putting the Zeer on the rooftop. Sure, it’d be windier there but the sun’s heat would be horenous. Surely setting the Zeer in the shade would be better? Any thoughts?

[Iron Munro]

It took 3 8 quart bags of Prelite to fill the can.

Nice job.

What is the "Prelite" material you used to insulate?

I checked the original instructions at "Bear Ridge Ammo Can Rocket Stove" and Googled "Prelite" but didn't come up with an answer.

Thanks

[Ladysmith]

Nice! Even a little grill on top!

Darn ammo cans are getting hard to find. I went through a large gun show recently and not a single one out for sale. Couldn’t hardly give them away five years ago.

[Lazamataz]

VERY INTERESTING

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

What kind of paint do they use on those ammo cans? Does it smoke or peel? If so, is it safe to breathe or to make contact with your food?

I purchased a couple of the Swiss Army Volcano stoves. I wasn’t very impressed. They’d billed it as “use anything to start and continue a fire. Will boil water in under 5 minutes.”

It took quite a bit of tinkering to get a fire started. I couldn’t get it started with leaves and small twigs (the draft burned the leaves out too fast to catch the twigs) and had to cheat and use newspaper.

Once I had it going, it still took between 10-15 minutes to boil a small pot of water.

[Sawdring]

The way the piping is cut it makes it look like aluminum, be careful if you use galvanized pipe because it is supposed to give off toxins when burned.