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Always know how these were used on the Wedtern desert in WW2 but never tried it.
Had some petrol of indeterminate age that I didn’t want to chance in the car so its been reserved for mower and petrol stoves.
Made myself a petrol stove out of an empty bean tin, very trial and error; think I may have over filled it with sand (or possibly petrol or both) as after a bit it would burn but putting the pan on it tended to dampen it down and put it out and it was also susceptible to the wind. It left a lot of soot on the pan.
Will wait for it to cool down, remove some sand and try again tomorrow!
If you do want to drill holes in a beam tin, to make a stove or roughy billy I found filling it with water and freezing it makes it easy to drill without distorting.
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Had some petrol of indeterminate age that I didn’t want to chance in the car so its been reserved for mower and petrol stoves.
Made myself a petrol stove out of an empty bean tin, very trial and error; think I may have over filled it with sand (or possibly petrol or both) as after a bit it would burn but putting the pan on it tended to dampen it down and put it out and it was also susceptible to the wind. It left a lot of soot on the pan.
Will wait for it to cool down, remove some sand and try again tomorrow!
If you do want to drill holes in a beam tin, to make a stove or roughy billy I found filling it with water and freezing it makes it easy to drill without distorting.
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