Small camp stove

A home-made stove for heating a tent can be used so that tourists can spend the night warm and even in those cases when you need to heat a steam room in camping conditions. The author of this model uses it mainly in the off-season at temperatures at not very low temperatures - about minus 5 degrees and only occasionally tested it in frosty conditions when going skiing.

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Necessary elements of the stove and materials:
- Pipe made of steel with a thickness of 0.2 mm, weight 360 grams. Made from 4 foam cans.
- Chimney made of steel 0.2 mm thick (cover on the pipe to protect against snow or rain on the street), weight 20 grams. It is made from one can of foam, weight 20 grams; an electrode with a diameter of 3 mm was also used.
- Casing made of galvanized steel sheet 0.4 mm thick, weight 1 kg; steel blind rivets 3.2x6 mm.
– Furnace legs made of galvanized steel rods for suspended ceilings, length 1 m, diameter 4 mm, weight 160 grams.
- The passage through the roof of the tent is made of 0.2 mm thick tinned steel, made from the bottom of a can, weight 120 grams.
– Cover made of terpauling (reinforced polyethylene, plus a sling – nylon thread, weight 160 grams.
In general, the weight of the entire tourist stove for the tent was 1.86 kg. Folded size 320x240x150 mm. The stove can be conveniently placed in a lightweight 80 liter backpack.

About the design. There is an afterburner in the stove, pay attention to the row of rivets on top, this is the riveted partition of the chamber (at a distance of 38 mm from the top, close to the front wall and 26 mm from the back wall). The pipe is at the end of the chamber. The gases go to the back wall, rise into the chamber, then go to the front wall and into the pipe. All passages with a section not less than the section of the pipe. Thanks to the afterburner, the fuel is used more efficiently and sparks do not fly from the pipe. There is no column.

Before using the stove in a tent, you must first heat it outside to completely get rid of the zinc coating. If after that zinc remains in separate places, burn it with a gas burner.
The developer of this tourist mini-stove has been successfully using it since 2009 in tents specially made for the stove, the total operating time by 2012 was about 200 hours. The photo shows a drawing of a tourist stove.

If you are going to spend winter nights in a tent on a hike, then the author does not advise relying only on this stove. It is better to have a sleeping bag with an appropriate comfort temperature. A stove like this one can only dry you and your belongings and create a comfortable temperature in the tent for a short time.

Nevertheless, even with a good sleeping bag, the stove still does not hurt. It makes it much easier in cold weather.
Check out more (up to 40 degrees), with which you can sleep without even hiding under a blanket.
Why is the top of this stove not flat, because it would be possible to cook food on the stove? According to the author of the furnace, the thin flat steel sheet from which the furnace is made deforms somewhat after the first heating. The plane of contact with the bottom of the dish is reduced. To maintain the boiling point of water, you have to overheat the stove, which is dangerous in a small tent. because from its radiation the surrounding things overheat. And it becomes uncomfortable for people in a small tent to be near the stove.
For this stove, two tents were made - houses. Three-slope 1.5x2.6 meters, and gable 1.3x2.0 meters. Both tents have high sides 0.6 m and a height of 1.4 m. The bottom of the gable tent comes unfastened, it is used without a bottom with a stove as a sauna and for winter ski picnics. A gable with a bottom is used to store things and products.
This development can be used as a camp stove for a bath, but only at positive temperatures, better in summer. For a bath, the stove was heated at an outdoor temperature of up to plus 4 degrees.