Homemade TIN CAN Rocket Stove - DIY Rocket Stove - Awesome Stove! - EASY instructions!
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- Homemade TIN CAN ROCKET STOVE. Simple DIY. no special tools required. easy clear directions. This stove is great! Items needed: 3 metal cans, gravel/sand and/or dirt! that's it. only tools i used were a hacksaw, pliers and a drill. powerful stove. wind and rain resistant. can cook full meals using very little fuel (leaves, twigs and small sticks). i've even fueled these stoves just on "junk mail!". if you like the vid. please rate, subscribe and share. notes: main body of stove (largest can) is a one gallon paint can. bought it at home depot for $5. medium sized can is a pasta sauce can and the smallest can is a standard size soup can. i used a 2 1/2" hole saw to mark (score) the paint can
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Next time, fill it half full of water and put it in the freezer. After it's frozen just use your hole saw, the ice will support the cut.
I'll remember that. Good idea!
I haven't been on here for awhile it's been like 6 years or more and it's like my 1008th time using this Stove it's still going strong today. I always get asked at the beach what is that!! Then I show them by cooking burgers, chicken,hot dogs,steaks,pork chops,bacon and eggs and Brew my coffee as well as make soups on the beach everyone always says where's the flame and smoke I tell them it's virtually invisible and ask me if I want to sell it. I'm like no but I will gladly show you how to make one. Best stove I've ever had I just walk along the beach picking up thrash and dry driftwood and branches or even dry seaweed and burn that for hours on end. Still love it and use it almost every day.
Does the inner can ever burn out?
I’m a connoisseur of rocket stove video ideas onYT. This is brilliant. The fact that you have a north east accent is a bonus.
The ancient Romans used to heat their public baths using basically the same technology on a grander scale, heating both the floors and boiler for the water.Thanks for the tutorial. It's very instructive and useful in survival situations
Just a tip for people trying to cut the hole in the first tin.. If you fill the tin with DAMP sand , then lightly drop the can from about 5mm off the ground to pack it in, place the lid on top of the can and lay the can on its side.. you can now easily use a whole saw to cut the tin. ;)
You need a tray in the inlet that lets air in under the wood. You'll get a hotter fire.
more heat/not enough durable metal here.
Some brick and mortar, you can make an outdoor cooking oven. Yea, I like your tin stove too.
my kind of grill. made at home. kicks ass. portable. space heater. no corporate involvement. well done bro.
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Google owns the CZcams, and is corporate! Thanks for the minority report....
Cans,drill, bits,and tools we live in corporate America.
Don't use this as a space heater without proper ventilation
I wonder how long can this can keep the heat after the fire inside has burnt out. (Maybe use inside the tent.)
I made one today and it seems to work good, going to use it when I go ice fishing. I traced the soup can with a pen onto the pail and the larger center can, drilled a starter hole, then used a solid knife (banana knife) to cut out the holes a 1/4 inch at a time. I put a hole in the center can instead of notching it as you did, because I wanted to keep the base on the center can. I only used sand so that it would pack in and stay in place better. For those wondering how to clean it out, the ashes fall out of the inlet (soup) can easily enough. Thanks for the vid!
IF YOU PUT WATER IN THE CAN AND FREEZE IT, YOU CAN DRILL RIGHT THROUGH WITHOUT BENDING THE CAN. CLEAN CUT
great tip cutting that circle is the hardest thing
great idea
+Tammy Noble Smart girl :D
Awesome idea!
Fucking brilliant idea but how do you ge the ice out?
One of the classiest looking DIY rocket stoves I've seen on the Internet
Easy tip: If you really must use a hacksaw on tin can material, take the blade out and put it back in backwards so that it cuts on the pull stroke.
Send a bunch of these to Texas!!
I'm in Texas I've been passing on the information hoping it will save lives
Í want go tó texas. I m watching jrewing this time😁
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Only bring them inside after the fires burnt out.
Love the Rocket stove, built all sizes and shapes myself.
Aviation snips are great for tin can work and a nail is good enough to puch the holes, that way we can save electricity. To avoid smoke you might have to increase the gap between the pot and stove, that seems to help for us! Keep up the solutions people, the time is here to share good info.
This is one of the most wonderful sites on net...Thanks and God bless U,cuz my creative mind have been ACTIVATED
made one over the weekend with 11 year old daughter. we made Smore's after and cooked late lunch, rice and stew from scratch. Thanx for posting
Thanks for sharing your brilliant idea, Mr. desertsun02! This could really help my poor provincemates in the Philippines. Firewood in some places there is getting scarce, most especially during rainy season. Been looking at the internet for a long time for a project of this kind at the least cost; but this one would not incur any cost at all. I'll bring it there. Thanks again...
If you can find waste vegetable or even motor oil, you can dip the wood in the stuff so it'll burn much longer. Just don't breathe in the fumes of used motor oil
I really got into building these as well as the alcohol burners, etc, and find that the clay cat liter works very well, and if slightly moistened before first burn tends to harden the litter into a cement like base, making it burn even warmer.
you could use a nice pair of metal snips.
That is a good idea, thank you.
Pure genius and cat litter is cheap.
Shawn S. ... Super suggestion! Much faster than using cement like I had initially planned to do.
Clumping Cat Litter is nothing but Raw Bentonite Clay. It is not good for firing into pottery, but: in a case like this where we aren't worried about Waterproof, who cares?
For insulation I mixed self-drying clay with shellsand and a spoonfull sugar, after the first burn this became rock-solid so easier to transport and throw out ashes. I also took a stainless steel drinking straw, cut into pieces and made airflow-holes at the bottom, drilled through both cans. Works perfect! Oh, and instead of making an arch on the inner can I drilled a whole cirkel in that can too. Now it is easy to take it along camping, I take the front can out and stack it inside the stove.
Good Job!! .... one small detail... Try to put a flat platform, like a metal sliver in your feeding can... there is videos on the tube that shows the concept of fuel and air mix. Great looking stove and happy cooking! Peace
That's a very tidy build. Nice job. Thanks for showing us.
thanks. yeah i think the stove works great. definitely make one. cost almost nothing to build and very easy to put together.
We lost power in Boston for 3 days. The only thing that saved us were the old ski suits ( It got down to 45 inside while zero F outside), and the burner on our Grill. This design is exactly what one needs to boil water and cook soup. Thanks for posting this!
One small mod I made was to tilt the inlet up 30 deg to use gravity in my favor. Works great, thanks for the idea.
Jerry Ohmer isnt 30 deg bit much? i thought inlet was purely for air income like in jet engine. so it burns better
The 30 deg is not for air. It allows for gravity to feed fuel for longer burns. As the old fuel turns to ash it allows for unburned fuel to fall into its place.
That's what I was thinking I would do.
I'm just going to say this. Ive been almost all over CZcams and I havent found anything as good as your design for a little stove. Good job making it. It looks awesome
I agree genius idea
By fellowing your video I made one of these last night it worked great! I set it up in the dark and you could really see the vacuum in the low light. if I do any winter camping it might work as a small shelter heater as well as a great stove. Many thanks
Did you try it as a heater?
Also try adding chimneys on top with different size cans or I've made a handy blower with a 2 liter coke bottle with a square hole and 12V 4" computer fan on the side, blow that into the fuel feed- mini forge, one last thing, a shelf for the fuel feed soup can helps air get under the sticks.
Just watch the smoke from those linings from fresh cans and remember, more heat decreases the can life faster.
Play with Fire.
I love it that you used what you had, to do as good or better than sandpaper, etc. Minimal is the way to go! Thanks!
I first saw this type of stove 50 years ago in South East Asia. However it was made of concrete and used Rice Hulls as Fuel.
pretty cool. simple, hot and effecient.
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Yeah, that's what i used to be when i was child when cooking some food with my grandmother
Long long time ago
Such lovely time
Do you think making a chimney would make this safer for indoor use on a shed? I was thinking a flexible metal pipe and vent it through a window(make a sheet metal square same size as shed window take out window and replace with sheet metal then vent up a rigid stack? Maybe put cement board hearth pad and wall backing? Think it could work? I may try
makes a great gift to homeless folks
Great! nice to have a movable stove when camping. You can cook a meal away from rain and sun under a tarp. Uses wood effciently too. The rocks/sand hold heat for nice simmering I imagine...
You can also make a ventilation control with the soda can. This way, both temp and fuel duration can be more controlled thus adding flexibility.
Usually the insulation around the stack is a bit better than rocks, usually some sort of perlite and clay slip blend. Thats a little more complex for a hobo stove of course, but the insulated stack is where the magic of a rocket mass heater happens. Since that solidifies, you can turn out the ash no problem. The taller the insulated stack, the better the mass heat conversion is.
I'm clueless. Are you saying that a perlite and clay slip blend will melt and solidify - like fireclay? Perlite you can get a garden centre, can't you? And a potter could supply the clay slip or can you make your own if you have access to clay (I do). Can you give a ratio?
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Best DIY stove and best instructional video .Brilliant work !Thanks.
That is awesome, dude. I will definitely use your design to make a few and put them in my preps. Compact, convenient and easy to use...love it!!!
Agreed 👍
Very cool, great job. That works great.
Let's see the one you made. What have you cooked on it?
Me encanta como enseñas yo no sé inglés pero al ver tan detallado como muestras tus enseñanzas eso explica muy muy bien haciendo las cosas es otro lenguaje universal excelente 😍💯😘
hi. thank you and i totally agree 🙂
This would make an awesome camp stove. Cheaper than propane cookers and seems a bit safer than just a regular campfire.
Well made video. Easy to follow instructions. Great job. I do have a suggestion. When cutting the inside can, you said the hardest part is getting the cut started past the lip of the can. If you take a can opener and turn it sideways, you'll cut the entire lip off rather than just the lid, but be careful as the edge is extremely sharp.
Steve O They also have can openers that will do just what you mentioned, but without the sharp edge. It should work perfect.
Definitely making one of these. A+
Fantastica..., es la mejor opciòn de cocina que he visto, pràctica y fàcil de elaborar con materiales reciclables, grava y piedritas, no busquen màs esta es la mejor opciòn.
hi and thanks. i appreciate the comment👍
Wow ... great ideas from all. I like the ice or sand trick to let you drill all the way through. Hole saws can get grabby though, and cause a little two-step quicky on the ol' wrist. Another idea is to use the hole saw to 'mark' the circle, then use a jig saw with a fine-toothed blade to cut out the circle.
you could use aquarium rock for the pea gravel, if necessary. I like how compact this stove is. gonna have to make one.
Fill the can with sand and use the hole bit to drill all of the way through. The sand keeps the can from collapsing when the drill is pressed against it.
mrsillywalk Another is to fill the can about 1/2- 3/4 full of water & then freeze solid.
+Oldtimer Lee Water expands, it could burst the container. If you do this, turn the can sideways and drill the half that's frozen to that side of the container.
+megadeathx
1/2- 3/4 full like Oldtimer Lee said won't burst it, or even slightly bend/distort the can really
megadeathx Lol, the cans are already open... does your ice tray warp because you make ice with it? No, because it has an open end. Think it all the way through mate.
thetravelinghermit lol
The ultimate cheap and useful car camping cooker.
Excellent !, I'm going to drill small holes through the bottom of both tins, they must equate with each other, then attach small bore 8mm -10 mm, copper pipe between each 2 adjacent holes, then fill with fireproof insulation, ( sand or gravel either ? ) once comple air will fill the bottom chamber of the inner can forcing more pressure for the flames, thank you for the vid !!!
Hey thanks for the idea. I just built one myself. Gonna take it winter camping with the boys. I'll let you know how it works!
Search for 'Arizona penny can stove' way better design than this for camping. Its smaller, lighter, quicker to make and more efficient. You won't be disappointed
I love it! I have seen many different versions on how to do it and yours is one of the easiest. I assume that the paint can has never been used, it looked like that to me. I have a dremel and I think that would work a bit better in cutting the can. Cleaning it out would be easy once the coals are no longer hot.I have a wooden spatula that I use for cooking and that would be great to clean it out.
By far the easiest and best one yet
thanks 👍
Genius, simple idea and the materials are every where. Thanks for sharing
This is soooo coool! I've watched a few of your videos and I have to say, you are very descriptive, get right to the point, and show us some super cool stuff. I'm gonna call you the Can Man.... you can do some awesome stuff with cans!!!! LOL Thanks so much!
Fill the paint can full of sand to hold it's shape and the hole saw will work just fine.
If the hole saw starts to catch and snag on the can run it in reverse to cut the hole, it will work on thin metal in reverse.
I stacked about 10 soup can sealed it with exhaust mud still got a foot to 3 ft flame. Then added a blower almost set self on fire haha... but did work great.
How did you join the cans? anything special or just stacked?
This will help out during the zombie apocalypse
If you have a dremel tool a grinding wheel will cut right through that metal fast. Nice design though, the paint can already has a nice handle built in.
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Which attachment would you use?
Salutes bro,,many Salutes !! Tin snips for Hunts can is all I would add. Thanks ,
Wow good rocket stove
hi and thanks! 👍🙂
That's amazing.. I was just going to buy some soapstone warmers and put candles in them because it can hold heat for 12 hours
You should put some holes along the base of the outer can, above the sand line. The heat that builds in the outer chamber would cause air to be drawn in, adding to the upward flow parallel to the burn chamber. Not sure how much the gravel will impede that flow, though (most I've seen leave the air space).
That thing is can-tastic!
😂😂😂😂can tastic🤣🤣🤣🤣
It "can" be done👍
Wonderful design and "field" manufacture from "found" items...the very best type of Survival stove. Thanks for your video!!!
Beautiful work. I have tried this several times. Cutting a round hole in the side of a Cylindrical Paint can is a REAL CHALLENGE. You show a nice solution. Thanks.
hi and thank you! yes, it would be difficult to cut a round hole in the big can (especially a round hole of the exact size needed to hold the small can tightly). but doing it like i did allows for an 'adjustable size' hole in the big can. the little points of metal that are left over from the drilling grab and hold the small can very tightly. those points can be pushed in a little or straitened a little (as needed) to get the small 'fuel feed' can to fit perfectly.
@@desertsun02 Seems PATIENCE is just as useful in this as in many operations. (Sigh!)
Good stuff. I've been using something similar for years. Because I like to build my own furniture and bee hives, I have lots of wood shavings and saw dust. So instead of filling the outer sides with sand and gravel, I pack in my saw dust and or shavings and light that with a piece of paper. Beware the can will get hot enough to burn a floor so it needs to be set-up on stones or something fire-retardant. The inner cans are used for a mould to create a tunnel / chimney. A four litre / one gallon can of saw dust with give a good even heat for about an hour, so more cheese sandwiches please.
Im using this at work to boil water to make tea since theres lost of wood around its perfect just have to be responsible how its used
Nice man... here is a tip, put a rounde log inside the tincan to brace it and cut the hole with the holesaw(for wood) running in reverse.
I making one outta a old water heater. The hole is already there. So I'm using a 4 in a half inch grinder to cut my hole in the tube. .Great idea.
I like it. I'm definitely gonna build one to keep in case of emergencies
Excellent!
Instead of the inside cans, just slip in a pipe with an elbow that feeds to the top... will last longer and cleaner...just a thought...nice video
Simple straight forward , well done Thank You
You just saved me $150 over an EcoZoom. Yes they are $150 now. 😌
S L I C K !!!!
I must make one now!
Thank you!
well that cooking in campsite sorted :) amazing video really cool. thank you for uploading.
Great idea, thanks.
For a garden/patio heater I use an old Hotpoint Washing machine drum with the pulley wheel spun back on the shaft the other way around to make a foot.
i have the same stove , and i can melt metals in it , lika aluminium and copper !!!!!
i put sheesha-coals in it , and fire it up , with an hair dryer !!!!!
yesss great video .
I would love to see you do this
To use the coals, you could put a metal lid with a few holes and some small brochettes inside it, maybe hanging from the lid. Yummy...
made one of these using tin snips, they make light work of cutting the cans and well worth the investment to buy them for this type of projects
Very nice. You gotta make some tea using it; it will be extra delicious
Simple, but efficient. It would be the perfect technology for countries in Africa or poor people in the country of India or southern America were people don't have much money but live mainly outdoors.
You can protect the forests around the world while using that "trash fuel" such as twigs or dried cattle poo and you get a wonderful fertilizer for the soil too.
you're right, i made one too and it works with little fuel. Just get grass, dried weeds, and sticks. For me though I use paper to start the fire as the flame wants to die too quick otherwise.
Chimi ....i thinking the same ,
Chimi lmao people have been making rocket stoves for thousands of years. This type of technology is well known to people in poor countries
haha chimi, that's pretty much what they use in those type countries, if they don't buy cheap subsidized lpg cylinders. Lived in Indonesia for a while, Ibu still had an old clay one and a tin one from when she first married (1960's) and the real woop woop village crew just make them with earth bricks and clay. Burn cocnut husks and twigs and shit (literally).
+stee vo oh yes animal dungvand yes human pop. high fuel as well can also use along with some paper as a ceramic raku. kiln
Put the lid back on and you have yourself a nice little back woods hot plate! hehe
For really good insulation use plaster of paris, pearllite and sand. Built a large scale stove of stainless with a vented lid along the same premiss. Can use either wood or charcoal.
Perfect quarantine project!
Ive made a stove with 1 inch perforated card board rolled tightly into a tuna can then pour hot wax over the top it makes like a sterno can and lasts along time then for the stove used a coffee can and cut the side up enough to slide the tuna can (Burning ) into the bottom __ for the coffee can use a church key (bottle opener pointy end) made holes along the ridge of the coffee can (top side_ so the heat can escape. learned it in a survival course i took yrs ago.
Awesome
Bud Lite Lime?
now that a true survival situation.
That is a nasty brew
Wow, very cool, and simple enough for me to make, thanks
I ordered my metal grate for a cooking surface. thru amazon. I also discussed with a friend who has a cast iron stove on making a rocket mass heater. He wants to but he still has some reservations. He has the skills in abundance to do it. I would make one except I cant--I live in a condo. He also bought books on gasifiers and carburater gasifier for a car/truck. I'm gonna make a 'conversion kit' to make my stove into a rocket mass heater. basically a large bucket that will overlay the above rocket stove. with the two holes for intake and exhaust. Just as a test. It wont be a permanent change. but it shd be interesting to see how how it gets.
If you can't the store burners grates there are hundreds of ways to make something like them out of common household items and or thing from the hardware store bins. My favorite is taking two or three strips of metal bending them down 90 degrees on each end where they go over the edge of the can then do a 180 reverse bend after half an inch and then making a roll out of the remaining inch of metal on each side. Drill a hole in the center of each strip and use a small bolt to hold them centered. Do it right and it can be stored inside the can when not in use
I think places like Home Depot or Lowes sells just the burner grates.
so cool
Cool
Very cool idea and i love all the recycled materials that were incorporated into this. Very neat.
A very nice camping tool. Simple, elegant, reliable. Thanks for the video.
next time you make one put water into the can and freeze it, then you can use the hole saw.
or put a 2x4 behind it???
Damn, that's a good tip. Ive used ice in copper lines like that. Same principle
George Hart
Great idea !!!
George Hart
Great idea, well done and appears to work well. Just one thought. You've got to get your self a pair of aviation snips. Your life will be much easier. Good job.
Yes, I think the snipper will allow you to make one in the field, or if you had no power or a dead battery.
I like to make things with hand tools, and leave the power tools for big jobs, like building a house or in-ground swimming pool.
And now I can make my own camp stove. Thanks for the video.
I think it's great how you only use hand tool and make it so simple to follow, great job mate
by the way, ....I didn't use the sand or gravel. I just put a couple flat rocks in the bottom to steady the inner can.
I like it..
Me and my homegirl just did this and it worked great! We've been frying eggs, making wild boar and sauteing asparagus..thanks desertsun02!
made one today and works great. thanks for sharing
It's kind of amusing watching this; I'd never seen one of these until I came to Guatemala in 1999 and stayed with a desperately poor family and watched the grandmother start a fire in her home made stove. It was a rusted out 12 quart cooking pot (apx.) that someone had tossed.
It wasn't made quite the same as the one in this video though. She filled the pot with sawdust and packed it in good, then drilled a hole in the sawdust, with a stick, through the rusted out hole on the bottom of one side and with another stick, at the same time, connected another hole, going down from the top through the center.
once she had a connecting hole, she started a fire in the hole at the bottom and let physics carry the heat and flame up.
I was impressed; the stove burnt long and hot and the black beans turned out great!