[Stoves] Wick Burners: Martin's Tea Time Candle Stove

[frank at compostlab.com]

Dear Martin,

I once had the job of going through a house to determine why the room has a
black 'growth' that was developing around the ceiling. The lady burned a lot
of candles. 
I wondered what it would take to make the candles burn clean and was thinking
perhaps an upside down metal funnel over the candle would help. 
The funnel would heat up so the air above the flame would get hot. Air would
be sucked in all around the flame and all air-heat would be pin pointed out
the funnel top to the exact place wanted. If, in the future, we could
formulate fuel sticks I am thinking this idea might work. I am thinking the
fuel sticks could be in a paper (cardboard) tube and this tube is what one
would light. This was going to be my next spare time project.

Frank 









n Sun, 1 Oct 2006 20:38:36  0200, Boll, Martin Dr. wrote
> Frank,
> Your thoughts, to direct the heat, without warming up the big mass 
> of a stove, directly to the "food" are the same as Frans-Peeter's. 
> His proposals and tests are no phantasms, though being a little bit too
> refined for low-tech-stoving with low cost stoves. But "de-larded" (I
> translate latterly a German expression) his proposals are make-able and
> desirable for many and even poor users. 
> By the way: Remind the simple method of the chimney going through a certain
> soup-pot (The name of which I don't know now). That was an attempt already
> made long ago. (I think as well of the more modern Kelly-kettle).
> And if we would connect that sort of pot with the modern technic and 
> add cooling/heating fins that can possibly be a simple way to 
> combine our wishes. (A small-scale camping gas-heater with fin-
> warmth-transport is constructed in North-America. They say 
> fuel/butane-saving is 50%
> (To ameliorate; the boiling water can contain fins as well, but not the
> soup) 
> The direction I think to go with the tea-candles, you will see in another
> posting.
> I would like to hear more about your idea with fuel-sticks.
> How do you get them easily "self-burning" like candles?
> 
> We will keep the wicks in mind!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Martin
> 
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:31:41 -0700
> > From: frank <frank at compostlab.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Stoves] Wick Burners: Martin's Tea Time Candle Stove
> > To: "Boll, Martin Dr." <boll.bn at t-online.de>
> > Cc: stoves at listserv.repp.org
> > Message-ID: <451D587D.9040108 at compostlab.com>
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> > 
> > Martin,
> > I like your MTT stove and the suggestion to look more into wick burning.
> > This seems to go along with the idea of producing steam and directing it
> > directly into the soup pot  for cooking. An idea that I like because you
> > do not need to first heat the stove and pot.. The wick (or fuel stick
> > without a wick) would work best for controlled heat. They just need be
> > formulated with local resins-paper-grass type materials.
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> ******************************


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