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

[Boll, Martin Dr.]

Frank,
Describe the failure of your experiment.
What happened? Smoke? Difficulties by incending? Difficulties by burning?
Quickly dieing of the fire?

I would like to make tea, soup and coffee , as you wrote, with the new
stove, we would sit in a room heated by Frans's big-scale candle-stove.
Naturally we would invite Frans to share it! -

In the last days I thought a lot about candle-flame characteristics, but I
have not yet wrote in acceptable English. Those thoughts are all-well-known,
but when I drill down to the ground, I am convinced there is a lot to get
aware of.
- Think of Andrew's comment on different burning from dry and wet wood.
I saw this in realty, but I was not aware. (Thanks Andrew! Those things had
to be in a collection "basics to meditate about")

Nosy to hear your facts of burning

Martin


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: frank [mailto:frank at compostlab.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2006 19:23
> An: Boll, Martin Dr.
> Cc: Stoves-List; 'Frans Peeters'
> Betreff: Re: [Stoves] Wick Burners: Martin's Tea Time Candle Stove
> 
> Martin,
> 
> To report a failure. I stripped the backing off a sheet of corrugated
> cardboard to make it easy to roll into a tube, stuffed it into a
> cardboard toilet paper tube, slid it into a pipe and lit the top end..
> smoke
> 
> My thinking is the cardboard has small tubes that goes the length of
> the  6" strip that would carry air up the rolled tube to the fire on
> top. The tubes could be 'loaded' into the barrel with spring holding
> them against the top.  The inside of the tube needs  sharp points in the
> inside pointing up to prevent them from falling so you can load in
> another from the bottom as they are used. I am thinking the barrel would
> be at a 45 deg. angle to make them easy to light at the top, easy to
> load from outside the stove and the ash would fall out of the way. I am
> disappointed my first attempt worked to poorly. Not sure if its the fuel
> or the air or something else.
> 
> If we can do this the small fire we need for you to make your tea and me
> to make a hot pot of soup from the steam and finish with a cup of coffee
> from the steamer  would be permanently placed at the most efficient spot
> under the pot.
> 
> Frank