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

[frank]

Martin,
It just burned like cardboard. More smoke than I want and the fire would 
go out (smolder)  as it went close to the metal barrel. I did not have a 
way to push it up and it was in the tube a little tighter than I want - 
but thats what was on hand. Perhaps the tubes were squashed together or 
bent so they didn't work or they would not have made any difference 
anyways. Or a fan at the bottom pushing air up the tube would work. I 
was thinking of adding a layer of pine needles along the cardboard 
before rolling it up. All this goes on the back burner for awhile.

Frank




Boll, Martin Dr. wrote:

>Frank,
>Describe the failure of your experiment.
>What happened? Smoke? Difficulties by incending? Difficulties by burning?
>Quickly dieing of the fire?
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>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! -
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>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")
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>Nosy to hear your facts of burning
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>Martin
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>>-----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
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>>Martin,
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>>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
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>>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
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