[Stoves] Heat Content of Ethanol (Gel?)

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Paul and John Davies

There is a man named Corrie Van Staden who lives in Waterval Boven west of
Nelspruit who I visited early this month.  He has independently developed a
small stove very similar in appearance to the Lily Stove, though with a
novel feature he should first protect (in my view).  

When I saw it he already had tooling and at lease some capacity to produce
an extremely well finished product.  He has been making them for some years
and I tested an early version made perhaps 3 or 4 years ago (?). He arrived
at very similar multiple small holes as the correct approach to the burning.
His lighting method is new.

He is a highly skilled tool maker and restorer of coal burning steam engines
(big, mobile ones).  John, I thought you should give him a call because he
needs a little encouragement to formalize some of his efforts.  He didn't
know there was a world of stovers.  He has a lot of knowledge about spinning
metals and tooling for same.

Mobile: +27-83-310-2995

I am not convinced he has email. He knows a lot about burning coal and has
significantly improved the performance of the tourist train that passes from
Waterval Onder up the escarpment through Machadasdorp by improving the steam
driven air injectors (or ejectors, really) similar to the steam driven
stoves we were talking about earlier this year.

For the record I was introduced to Corrie by Colin Barnes from Columbus
Stainless Steel who discovered him and his workshop in a near-abandoned
railway yard with ten full sized steam engines, his mechanical genius son
and 7 cats.

Regards
Crispin