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DIY: 9 gram mini side burner alcohol stove

The bane of many a solo-hiker that buys his snowpeak 600 or 700 is that most alcohol stoves no longer work well with such a small pot!  Never fear, you can now save more grams and more money with this DIY… WARNING: It may leave you slightly more caffeinated!

It’s a mini side burner stove made from 2 mini energy drink cans. Hurray, another excuse to buy energy drinks! It’s made out of the narrow energy drink cans and that makes it incredibly light (9 grams) and also really efficient for narrow pots that solo hikers tend to use.


I put together a video with instructions on how to make it and tried to be as thorough as possibly (while frustrating the viewer with a bit of off center, out of focus videography!

Watch the DIY and feel free to leave comments and feedback. I know that a couple times I go off screen, Sorry!

 

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A guy trying to get away from his desk so that he can fish, hike, play and just plain be in the outdoors.

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