How to make an Arizona penny can alcohol stove

Hello everyone, welcome back to jiu-jitsu. Today I come to you with an interesting video. I want to talk about how to

make

a

penny

tin

stove

, but I'm going to go one step further and

make

a

penny

. You can cook on steroids stay with me I hope you enjoy it friends, let's get started. The first thing I want to talk about is the type of cans you would normally use. This is the type of can I use for my standard can

stove

, but today. We're going to use these Arizona tea cans. I like them because if you look at their diameter, they're a little larger and the aluminum they make these cans out of is a little thicker, so that's where I'm at. the term soda can, penny can, stove on steroids, so again I'll start with two cans of Arizona tea.

I'm going to need a pair of scissors, a small block of wood, a thumbtack, and of course I need a penny, this 1964 Penny's. and if you get your penny, make sure your penny is nineteen eighty-two or more, don't get anything from 1983 to a current penny because in 1983 they started taking out most of the copper and converting it into most of the penny. zinc, so make sure it is at least 1982. I'll also need a small pair of needle nose pliers today. A little fuel and we'll use our fuel. We will use heat today. You can also use denatured and other

alcohol

.

The fuel you can use is 91% or higher isopropyl

alcohol

and last but not least I have a small pipe wrap installation kit or more specifically some fiberglass insulation. Now we won't need as much. I just bought this for about 3 dollars. at my local hardware store, so we're going to need some insulation. Now let's go ahead and get started. Okay, to light this stove, the first thing I'm going to do is take my block of wood and I'm going to take my first can and I'm going to place it right next to that block of wood and I'm going to hold my pin right here and I'm going to slowly spin this can around which It's my plan right now.

I'm trying to mark a line on the diameter of the can and it's not like I'm going to use the pin to cut it. I'm just marking a line if you don't have a pin or should I say if I prefer to use it as a marker or something, you can use it for this step as well, but I like to use the pin so you can see that I have the line around it. I'm going to do this with both cans like this. I just want to check and see that that line is marked on all sides.

You can see it well. Now what I want to do is take one of the cans and I want to make a hole right in the center of the can with my push. pin and I'm going to use my little block of wood for lack of a better term like a hammer like a little hammer or mallet and I'm going to make about five holes here and you can see I'm twisting the thumbtack to let it loose just pushing that baby in nothing too significant. You can see I have a little number five like a dice five.

Now I'm going to take my little pointer that I was using and hopefully take out this center hole and make it a little bit bigger, so I'll hit it with my block of wood, not too hard. I don't want to go too crazy, so I'm just making this center hole a little bigger so my fuel can go through. You need to push the pin through the holes again, you know, because after filling that hole a little bit bigger, it might make them smaller, but that's what you want in the middle at this point. I'm going to start with my holes around the outside edge.

I can see that the can has a little edge right there and right there where that pin falls that's where I want to start making my holes so I'm going to use my little hammer because like I said these cans are a little bit thicker. I'm going to make four holes to start, I'm just going to go there right in the center between these two, something like that, these are going to be our ports where our flames are going to come out, so there's my first four holes, now what I'm going to do. I'm going to make four more holes right in the center of all these holes, so I'm going to put one there, one there, one there, and one there, so let me go ahead and do that.

I'm trying to make this video. pretty quick, I don't want to bore you and I don't want the video to be too long, so be patient. I'm doing my best to try to find the center between all the firsts now that we have a total of eight holes now I'm going to do that one more time. I'm going to go to the center between all of these holes, so this is going to be number nine right here, there are nine tens right here. I have to use this wood. log eleven because the aluminum in this is a little bit thicker than that regular soda can twelve will go here thirteen fourteen fifteen there and the last one will be sixteen here this if you notice this is the same number of holes that I use in my standard soda can , penny can, still 16 holes, look now we're done with our thumbtack for now and our block of wood, we'll put them back together and set them aside, okay, from here I'm going to Grab my scissors and I'll find the line I made.

I'll go up to the top of the can and make a big cut. I'll get pretty close to the line I'm making. a grill right now nothing too crazy without one side and from here I will now make my thin cut along that line the whole outline of this cut should be very straight so take your time on this cut try to do it like Clean up as much as you can, you don't want a lot of jagged edges on this cut. If you have that, you're going to have a chance of your can splitting nicely, so there you have it, we're going to do the same thing with this can. there's our line, we're going to go up towards the top of the can, we just cut a little crazy, what the water slide looks like, it had a little bit of tea in it or nothing at all, so let's do our nice precise cut now, so we use the pin only to mark. the camera and if you're watching this video and you want to follow along, you can do it with a standard soda can, okay, the techniques don't change or anything like that.

The main thing is that you want everything to be clean and pretty, so I have two. pieces that are the same, one of them has the ventilation holes at the top and the other at this point. I'm going to take my needle nose pliers and find an imaginary line on them. It would be nice if it had Okay, you can see where the discoloration ends right there or something, so I'm going to try to bite it in the same place each time and I'm just going to adjust it so it goes up an inch, go up ninj. and I'm giving it these little adjustments and I'm going to go down the same depth in the bite, we're just going up an inch at a time, it doesn't have to be an inch exactly, it's just more or less a little bit, it doesn't have to be perfect or anything like that, so when I'm done I have something that looks like this.

The reason I need this is because when I put the pieces together I want them to fit together nice and easy and this helps make that easier. Okay, now it's the top part of this project where we want to grab some fiberglass insulation, so I'm going to open up your stuff and grab some. I'll try to see, I don't know. maybe something like that baby, I'm just going to cut those things out and I'm going to pack this inside this background. I may have gotten a little bit too much, but we'll get to that here in a minute, so just kind of rolling those things up, I'm just going to pack these things into the can, what this will do is this will serve as a wick so that when we put it together our stove, when we put our liquid in there, Absorb that liquid so that if we drop the snow and tip it over, we won't have fuel going everywhere.

Now I'm going to put this top part with the vents right on top of it and I'm going to slowly tighten it now. be careful here if you have your thumb here and if it came loose this top can could cut your thumb so be very careful in this step. I like to go back to my block of wood and just getting that thing in place doesn't have to be something as crazy as this. Look, that turned out well, we don't have to play it completely crazy or anything like that. We just want to make sure everything is straight so that we have the same height on both sides, it looks like these sides are a little bit tall so I'm going to tap a little bit more just trying to look.

I'm looking here and I'm measuring and looking and visualizing it now if you have a little bit of excess metal just twist it with your thumb we're just bending it in and that will seal around the bottom of the can then take your block of wood and just use it. that as a tool to help thin that stuff out what this will do is help seal the bottom up and it will hold the cans together now my friends it's our penny cans cooking on steroids okay you can see I put an old piece of tile from when I did the tiles in my house.

It had a small piece of waste. I keep filling it. I'm using that tile as a barrier because I obviously don't want to burn my table now. You're probably wondering what I can do to put out this flame when it's over. If you have another can of the same size, you can grab your scissors while you wait for the fuel to absorb to the bottom of the can. you can see there's a little bit where the paint ends, just cut it right along that line first like I did before. I'm going to do that to remove most of the aluminum now I'm going to cut right like I said where the ends of the paint come as close to that as possible.

This doesn't have to be very precise or anything like that. What we're doing is building a little top to cover it and this will help. when we want to turn off the stove you can see it's a little bit harder to cut that high because we're right on that curve, but take your time and you'll get there, the aluminum feels a little bit thicker here too, so you have something like this which will rest right on top of the stove like this and that will put out the flame, so we'll keep it close and continue to fill it if you spill a little bit of fuel. around the base of the stove is fine, you can see that it is not taking more fuel, that tells us that it is full, take my cloth and I am going to clean any excess that is around, but if there is excess around here, I want to keep that, which is good, good fuel that will help set up this stove, let's go ahead and turn this thing on.

I can feel the heat even though you can't see it, it's on. I'm going to turn off these lights behind me, turn this off on high, okay, and I turned it on, let's go. Go ahead and throw our penny right on top, what that penny is going to do is close off the ability of the alcohols or the fuels to escape through that hole and the result of that is to create pressure that will help us burn this stove now. It is in the priming step right now, once these flames and things around the bottom go out the stove will be primed and ready to go.

I'm going to bring this camera angle down here for you guys to see, you can see how. quickly that stove is prepared, it's already prepared, so it's practically ready, practically ready, it puts out a big flame, well, everyone, I want to thank you for watching my video today on my Arizona Tea Penny Can stove. I hope you found something good and useful. today's information from this video, feel free, as always, to like this video, share this video, leave comments below if you are interested too and if you like the type of content you see on my channel, subscribe .

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