More Tent Stove Progress

I am delighted that Tim Tinker has been squirreling away at improving the design and functionality of (his) tiny tent stoves of which he has designed so many. His latest foray involves miniaturising an oil (or smudge) burner for heating a tent utilising a a tiny Cavendish & Harvey fruit drop tin which must be only about 1 1/2″ high by 4″ wide – 40 x 100mm (if that). The whole thing weighs a mere 134 grams.

I confess that the idea would not have occurred to me because of a variety of (imaginary) fears such as self-immolation, smoke, explosions etc but the irrepressible Tim has forged on past all these obstacles and has made very substantial progress already with a ‘batch’ stove which outputs an hour of tent-warming heat for an oil consumption of 120 grams!

Inside the stove:

He has also experimented with a 15 gram drip feed (so far ‘spectacularly’ – interesting term – unsuccessfully) but which promises to deliver a night’s heat from around 1 litre of used cooking or engine oil which you could have perhaps planted a 20 litre drum of in your chosen camp-site (perhaps via canoe) in the summertime against the need for heat on a winter adventure of several day’s (night’s) duration.

Just look at that heat output:

I eagerly await a successful version of this drip-feed idea and will think about it myself betimes. I will also (if I can find time) have a go at making my own oil burner just to see how it works. This will have to come after having a second go at making a chimney which I have some further ideas for.

It really roars. Imagine heating your tent with a little beauty like this:

You can read about it in more detail here: Micro Heater for a Small Tent.