Today I Am Mostly........

I'd guess a seized / worn pins/guides, but not seen it cause pads worn like that.

 

Ok, here’s the finished camping (multi-fuel) stove I’ve designed and made over the last 3 days of lockdown. My main intent was a gasification twig stove, but as the project progressed, I realised I could get it to work with a spirit penny-stove (also home made) or solid fuel block by having a variable height ash pan/floor. It all folds flat and fits very nicely in a repurposed Tens machine soft case.

So we started a small burn with torn cardboard and twigs and kept feeding it birch twigs around finger width it as it got going. It boils a litre of water after around 10 mins of lighting (must time it next time). And the top grill is perfect for toast as the flames die back to hot coals. The gasification works a treat... you can see the gas burning through the top holes in one of the photos below.

It would have been much quicker and neater had I purchased the pillar drill and bandsaw I’d been offered a few years ago (but I wouldn’t have room in my garage for my bike)... I also measured twice and cut once... unfortunately I restarted the hand sawing job early Tuesday morning and cut one of the “slot together” joints the wrong way round... which meant I had to begger about with plate orientation... leading to the slightly unpaired look of the plates.

The body is 4mm aluminium sheet, the ash pan is cut from an old stainless steel pressure cooker steamer insert. The grill is an old baking cooling rack... anyway, enough blather...

 

Well impressed with that @DCS222
Well done mate

 

make sure you think about being able to starve the burn otherwise some of those rocket stoves rattle through the fuel (usually small diameter twigs or split wood) and you spend all your workshop time feeding it. I would like to see it when it’s done, what materials are you thinking?