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Just a suggestion: glue two lids together facing in opposite directions so when you are done cooking you can screw a jar on to cover the copper coil to prevent evaporation. That way you can store it for future use with the Alcohol in the wick jar.

A guitar string works great for getting the wick into the copper tube, very flexible and very sturdy.

I'd run a fishing line into the copper tube. Tie it to the wick so I could pull it through. Fishing line will quickly go through the tube. I really enjoyed your video. You are an excellent teacher!

One of the best instructional, to the point videos I have seen.

The sand tip is worth every minute of this video.

I love how everything isn't exact. So many people get so caught up in making everything fit perfectly with exact measurements that don't really matter to the end product. This is great!

So simple, but it's brilliant. Efficient, small and useful. Great share.!

Very clever... good to have in a time of no electricity, or camping or cooking indoors... Thank you for the great insights...

That's 1/4" copper refrigeration tubing and the other one is a 1/2" x 3" nipple. Cool project!!

JB just on the bottom works just fine. Also, if you don't have sand, sugar works fine. That's 1/4in copper if anyone is curious. ANY jar works fine. Any fuel works fine. Just sealed.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for a neat little video!!! It was presented well and made it look easy, especially for beginner DYI enthusiasts. Only basic tools required. Something I've found to help, (I keep on on my hobby-bench), take an old ball-point pen apart and save the bottom section. Straighten out a Large paperclip and, with needle-nose pliers, bend a small loop in one end, tiny enough to easily go down inside the ink-pen barrell, and lightly, flatten the tip, on the other end. Mix up some five minute JB weld and, with a popsicle stick, fill the ink-pen barrell up. Then insert the straightened out. Paper-clip. Use the old ink-pen refill, to push it out the other end till at least 1 1/2" is out there, and clean JB weld off the wire. Put the glue back in the barrell, that got shoved out when the refill came back out and screw the clip end back on with a little JB weld on it too...and forget it over night. (since it's inside, sometimes it takes longer to harden well.) This will be about the right size to do little tight pushing and probing hobby operations. It will also aid in installing your wick. ((A quick version would be to just open a large paperclip, almost up, and use the bent part for a handle, and lightly flatten the tip. Not as comfortable, but will still work). THANKS AGAIN. One quick question...is that RUBBING ALCOHOL you're using or ETHYL ALCOHOL. (You went by the camera too fast with the bottle label, for me to see the type of fuel.) I GOT TO BUILD ME ONE OF THESE.

This has probably been mentioned already, but you can substitute frozen water for the sand. Tightly crimp one end of the copper then fill with water and crimp the remaining end. Freeze it and bend it to whatever shape you need. I have built many radio transmitters over the past 6 decades using this method to make power amplifier tank coils. Nice video! Thanks for sharing. --Mick

Great job on the small portable stove! Will be nice to take along ice fishing during the winter!

Leave the metal from the drill hole intact It gives the JB WELD more surface area to hold onto JB WELD will cover up the sharp metal

Thanks for sharing. I’m going to try with a wider jar and three aligned copper coils just enough to carry a pot. I want to use it as a mini stove. Wish you the Best! A lot of Blessings.

Its a perfect idea for camping purposes for a cup of coffee /tea. Reusable refrigerant copper tubing is also good material. Its only a matter of innovation for people who explore the future.

They're all unique in their own build. But they're all functional! Awesome build I loved it!

Nice presentation. FYI: I used gauze strips and spun them tightly using my drill then pulled them through with a fine wire...Works great.

I love this little stove. It looks like a great way to do some covert cooking in a SHTF situation!

love the idea, love the concept, love how you build it, and most of the top... love the way you deliver it! it's sounds waaaaaay easy and fun! superb!

Just learned something new today. Thanks for sharing.

That's so cool! I'm impressed and I don't mean that sarcastically either.

Now that's a good idea. It looks pretty simple and effective. The cost is also probably rather low. I think I could make one easily.

WOW THATS FRICKIN SMART THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING

You should soak the wicks in alcohol before twisting them up the tube. Seems like that would make it much easier. Also, you could use the end of a toothpick to seal the hole when not in use.

I am really excited to make some of these, using your techniques, as well as some suggested by viewers.

Great job I loved the simplicity and the depth of explanation I just watched my first video and subscribed

Awesome video mate. Thanks for such a wicked idea and project.

wow what an awesome tutorial! Thanks for the lesson, I really enjoyed it.

Had one of these when I was a boy, (I admit it was shop bought) it was made of brass and ran on ordinary petrol, great little camping stove provided you took some sensible precautions like not using it inside the tent lol. The basic layout was identical to this with the exception that it had a primer dimple underneath the burner coil which you filled with a spot of petrol and lit to preheat and prime the jet. Thanks for the vid.

This is the same type of stove I used in a boyscouts 4 week adventure. It was a Philmont type of summer camp. We rode horses but we backpacked everywhere. They resupply the meals every week. Haven't seen these stoves since. Mine was probably from the 50s when I was using it in the 80s. It was copper and brass.

Very neat build and very simple....thanks for sharing. Very well presented too,

I like to prime mine by flipping over two times real quick. Heat from auto parts store or denatured alcohol works allot better, you don't end up with the 10, 20, 30% water in the bottom. I took a big open channel aluminum computer heat sink and put over one of my smaller ones and it made a great little heater. Of course always do this in a big aluminum turkey pan. You can put a big ceramic pot over the top and it radiates allot of heat.

Excellent design and 2 which I have made both work great . Added a small amount of fiberglass house insulation inside the jar which helps to keep the fuel from "sloshing" around . Thank you once again Iridium 242 and have an excellent New Year !

That's a great little stove! Thanks for the video.

I bought a Henry Golden Boy about a year ago,and You guys captured My excitement and joy in your video! I LOVE this rifle...the "Evil Roy" is next on My list! Thanks😎

great idea I have three in a triangle and rest my pan on top! ps I soldered mine.

I employed your idea but instead of using the "Kerr or Ball" tin plate lid, I used a piece of copper sheet and sweat soldered the copper coil burner to the copper plate lid. once cooled down, I made a thin gasket using high temp silicone (2,000 degree rated) used to seal cast iron stoves and BBQ'S. Turned out great. thanks for sharing your project. Kind regards! Eric Dee.

This is my next DIY project for the weekend! Thanks for sharing this!👍

Thank you,I didn't know I could do this,and now I will.

This reminds me of a project I did as a kid where I made a similar coil of copper and used a tea candle to power a little boat in water. The coil and candle kept a flow of water that propelled the boat. You mention that the drill bit is acting like a punch and leaving the metal burrs behind. With the issues you had drilling the lid... You actually should use a punch. The jobber will work fine as well but both require a hard enough backing material so that the pressure you apply to the cutting tool does not deform your lid. Also, start with a smaller drill bit.

This is a very good idea of getting the fuel to the heated coil through a wick rather with the compressed air as we used to do with the old Primus! Rather than drilling the two holes with an exact drill, it would provide more support to the coil if one uses a smaller drill then with a tapered wooden screw, push the taper slowly in the hole till the extra material is burred/ bent over till the diameter is correct. The extra material left bent over in the hole will give better vertical support to the coil. If the coil is soldered or glued in there would be a better joint.

The idea is perfect&simple as well! I used the part of FIRED OFF WATER SPIRAL HEATER - just cut of a part of it, remove the wire+sand from inside, and you have the copper tube already bent.

oh my god I used to use rubbing alcohol to heat my bedroom when I was super poor. I built all kinds of crazy ways to control and boost the radiant heat. best one i ever made I called the "fire flower," it was basically a perforated flower bulb shape with petals, made entirely from folded aluminum foil. The pedals would help hold and control the flames and the perforations in the bulb allowed the fumes to come out in a measured manner. It was SUPER effective, but of course had to be rebuilt every 2 weeks or so. This is amazing to me

Thanks Dude.... Im gonna make it one for me, it will help me alot

Great video . Im gonna make a few of these .

I loved this video thank you! You're really great at teaching. My husband and I are going to try to make one.

Your videos are awesome man! Very informative, and we'll edited.

Ths is really neat. I have some 1/4" copper tubing and JB Weld in the garage so I am going to put them to good use. Like the comments about improving the design - adding a reverse cap so we can seal the jar when not in use and heating with a bottle cap. To that end, I plan to weld a small container of some sort under the coil so it can be filled with fuel and lit to heat up the coils when starting the unit since I doubt I will be carrying a torch with me. That is how we primed the burners of the old kerosene stoves we had back home.

My first camping stove was a cheap POS based on this principle. It was made of some kind of brass-like metal, had detachable L-shaped pot supports like upside-down legs, and was designed for white gas. Gave it a brief test and it seemed OK. First trip out, it developed a case of thermal runaway, shooting 8-inch green (copper) flames out either side of the coil, right past my little camp pan. I thought it was going to kill us or burn the park down. Scary experience shutting it down too. Never used it again.

I like this, I'm going to have to build myself one

This is awesome for camping and maybe heating a small space! Great video to attention to detail... I had to subscribe after this! Thank you! BTW... Happy Holidays! 🎄🎇🎆

You can also use frozen water in the tube also instead of sand.

I'm very into survival hacks I really like this idea !!!!!!

A true craftsman! Way to go thinking outside of the box! 👍💯

I live on a ranch with a few hundred fruit trees. We always have a huge amount of fruit loss to birds and insects like wasps, so I have decided to make burning ethanol from the discarded fruit. I could use a burner like this instead of spending money on propane. In fact, I would like to try to use a few to heat a small room with the inverted clay pot heater idea.

You can also use a strand from a cotton mop, they will stand up to the heat. Just don't use a synthetic mop strand as they melt and plug the tube.

Neat stove bud but the tip about the sand AWSOMELY GENIUS!! Rock on! 👍👍👊

what a great project .. I think i might be trying one of those for sure .. thanks

Pretty awesome. Well done clear and concise words. Easy to follow directions. Thanks I will be making a few of these as well.

Really nice little stove.

Awesome device ! I’m for sure going to make one ! You could set it inside a # 10 can or metal coffee can to give you something to set a pan or pot on. It would need to be open on both ends and have air holes in the side! A step drill works extremely well on thin metal ! It won’t grab like a regular drill bit !

I enjoyed the video and this would be perfect to be used in a tent stove but I would also like to be able to get this excited about making something like this. You are blessed with a great personality~!!

Awesome project Thanks for sharing your videos with us!

Similar alcohol burners had been produced commercially in Japan for school laboratory use and for mountaineering. I prefered to use my alcohol burner with three loops for mountaineering over gas/gasoline/paraffin oil burners because of reliability. Later imported Trangia burner expelled them from the market.

you just totally inspired a new project. awesome video and stove q. have you experimented with different tube sizes containers more loops holes etc?

Awesome, I’m headed to Walmart to start my project, Thanks for your video

Excellent! I’m a canner & have these 1/2 pint jars. Great idea, simple & efficient! Only down side is glass jar, easy to break but size of it makes easier to protect if packed properly.

Very interesting and very simple. Thanks.

very well done and something I have never made before or thought of before! A diagram would be very useful here at the opening of the video.

Good job. Thanks for the idea.

I really like your happy disposition

Iridium 242 Dear are many good videos on how to make this stove. What makes your tutorial special is your fine personality, and giving the viewer confidence that he or she can make this stove, and they don"t have to be perfect with the details. If you are not a professional teacher, then i believe you would be an excellent mentor!! Thank you for a job well done. Bruce the swimmer New Rochelle N.Y.

Definitely making one of these. Its going to keep my fingers warm while I'm in the tree stand this year.

thats really cool.. i like that, really nice idea.

Very good video.. Thank you for Producing and uploading it.

Sand tip is great, I would say drill it out while still in the vice it would make it easier, if you use copper fridge pipe you would get a thicker wall and it measures at 3/8 Imperial or 9mm Metric Great video

Brilliant idea! I actually suffer from mental health problems and you have got me all excited to try this project! So glad I happened upon your channel. As a big thank you I subscribed, too!! Thank you for making me feel good, I haven't felt too good in quite a while!! ☺️🤗❤️👍🔥

I love your keltec sticker or sign on your wall

JBW is good cars and engines get hot. I once repaired an oven and it was great. I used it 3 years before i moved from that apartment. Going strong when i left.

excellent video sir, +1 for the Keltec sticker.

If you don't have sand you could put water in the tube and freeze it. This is used for bending brass instrument tubing.

To cool .loved it . outstanding. Am going to make one tomorrow.. Thanks ...

Love your little stoves awesome ideas

This is really cool because you can use this as a standard alcohol burner for chemistry type experiments or even micro-biological work. Moreover, if you pre-cut the wick to the length of the copper tubing, and then run it through the tube before making your bends; it will eliminate some of your final steps in the production process. One of the other things that I like about this burner is that not only does it give off a good amount of heat but the flame is not as bright as an ordinary flame from a candle and therefore it gives you a tactical advantage when light discipline is important. Overall, it is a very useful tool. :-)

Badass, thanks for the great content.

WOW thank you for this video, I WILL be making quite a few of these for my family and friends who share prepping ideas with me., again thank you!

I enjoyed your video. It's like going to a friends house to see what he is up to and coming away with plans to copy what he made. Well done.

This is perfect for hunting or fishing, instead of packing the stove around, or building a bigger fire. Coffee, finger warmer and whatnot.

Neat trick! I have a multi-fuel stove that does a similar thing vaporizing fuel, just with a metered flow instead of a wick. It's cleanest with white gas, but will work with kero/deisel/jet, lamp oil, even most petroleum solvents (stay clear of fumes!), and alcohols. For yours, therefore, I imagine you're not limited to alcohol, and predict kerosene will work very well in there, albeit with a bit of soot. Please do be very careful if you try anything more volatile / lower flash point/ higher vapour pressure than alcohol - and gasoline is _right out!_ Mine is an old old MSR Whisperlight, if you're wondering. Very light, very reliable, fully user serviceable. I also love that the fuel is manually pressurized in its companion bottle at run time, stored unpressurized, and needs no consumable fuel bottles. For some fuels there's a wick needed for the pilot burn (your "prime") and for some emergency fuels like alcohol or some solvents, the fuel pump valve and component would need to be serviced afterwards, but burn it sure will.

Cool!! I'm going to make some! TY

This is a cool thing to make and have around if you need to keep warm or cooking.im going to try it out myself if i get stuck somewhere out in the Snow in a Car over night. Thank you for your time in showing Us how to make this.

Great vid. I feel like I am in school listening to my shop teacher. lol

I personally would love to just go into Home Depot or Lowe's and have a copper wire already cut and designed for me. This way if I do not want the extra material, it keeps it quick and simple for several different types of projects. Cool idea.

This was a great video! Using your directions with a couple modification, I built three stoves to use as decorative tabletop heaters by adding a small aluminum half-cylinder about 8" tall JB Welded to the backside of the jar lid with another jar lid capping off the top to serve as a reflector, and a mantle made of 5" tall steel mesh rolled and crimped to sit on top of the jar lid, inside the reflector. I JB welded a chili can lid to the top of the mantle as a cap. Once the copper loop is lit, the mantle heats up and glows red, becoming an IR heater which amplifies and concentrates the heat produced. I used the muffler repair version of JB Weld since it's supposed to be more thermally resistant, but that's probably not necessary at these temperatures.

You can also use compression fittings on the copper pipe instead of messing around with JB Weld.

That is a cool little stove, I haven't seen that before.

thank you for your time and effort YAH-WEY

Just discovered yer channel,love it and thanks for the cool video👍👍