After I sewed my tut copycat last winter and added a stove jack I've been scheming of a way to make a lightweight stove to go with it. I liked the option of buying the foil from suppliers and making my own but when I crunched the numbers I wasn't really saving all that much from a pre-made one. Since I made my tent for a fraction of what a factory one would cost I wanted to keep that momentum going into my stove build.
What I came up with after researching it as much as I could was copying a stainless bread pan/banquet tray stove I saw somewhere and biting the bullet and buying a 10" by 8' piece of Ti foil from lite outdoors, along with their cables and damper. I held the 6"x13"x4" bread pans together with 6" carriage bolts and wing nuts. I simply cut up an old license plate for the door and rests on the lip of the pans and I can slide for the amount of venting I want. All in all it works very well, is super easy to set up, is a very robust stove body, and cost me around $130.
I can't really say this is a budget project because it did cost a little over $200 in total for the stove and tent but I'm pretty happy with it. The stove itself weighs around 3 lbs according to my digital bathroom scale. The flat top of the stove holds a good size pot and the tent actually nests into the bread pans when I stack them if I take the stove pipe out. I bought the Winco bread pans off amazon for $14 and cut the door opening out with an angle grinder, and drilled the chimney hole with a hole saw. It works great in my backyard and I'm looking forward to taking it back country next week. Once again I apologize for all the sideways pictures, if I knew how to rotate them I would.
What I came up with after researching it as much as I could was copying a stainless bread pan/banquet tray stove I saw somewhere and biting the bullet and buying a 10" by 8' piece of Ti foil from lite outdoors, along with their cables and damper. I held the 6"x13"x4" bread pans together with 6" carriage bolts and wing nuts. I simply cut up an old license plate for the door and rests on the lip of the pans and I can slide for the amount of venting I want. All in all it works very well, is super easy to set up, is a very robust stove body, and cost me around $130.
I can't really say this is a budget project because it did cost a little over $200 in total for the stove and tent but I'm pretty happy with it. The stove itself weighs around 3 lbs according to my digital bathroom scale. The flat top of the stove holds a good size pot and the tent actually nests into the bread pans when I stack them if I take the stove pipe out. I bought the Winco bread pans off amazon for $14 and cut the door opening out with an angle grinder, and drilled the chimney hole with a hole saw. It works great in my backyard and I'm looking forward to taking it back country next week. Once again I apologize for all the sideways pictures, if I knew how to rotate them I would.