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Beautiful piece of work, Russ.
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Edit: I took a look at the link provided for stainless wick. Looks like it's just stainless aircraft cable.
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Well, well. That worked too good. Way too good! I unraveled six or seven pieces of #12 stranded copper wire and then twisted them back into a 1/4" diameter cable that would fit into the alcohol burner. For whatever reason, the alcohol wicked up the wire, spilled over onto the top of the burner lid and then onto the wood base. Before I knew it, I had one heck of a fire going. I need to play around with the whole thing some more in a setting where I'm not so likely to set the house on fire.rmac wrote: Might be worth experimenting by just twisting together a bunch of wire to approximate the Kontax wick.
Yes, I've seen that mentioned here before. My problem is that I've never before gone through the exercise of taking a video, getting it from the phone (or whatever) to a computer, editing it, and then uploading it to the internet. Guess it's time to learn all that so I don't wind up being the last guy on the planet who doesn't have a YouTube channel.Harold wrote: Videos can't be posted on the board, but they can be linked if posted elsewhere. Youtube, as an example.
Thank you.Harold wrote: Beautiful piece of work, Russ.
Well, not quite. As it turns out, the alcohol wasn't "wicking up the wire", it was being pushed up through the wire by pressure building inside the burner as everything heated up. I put a little vent hole in the lid and that solved the problem. The wire wick seems to work really well so far. The burner makes an almost invisible blue flame with no smoke and plenty of heat to run the engine. And of course the wire itself doesn't burn at all. All good.rmac wrote: For whatever reason, the alcohol wicked up the wire ...
Assuming it's wool felt, yeah, it would work, although wool doesn't burn well. It would present some of the same problems that cotton does, so there's likely little benefit in trying. I am VERY familiar with wool and how it burns, thanks to having processed wool carpets to extract precious metal values.
RSG wrote: Very cool ...
Thanks, guys. pete, you're right about the slippery slope. In my brief career making these things I seem to discover potential improvements about 3/4 of the way through the construction process, after it's too late to actually incorporate them. Right now I have the piston/cylinder assembly left over from attempt #2, and it only makes sense do something with it, perhaps with a bigger flywheel.pete wrote: ... and shiny
Experience is something you get right after you really needed it!