My first home build kelly kettle

[andy202wr]

Took me bout 2 1/2 hours. Boils 1L in 2min 25sec.

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Can and bottle from pound land. Base is a sweetcorn tin and heavy gauge 1/4" chicken wire with a penny stove for the heat. I have drilled holes around the base to alow the heat to rise inside the tin.

[JEEP]

Quite awesome!

[Silverback]

Oh yes we llike that:happy-clapping:.....I sense a new project coming on :D

South Sheffield Andy....not a millon miles away from me pal.

[paul standley]

Hi Andy... nice one, glad it worked for you. Did you try using the sweetcorn tin 'full height' with a hole for air intake like on mine here ?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYOYfGPn9Tw

Paul.

[andy202wr]

Hi Paul, Just half a tin, creased at the first ripple to mask the sharp edge's, no hole. Seams to work ok.

[Adam Savage]

Hi Andy... nice one, glad it worked for you. Did you try using the sweetcorn tin 'full height' with a hole for air intake like on mine here ?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYOYfGPn9Tw

Paul.

You should have pattented the concept mate lol


Hi Paul, Just half a tin, creased at the first ripple to mask the sharp edge's, no hole. Seams to work ok.

Great work there Andy. Looks very well constructed. :)

[Bernie]

It looks to me like a bit of flame is escaping the chimney because your chimney is on a wire frame base. If you could enclose the wire frame base then I think more flames would rise inside the chimney, closer to the bottle, which would/should be more efficient I think. This of course all coming from someone who's yet to make one! ;)

[Adam Savage]

It looks to me like a bit of flame is escaping the chimney because your chimney is on a wire frame base. If you could enclose the wire frame base then I think more flames would rise inside the chimney, closer to the bottle, which would/should be more efficient I think. This of course all coming from someone who's yet to make one! ;)

I noticed that too, but didn't think about the efficiency part. At 2.25minute for a 1L boil, it seems pretty efficient already. If you didn't want to go the whole hog with enclosing the fire box, you could go for a fine mesh. This would still allow oxygen to retain it's presence, as well as contain the flames.

[andy202wr]

I removed the wind break to take the photo. The flame go straight up when the burner is protected from the wind.

[nat110732]

Hi,
This looks the business mate! is that just a common and garden alu water bottle? never boiled water in one of these, does the coating inside(are they anodised?) the bottle stay where it is ? sorry for the dumb-ass questions but i really like the looks of this project

nat

[andy202wr]

Hi,
This looks the business mate! is that just a common and garden alu water bottle? never boiled water in one of these, does the coating inside(are they anodised?) the bottle stay where it is ? sorry for the dumb-ass questions but i really like the looks of this project

nat

The bottle and the tin are both from that great store "Pound Land". As of now the coating has'nt come away.