I wanted a neater looking job however, so I got the welder out… Done up tightly these would actually be okay to be left and used on the stove as is. 316 stainless steel pipe, to form the ‘hinge tubes’. I then attached those to the stove using large stainless steel jubilee clips, normally used for securing ventilation work. You could simply bend wire or metal bar and attach but this would leave you with a difficult to pack stove. By allowing the leg/riser pieces to fold away it will allow for a much more pack-friendly and quick-to-deploy stove with no bits to come off and get lost. To achieve this I cut three 7” long pieces of 8mm dia. I wanted to add 3 pieces that would act both as legs, to raise the stove from the floor, and as risers, to keep the pot an inch or so above the top of the stove. Rising flame is like water it will follow the easiest path, and so you need a fair gap between the rim of the stove and the pan. Taking this into mind we wanted to do as little cutting as possible, but the top of the ORDNING as standard wouldn’t allow flame to pass onto the pot very easily. The structure of the ORDNING is strong, but like a car body if you make too may cuts into it, you will significantly weaken the structure. We wanted to create a version that was capable of holding larger pots and pans and also stand well off the ground so as not to scorch it, as Polymath Products strongly believes in the ‘leave no trace’ ethic. It seems there are endless ways of converting the ORDNING into a stove some are very simple. I started with the shorter 13.5cm ORDNING, I believe the taller 18cm one would prove too tall to be stable. A Google search for ‘Ikea Stove’ will bring up many interesting ideas. We simply had to make one during the course of a few lunch breaks… With a much longer life than a tin can (steel) thanks to the stainless steel body and pre-punched ventilation and support wire holes, it was perfect for the job. Since then, the same idea has been repeated many times. Their cutlery stand was never to hold a single spoon instead it was converted into a lightweight wood burning hobo stove. Someone, somewhere walked into an Ikea store and spotted the ORDNING cutlery stand, spun and pressed in nothing less than stainless steel, and costing a mere £1.50 (as of ). However it is done, the idea is to produce a useful outdoor stove, suited to your needs and on a budget. If you’re not such a DIY enthusiast, there are of course a wealth of off-the-shelf options available for portable wood stoves. Many of you may have seen various so-called ‘hobo stoves’: at the lower end, made from tin cans, all the way up to sturdy ammo box or steel wheel hub examples. One part of practising survival and preparedness skills is being resourceful and adapting every-day items into something for a completely different purpose.
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