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03 May, 2007




Homebrew Protos Plant Oil Stove




After reading with interest all about the Protos plant oil stove and seeing the potential in the burner I took it upon myself to recreate the burner part of the unit.




Some things I changed for simplicity are on the vapourising element I only have one feed from the oil supply, the other end I have capped. My test unit is constructed from Micro bore 8mm copper tube, unsuitable for long term use but easy from a fabrication point of view.




I managed to create a 0.5mm hole by reaming out the tube with a drill bit and then pecking through the final copper tube with a sharp nail.




I placed my Protos burner into my Turk burner unit previously fabricated and connected it to my oil supply via a peristaltic pump at 0.5L per hour delivery.




Igniting was achieved with the help of a propane blow torch, this easily got the unit up to working temperature.




My Protos clone is in (Alpha) testing right now and I will bring some more details on how it performs in due course.

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Written at Thursday, May 03, 2007 by Andy Mahoney.
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