Hey Reonauts!
What a beautiful day!!!
Woke up, had coffee checked e-mail, posted one maybe two posts on the forum, and began the living in the sticks (yes, I live in BF Egypt) random power outage.
I was able to catch a moving on my fully charged laptop, take a very nice nap, and when the power came on for ten minutes 3 hours in to it, I was able to place a bowl of soup in the microwave before it went back out.
Now sitting there with a bowl of still cold soup in the microwave, I am determined to get it cooked. After all who in their right mind would drive to a diner ten minutes away hoping they had power?
SO, I took an old can of AXE deodorant, and remembered my years of YouTube training, and carefully cut the can in to three pieces and discarded the center piece, squeezed the inverted top in to the bottom, and began making holes in it with my trusty fully charged cordless drill.
Presto and alakhazam and what ever else you say, I now had a working alcohol camp stove. with in minutes, my soup was in a pan and cooking on my front 3 season porch. Just as It reached a smooth simmering boil, and was done. The power came back on.
What a great day! I always wanted to make an alcohol stove!!
This project even though I was using saws and sharp metals were abound around me, used absolutely no band aids, and no band aids were injured in this process.