Notes On Making Stoves
Note on measurements: They’re all close, as close as I could manage, but still only approximate. For example, 1.5 inches may actually be 1 and 15/32 inches instead of 1 and 16/32 inches instead of 1 and ½ inches, and its metric equivalent may be off by a millimeter. Go with the flow. This is kitchen counter-top stove hacking, not military science. Not even model rocket science.
If you have a metric ruler it’s probably easier to use that since the divisions are smaller, and you only have to multiply or divide by 10 — no juggling between eleven sixteenths and five eighths and three fourths, and deciding which to use, then getting out your calculator and converting to decimals, and so on.
BackpackGearTest.org has a nifty English to metric, metric to English conversion utility that you can use online for free whenever you fancy (http://bit.ly/KmQW30).
