On 8/27/2014 5:51 PM, Brent Kinsey wrote:
> Ok Bob,
> Thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole....
>
> After googling and watching numerous videos I had to go to the 7-11 to buy a
bottle shaped beer can (which I won't drink) a different sized energy drink
(which I also won't drink) and a couple of soda cans.  I am now also lamenting
the demise of the Heineken keg shaped can (which I would have drank) even though
I didn't know that I gave a rats behind about can shape, and had no idea they
had quit making that can. (if you are wondering, search out the "penny stove" on
the web...here.  http
://www.jureystudio.com/pennystove/index.html)
>
> I now HAVE TO make some of these: a side burner, a penny stove (self
pressurizing), the penny wood burner, and there are probably a half dozen more
to try.
>
> I did see someone using a press to expand the can and it led me to wonder if
we used an un-opened soda can as the die, lightly greased the inside of the
piece to be expanded then pressed them together...the full can wouldn't dent or
crush and the lubricant should make it easier to twist the expanded piece off.
The expanding jaw chuck from a lathe might work as a spreader if you used a
strip of tin cut to fit around the chuck to even out the round pressure so it
would spread more evenly.
>
> Geez, see what you did to me?
>
> Brent K.  Just slightly north of you in OK.
>
You're welcome, (heheheh)!

Nothing like giving someone a slight push to start them down another 
slippery slope . . .   or rabbit hole.

I tried the press but was notably unsuccessful using a full can as a 
die.  Oh, it pushed into the other piece easily enough but even using 
different oils and vaseline I was unable to separate the two pieces 
without cutting one of them away with scissors.  It was that failure 
that caused me to post the original question.  If you try this, don't 
forget to punch a hole in the bottoms so that you don't get an air lock.

I'm going to try the one that Peter in Perth posted the Vimeo link for.  
It seems easy enough to do and promises a very good perimeter flame.

BobH
looking for some rain a little bit South of Brent K.