I ran across this clip a couple of years ago and made two windscreens. Both are still solid for use with my remote canister stove and I get out about 60 times a year. The size and weight is obviously negligible and they work like a charm. A big thanks for this one CampGear.
Finally! This is what I've been looking all over RUclips for! GREAT thoughtful, simple and detailed, economical craftsmanship! Thank you so much. I just bought a little iron rocket stove that's about a foot and a half tall. The taller folding metal windscreens I had seen on Amazon years ago seemed nowhere to be found. Who needs to spend the money anyway, I can do a custom version of this and it'll work great!
Hey! Thanks @iahelcathartesaura3887. I'm glad you found this video. I'm still using this $1 wind shield to this day. Here are my thoughts 13 years (?!) later: ruclips.net/video/j3uj5xJiVtQ/видео.html
Hey! Thanks @DeborahThird-og1uo. I'm glad you found this video. I'm still using this $1 wind shield to this day. Here are my thoughts 13 years (?!) later: ruclips.net/video/j3uj5xJiVtQ/видео.html
Clamp the aluminum between lumber pieces for drilling safety as well as significant reduction in burrs. You can also make V cuts with a utility knife and bend the resulting tab in. Lastly, cut some V or square notches along the edge for ventilation instead of inboard holes.
Hey! Thanks @djjoeykmusic. I'm glad you found this video. I'm still using this $1 wind shield to this day. Here are my thoughts 13 years (?!) later: ruclips.net/video/j3uj5xJiVtQ/видео.html
They sell pretty much all the tools you used at my local dollar tree store. But I think I can use some beefier pieces like the drill bits I have are about 1/2" or so and maybe some heavier wire so it holds together better. Plus mine won't be so tall. I think I need to go camping now....
Love the diy stuff that seems to be particularly rich in the alcohol stove arena. Not a bad idea for $1. Only thing I'd add would be a double roll for the wire to keep it really locked in, and perhaps a little more rigidity, but in a strong wind, wouldn't this pretty much blow around? Especially with it so tall? Though the height would be good for the cold.
CampGearTV, my friend's camp stove blew up last weekend. She was using a small propane cooker w/ wings on the screw top to hold her pot. Her wind shield had no holes. How far down can this shield go? to the ground? Would you follow up on how to apply the shield so the bottled gas canister doesn't get too hot and explode. Thanks.
Apologies for a long delayed response. If you're using a canister stove, the canister should be outside the windshield. If that's not an option (which it wouldn't be in the case you mention) then you'd need to find a balance between shielding wind on one side and allowing air / cooling on the other. Another option would be for more and bigger vent holes near the bottom. The heat of the stove would naturally draw in air from the bottom air holes and keep the canister cool. Above all, be careful!
That's a great idea. I've been planning to revisit this video and a grommet hole maker sounds like the perfect solution. That said, the $1 wind screen I made in this video (13 years ago... hard to believe!) still works for me to this day. I revisit it in this video: ruclips.net/video/j3uj5xJiVtQ/видео.html
saved me some 9 quid there. i knew aluminium would do the trick but didn't think of oven liner - was wondering what I could reinforce kitchen foil with. your idea is perfect! could also skip the wire in the seam and just use a metal cable-tie to hold the two ends together, but that's just my extreme laziness i guess :D
This is a very nice instructional video on how to make a windscreen. I've been searching how to make windscreens and this seems to be the best. Can you instead use a hole puncher to create the holes? I am a girl and I don't really own any power tools lol. I mean i can ask my dad, but the only thing available to me at the moment is a hole puncher :)
a hole puncher would definitely work! you just need to ensure you punch enough of holes as the stove needs a lot of oxygen, just not string wind. not enough air in and you might have a poorly burning stove, or worse, an explosion!
I've made some wind screens using a cardboard box. I cut it to size then rap it with aluminum tape. It cost more then your method but works well and is light weight and you won't have to worry about cutting your fingers. It will rap around your cook pot and secure it with a rubber band.
inside your cooking pot. rolling the windscreen makes a cylindrical shape, just like a traditionnal cylindrical cup. the one on the video might be too high for a minimalist so you can make it shorter
I've just cut up an old aluminium water bottle as a wind screen with tent pegs to keep it in place, it doesn't get crumpled in the backpack and still weighs almost nothing, even if you have to buy the bottle, you can get them for buttons these days.
CampGearTV I use different pots depending on what I'm doing, though 90% of the time I use solid fuel (Hexi's) which are lower to the ground, you might have to rethink this for many gas type stoves as they're higher up. I usually just have it a little further away (4/5 inches) so I don't have to worry about air holes. I picked up a new aluminium litre bottle for £1 ($1.50?) today they're so cheap at present, you will have to burn off the plastic coating on the inside on an open fire before you use it.
Andy Grassia What @MrBac00 said. A coat hanger is too rigid, IMO. You need something nice and flexible and easy to work with. I've been using this wind shield since before this video was made (four years ago?!?) and I haven't felt the need for more rigid wire.
+Nunsweepit421 I've never had that happen and I've used mine a couple of hundred times. If you use a remote canister stove this is the perfect windscreen.
+CampGear TV My stoves run plenty hot and it's never happened. The screen gets hot but doesn't melt. Makes sense considering these are made for cooking in an oven. :)
More fun, and a sense of accomplishment when you're able to make it yourself. Perhaps I missed something, but I was always under the impression that primary intent of survival, and woodsman-ship was self sufficiency and independence ???
I'm late (SUPER late) but not at all... it wraps around my pot and fits inside the stuff sack. I revisit it in this video: ruclips.net/video/j3uj5xJiVtQ/видео.html
Not really a dollar, how much is 18 gauge wire: $ 3.78 Oven liner is around $3-6 Box cutter: at least $6 Drill might as well not even bring up a drill coz by then you could have afforded several windscreens. Screw this I'm just going to have my friend block the flame until the water boils.
Amazing! There ways to accomplish this without spending more than $1. Stop to think, my friend.... You don't have to have a drill and drill bit.There are a number ways to put a hole in that thin metal. You don't have to use a square to measure. Any straight edge will do. The roll of wire isn't absolutely needed, if you can't scrounge up a scrap piece of wire. Just put a 2nd fold in the metal for extra stability. You don't have to use a rolling pin either. A wine bottle, dowel, smooth tree branch, aerosol can, etc. can substitute if you want to use a round object. Almost any round, square or rectangular object, harder than the foil, can be used to shape it. You can even pull the piece of metal across the edge of a counter, a few times, to achieve the same effect. You don't have to have a utility knife. You can score the soft metal with any equivalent of an awl or knife point deeply enough to flex it to break along the score line. Scissors will cut it if you have them. Again... You can make this without any cost excluding the $1 spent for the piece of metal.
It'll cost $50 only if you make it so. ** You don't have to buy a rolling pin. In this application, an empty wine bottle, piece of closet pole, PVC or cast iron pipe will work instead. If none of those are available, cut up a suitable sized dead tree branch. This metal can also be flattened by pulling it along the edge of a board, cabinet, desk, etc. ** You don't need to buy a drill. A one-hole paper punch will cut through this metal. If you don't have that, you can sharpen the end of a piece of copper tubing and use your rolling pin branch as a mallet to punch out the holes. Poke holes with a Phillips screw driver, making sure you bend down the rough edges afterwards. ** 18 ga (or approx.) wire is easy to find, inexpensively. Often the hardware section of grocery stores, $ stores and big box stores have this wire. ** You don't have to have a metal square to measure & score the aluminum. Use an empty cereal box, for example, as a guide. That'll be close enough as this isn't precision work. ** You don't need a utility knife. This metal can be cut with cheap kitchen shears or scored with a nail, awl, flat blade screwdriver, paring knife, etc. until flexing will break it. ** Or are you talking return on investment for your time? :-) I ran the numbers based on the figures you gave & estimated $2 for supplies. Never had a job that paid that kind of rate per hour. ;-) Just food for thought........
Oldtimer Lee exactly, all it takes is to think outside the box and compromise a bit with the supplies you need...you can also use beer/soda can tins that’s again folded on all four sides...you can just as easy use a 1x2 (IE : disclaimer) scrap wood for bending the folds and getting it straight.
@@oldtimerlee8820 Your numbers are off, 18 gauge wire alone is $3.78 plus tax Over liner is over $3 Really not sure any of the time to hunt down this stuff is worth more than $10, in terms of labor it's going to take more than 20 mins, by then I could have mowed the neighbors lawn got $20 and bought two windscreens brainiac. $1 windscreen=clickbait
@@insomb "Your numbers are off, 18 ga wire alone is $3.78 plus tax" First, my post was written 4 years ago. Think prices today are the same as back then? Next, I found 18 ga wire at $3.78 from Amazon. It's a 50' roll. That's .08 / ft before tax. Oven liner is 18" wide, Use 24" of wire to make calculation easy for you. That's $.16 + tax for wire. Next I found the Hefty oven liners at $3.34 for a pack of TWO (2) or $1.67/each. At today's prices that's $1.83 + tax for supplies. *Less than $2.00 per windscreen at today's prices.* How much time does it take to click on a shopping cart. Wise folks know how to place orders without incurring shipping charges. FWIW.... I've actually made an number of these for friends/family Grab/Go and Get Home Bags. It doesn't take 20 minutes to make one. If I understand your convoluted logic, you're working 20+ minutes mowing grass in order to spend $20 on 2 $10 windscreens. Don't forget you had to buy gas for the mower, check fluids & other maintenance, take it to/from your neighbor, spend time talking (at least enough to get your $20 bill). While you're earning your $20, I'm making 2 for approx $4. When you spent your $20 for 2, you still had your fuel expense and your 2 windshields. By comparison "brainiac", I saved $16 compared to the price you paid. Plus, I didn't have a mower gas cost and had almost a whole roll of 18 ga wire leftover to use for other projects. BTW, this video was done in May *2011* . In 9 years, the price is still less than $2. Far from being "clickbait", it was and still is a valid premise. I'd rather sit in the shade and use less than $2 ($4 for 2) worth of supplies instead of working in the hot sun, mowing grass, to spend $10 ($20 for 2). Think about it.....
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I ran across this clip a couple of years ago and made two windscreens. Both are still solid for use with my remote canister stove and I get out about 60 times a year. The size and weight is obviously negligible and they work like a charm.
A big thanks for this one CampGear.
Finally! This is what I've been looking all over RUclips for! GREAT thoughtful, simple and detailed, economical craftsmanship!
Thank you so much. I just bought a little iron rocket stove that's about a foot and a half tall. The taller folding metal windscreens I had seen on Amazon years ago seemed nowhere to be found. Who needs to spend the money anyway, I can do a custom version of this and it'll work great!
Hey! Thanks @iahelcathartesaura3887. I'm glad you found this video. I'm still using this $1 wind shield to this day. Here are my thoughts 13 years (?!) later: ruclips.net/video/j3uj5xJiVtQ/видео.html
I made one and it works great, thanks
I used a hole punch designed for paper though, which made cleaner-edges holes
Oh I love simplicity!
Hey! Thanks @DeborahThird-og1uo. I'm glad you found this video. I'm still using this $1 wind shield to this day. Here are my thoughts 13 years (?!) later: ruclips.net/video/j3uj5xJiVtQ/видео.html
Paper punch works great for holes in aluminum.
Clamp the aluminum between lumber pieces for drilling safety as well as significant reduction in burrs.
You can also make V cuts with a utility knife and bend the resulting tab in.
Lastly, cut some V or square notches along the edge for ventilation instead of inboard holes.
always nice to see a new way to make something I need!!
That is so damn clever. I never thought ive using a rolling pin to flatten the sides.
Great video
Thank you 🙏🏾
Hey! Thanks @djjoeykmusic. I'm glad you found this video. I'm still using this $1 wind shield to this day. Here are my thoughts 13 years (?!) later: ruclips.net/video/j3uj5xJiVtQ/видео.html
Bra underbar video och nyttig.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great instructional, very clear. Thanks!
Just made a couple with a friend. They work great. Thank you!
They sell pretty much all the tools you used at my local dollar tree store. But I think I can use some beefier pieces like the drill bits I have are about 1/2" or so and maybe some heavier wire so it holds together better. Plus mine won't be so tall. I think I need to go camping now....
Very easy and practical idea!
Love the diy stuff that seems to be particularly rich in the alcohol stove arena.
Not a bad idea for $1. Only thing I'd add would be a double roll for the wire to keep it really locked in, and perhaps a little more rigidity, but in a strong wind, wouldn't this pretty much blow around? Especially with it so tall? Though the height would be good for the cold.
CampGearTV, my friend's camp stove blew up last weekend. She was using a small propane cooker w/ wings on the screw top to hold her pot. Her wind shield had no holes. How far down can this shield go? to the ground? Would you follow up on how to apply the shield so the bottled gas canister doesn't get too hot and explode. Thanks.
That was a great video on making a wind screen. Thanks.
Apologies for a long delayed response. If you're using a canister stove, the canister should be outside the windshield. If that's not an option (which it wouldn't be in the case you mention) then you'd need to find a balance between shielding wind on one side and allowing air / cooling on the other. Another option would be for more and bigger vent holes near the bottom. The heat of the stove would naturally draw in air from the bottom air holes and keep the canister cool. Above all, be careful!
Great video. I'm going to try making my holes with the hole maker in my grommet kit. I think it's about 1/2 " diameter. Should be perfect.
That's a great idea. I've been planning to revisit this video and a grommet hole maker sounds like the perfect solution. That said, the $1 wind screen I made in this video (13 years ago... hard to believe!) still works for me to this day. I revisit it in this video: ruclips.net/video/j3uj5xJiVtQ/видео.html
You can also buy sheet aluminum by the foot at most local hardware stores. Mine had it for $1.50/ft. Save your rolling pin. :)
I bet your tired of the posts, BUT; nice fit and finish, glad you created ventilation, which without, can cause a serious accident, great job.
I have not watched it yet but I am wondering how this video can be 10 mins long....
Ok I watched it was worth the 10 ok
saved me some 9 quid there. i knew aluminium would do the trick but didn't think of oven liner - was wondering what I could reinforce kitchen foil with. your idea is perfect! could also skip the wire in the seam and just use a metal cable-tie to hold the two ends together, but that's just my extreme laziness i guess :D
Just use an old biscuit tin or Roses/Quality Street tin.
Bonus... You get to eat the contents of the tin first.
Awesome, have you made any changes over the years?
No changes over the years and I'm actually still using the exact same one I made in this video (checks upload date) 13 years later?!
This is a very nice instructional video on how to make a windscreen. I've been searching how to make windscreens and this seems to be the best. Can you instead use a hole puncher to create the holes? I am a girl and I don't really own any power tools lol. I mean i can ask my dad, but the only thing available to me at the moment is a hole puncher :)
a hole puncher would definitely work! you just need to ensure you punch enough of holes as the stove needs a lot of oxygen, just not string wind. not enough air in and you might have a poorly burning stove, or worse, an explosion!
great! Thanks!
Sorry for the super delayed reply! A hole punch should work. You'll just need one that reaches far enough in to the foil liner.
That's an excellent idea. I'll try that! Thanks :)
Why are you commenting that when you made the video
Good job
I've made some wind screens using a cardboard box. I cut it to size then rap it with aluminum tape. It cost more then your method but works well and is light weight and you won't have to worry about cutting your fingers. It will rap around your cook pot and secure it with a rubber band.
cardboard is inflammable though, makes me a little nervous... just aluminium is much safer :)
Thanks
Thanks!
Cheap and works well.'Nuff sed!
What's the reason for the holes?
Thanks for the upload
This is well and good but just how do you conveniently carry it in a backpack???
inside your cooking pot. rolling the windscreen makes a cylindrical shape, just like a traditionnal cylindrical cup. the one on the video might be too high for a minimalist so you can make it shorter
@@zer0kelvin212 Well duh!! I shoulda thought of that. Thank you for the input.
I've just cut up an old aluminium water bottle as a wind screen with tent pegs to keep it in place, it doesn't get crumpled in the backpack and still weighs almost nothing, even if you have to buy the bottle, you can get them for buttons these days.
jelkel25 Neat idea. Did you drill holes in to let air in? How far does it wrap around your pot? Is it a small pot?
CampGearTV I use different pots depending on what I'm doing, though 90% of the time I use solid fuel (Hexi's) which are lower to the ground, you might have to rethink this for many gas type stoves as they're higher up. I usually just have it a little further away (4/5 inches) so I don't have to worry about air holes. I picked up a new aluminium litre bottle for £1 ($1.50?) today they're so cheap at present, you will have to burn off the plastic coating on the inside on an open fire before you use it.
Thats fantastic, many thanks for posting this - Id always try to make my own stuff rather than just buy it - its more fun, TBH.
You can cut the top down a little bit...
nice. thanks!
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what about instead of using wire a wire coat hanger? any thoughts?
Andy Grassia heavy as hell, over kill for the job.
Andy Grassia What @MrBac00 said. A coat hanger is too rigid, IMO. You need something nice and flexible and easy to work with. I've been using this wind shield since before this video was made (four years ago?!?) and I haven't felt the need for more rigid wire.
Nice vid,clear instructions.However I was taught to always cut away from my body,in case the blade slips.
Great idea but it looks too light. Looks like the slightest breeze will blow it away.
+Nunsweepit421 I've never had that happen and I've used mine a couple of hundred times. If you use a remote canister stove this is the perfect windscreen.
since it wraps around the stove it won't fly away unless your stove and your dinner fly away with it :D
Would be great to see actually using the DIY item, but best idea!
Good idea, but whatever scrap aluminum they recycle these from just melts after a few uses.
Brad Kassing I haven't run into that issue. Maybe my stove doesn't run hot enough ;)
+CampGear TV My stoves run plenty hot and it's never happened. The screen gets hot but doesn't melt. Makes sense considering these are made for cooking in an oven. :)
i dont see need for holes factory made ones dont have them
I know this was long ago but it looks like you had a bad case of hanging chads
$1 bought me a pre-made wind screen on eBay. lol so... Although you do need to wait 2 weeks for it to get to the US from China.
More fun, and a sense of accomplishment when you're able to make it yourself. Perhaps I missed something, but I was always under the impression that primary intent of survival, and woodsman-ship was self sufficiency and independence ???
it might be flimsier than the one here, or the wrong length, or the wrong height... any number of things could go wrong when it's so cheap!
DIY $2 (with fuel) Folding Stove: ruclips.net/video/1s-UBqEk-Wk/видео.html
Looks really stiff and hard to store.
I'm late (SUPER late) but not at all... it wraps around my pot and fits inside the stuff sack. I revisit it in this video: ruclips.net/video/j3uj5xJiVtQ/видео.html
I did it with the help of Avasva solutions.
Windy enough to need, windy enough to blow away. good idea though.
Molon Labe On a particularly windy day, I try to make a sort of trench to put the wind screen in. Tent pegs or, failing that, rocks will help too.
I think this one is a better design: How to build a $1.00 windscreen for a backpacker stove. (Alcohol Stoves & Others)
buy new one only $20
Great to see it. I did it too. The plans from Woodglut helped me a lot :)
I am sure you can still buy handbook with all info you need on Woodprix. Just google it.
Not really a dollar, how much is 18 gauge wire: $ 3.78
Oven liner is around $3-6
Box cutter: at least $6
Drill might as well not even bring up a drill coz by then you could have afforded several windscreens.
Screw this I'm just going to have my friend block the flame until the water boils.
No like man
No
Hahaha, that's just awe... Ridiculous.
Yup, I'll just buy one for $10 rather than MacGyver one with all these tools n shit lol
$1?!!! with $30+ worth of crap "YOU have"
Amazing! There ways to accomplish this without spending more than $1. Stop to think, my friend.... You don't have to have a drill and drill bit.There are a number ways to put a hole in that thin metal. You don't have to use a square to measure. Any straight edge will do. The roll of wire isn't absolutely needed, if you can't scrounge up a scrap piece of wire. Just put a 2nd fold in the metal for extra stability. You don't have to use a rolling pin either. A wine bottle, dowel, smooth tree branch, aerosol can, etc. can substitute if you want to use a round object. Almost any round, square or rectangular object, harder than the foil, can be used to shape it. You can even pull the piece of metal across the edge of a counter, a few times, to achieve the same effect. You don't have to have a utility knife. You can score the soft metal with any equivalent of an awl or knife point deeply enough to flex it to break along the score line. Scissors will cut it if you have them.
Again... You can make this without any cost excluding the $1 spent for the piece of metal.
thats like $50+ to make. i can buy one for $10
It'll cost $50 only if you make it so.
** You don't have to buy a rolling pin. In this application, an empty wine bottle, piece of closet pole, PVC or cast iron pipe will work instead. If none of those are available, cut up a suitable sized dead tree branch. This metal can also be flattened by pulling it along the edge of a board, cabinet, desk, etc.
** You don't need to buy a drill. A one-hole paper punch will cut through this metal. If you don't have that, you can sharpen the end of a piece of copper tubing and use your rolling pin branch as a mallet to punch out the holes. Poke holes with a Phillips screw driver, making sure you bend down the rough edges afterwards.
** 18 ga (or approx.) wire is easy to find, inexpensively. Often the hardware section of grocery stores, $ stores and big box stores have this wire.
** You don't have to have a metal square to measure & score the aluminum. Use an empty cereal box, for example, as a guide. That'll be close enough as this isn't precision work.
** You don't need a utility knife. This metal can be cut with cheap kitchen shears or scored with a nail, awl, flat blade screwdriver, paring knife, etc. until flexing will break it.
** Or are you talking return on investment for your time? :-) I ran the numbers based on the figures you gave & estimated $2 for supplies. Never had a job that paid that kind of rate per hour. ;-)
Just food for thought........
Oldtimer Lee exactly, all it takes is to think outside the box and compromise a bit with the supplies you need...you can also use beer/soda can tins that’s again folded on all four sides...you can just as easy use a 1x2 (IE : disclaimer) scrap wood for bending the folds and getting it straight.
@@SouthernPatriot1 Just stand there please, water is almost done boiling, don't move.
@@oldtimerlee8820 Your numbers are off, 18 gauge wire alone is $3.78 plus tax
Over liner is over $3
Really not sure any of the time to hunt down this stuff is worth more than $10, in terms of labor it's going to take more than 20 mins, by then I could have mowed the neighbors lawn got $20 and bought two windscreens brainiac. $1 windscreen=clickbait
@@insomb "Your numbers are off, 18 ga wire alone is $3.78 plus tax" First, my post was written 4 years ago. Think prices today are the same as back then? Next, I found 18 ga wire at $3.78 from Amazon. It's a 50' roll. That's .08 / ft before tax. Oven liner is 18" wide, Use 24" of wire to make calculation easy for you. That's $.16 + tax for wire. Next I found the Hefty oven liners at $3.34 for a pack of TWO (2) or $1.67/each. At today's prices that's $1.83 + tax for supplies. *Less than $2.00 per windscreen at today's prices.*
How much time does it take to click on a shopping cart. Wise folks know how to place orders without incurring shipping charges.
FWIW.... I've actually made an number of these for friends/family Grab/Go and Get Home Bags. It doesn't take 20 minutes to make one. If I understand your convoluted logic, you're working 20+ minutes mowing grass in order to spend $20 on 2 $10 windscreens. Don't forget you had to buy gas for the mower, check fluids & other maintenance, take it to/from your neighbor, spend time talking (at least enough to get your $20 bill).
While you're earning your $20, I'm making 2 for approx $4. When you spent your $20 for 2, you still had your fuel expense and your 2 windshields. By comparison "brainiac", I saved $16 compared to the price you paid. Plus, I didn't have a mower gas cost and had almost a whole roll of 18 ga wire leftover to use for other projects.
BTW, this video was done in May *2011* . In 9 years, the price is still less than $2. Far from being "clickbait", it was and still is a valid premise. I'd rather sit in the shade and use less than $2 ($4 for 2) worth of supplies instead of working in the hot sun, mowing grass, to spend $10 ($20 for 2).
Think about it.....