RE: Juntos stove - refined somewhat

["Paul S. Anderson" <psanders@ilstu.edu>]

Ray and other Stovers,

At 01:02 PM 1/31/02 -0700, Ray Wijewardene wrote:
>Paul...Thank you VERY much... the two pictures came out excellently. Woulod
>you kindly send me the other pictures, and let me knoiw how we may purchase
>drawings-of or models-of this stove for experimental purposes in Sri Lanka.
>Thanking you kindly.. (Dr.) Ray Wijewardene

Thanks, but I do not have anything to send or sell.  Not yet, anyway.

You see, I am creating faster than I can draw.  The pictures are of a 
sheet-metal unit made by a metal-worker here.  It cost us about $150.   A 
bargain, and a high price at the same time.  The bargain is that it is 
pretty, and impresses people, and shows potential.  High price because it 
really did NOT do much more that the previously "wired together" tincanium 
first Juntos stove that recently reappeared in the message from Tom Read 
about putting pictures inside our e-mail.

(aside to Tom:  Great to include pictures in e-mail.  How did you do 
it?  Picture of Juntos prototype was nice size because of small file 
size.  Picture of YOU came too big on screen (but not slow to me because I 
have a fast connection).  And you have not aged a day since the first time 
I saw you !!)

Back to Ray:  I have worked out a way to make the gasifier (excluding the 
box around it) for minimal money (under US$5 I expect).  So, you do NOT 
want to make what is shown in the pictures even if I had plans to sell to you.

ASSUMING that the Juntos stove has some potential, and that some people and 
agencies such a Ray would actually pay to get started and would have some 
resources (people and facilities) to direct toward it (and toward other 
stoves), we as Stovers need to get organized or at least operational.

For example, I will be making a proposal to do some Juntos stove work with 
Crispin in Swaziland in part because 1) he has the ability (knowledge and 
materials) to make it happen, and 2) because I know him and trust 
him.  (Crispin, some potential Rotary DDF funds.  I am working as fast as I 
can.)  That could be done in MANY places.

I would love to also work with you, Ray.  Please tell me (to all of us on 
the Stoves list) about yourself and your work, especially as it relates to 
stoves.

We all need to know each other.

Ray, because you are on the Stoves listserve, you will get another message 
in a couple of minutes about a cook stove conference.  But I want it to be 
a separate message with its own subject thread called "cook stove meetings".

Looking forward to working with you (and others).

Paul


Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D.,  Fulbright Prof. to Mozambique 8/99 - 7/00
Dept of Geography - Geology (Box 4400), Illinois State University
Normal, IL  61790-4400   Voice:  309-438-7360;  FAX:  309-438-5310
E-mail: psanders@ilstu.edu - Internet items: www.ilstu.edu/~psanders


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