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I think it was the Chinese who said the hardest part of a long march was the first step
So the first step
Make yourself a test  bed and what you see is simple to make the copper tube is for another project and the meths burner is only for test purposes boiler material hopefully will arrive later this week. The object here is to see how long it will take the boiler to run dry and the amount of meths to do so, no point making a boiler sticking it in a car only to find out it only runs for 2mins so making i little rig like this will hopefully produce the answers. Also i will be able to adjust the height of the meths burner so that i can determine the optimum space between the top of the wick and the boiler bottom remember the boiler size 1" x 1 3/4" long  mabye 2" max
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