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   RickL | Apr 27, 2004 02:57am | #1

   http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/device/devicesToC.html

   Found this in quick google.com search. Sounds like something you might find plans for in the old Popular Mechanics and handyman books in the back corners of your library. A rural library as opposed to an inner city library anyway. Never made one but I would imagine the old timers might have taken green wood to bend the outside rails. I would think some old chair making techniques would be of use. Just speculation on my part.

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   DWRead | Apr 29, 2004 06:26pm | #3

   Thanks for the link to the interesting website!

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   On a barely related note: One chain of links leads to a website on solar cooking. I actually have solar cookers, not for food, but for for toxic processes that require long heating, like dye baths and jeweler's pickle (for removing oxides from torch-soldered silver). Works well and keeps the chemicals out of the house.

   One cooker is a cardboard box lined with foil and covered with a pane of glass. The other is just a reflective car shade, shaped into a cone. Doesn't get as hot as the box but is compact.

   I keep them around as part of our emergency-preparedness equipment, in case of a prolonged power outtage or a need to pasteurize water.

   Janet

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   mlbfreestyle | Apr 27, 2004 07:39pm | #2

   I have not seen any plans.  Hope this isn't too basic; but be sure to use 3 legs.  Not 4.  Stability on uneven ground will be much better.  Ones I have seen and used in orchards around here come to a fairly narrow point at the top.  Wide base on the "2 leg" side.