Fancy building a parabolic solar cooker which can cook food and boil water in less than 30 minutes.
On special offer is a range of parabolic paper templates which have been designed and printed using specialist CAD software, accurate to 0.01mm and printed on high gloss 80gsm paper.
Key Benefits: –
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Parabolic templates make building a parabolic solar cooker as easy as building a box solar cooker. Simply use the paper template to mark out petals on any reflective material, and start building your very own fast, portable parabolic solar cooker. - Achieve cooking temperatures over 350°F.
- Templates can be used over and over again to make dozens of parabolic solar cookers.
- FREE sheet of reflective vinyl included with every parabolic template.
- Sizes available 90cm, 120cm, and 150cm diameter.
Key Features: -
- Full building instructions are included with each parabolic solar cooker template.
- FREE worldwide shipping.
- Designed by professional CAD software and accurate to 0.01mm.
- Printed on high gloss 80gsm paper.
- Secure merchant paypal account, 100% safe & secure checkout.
Technical Specifications: -
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90cm parabolic template
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120cm parabolic template
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150cm parabolic template
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How parabolic solar cookers will look when completed.
Notes: -
Suggested reflective materials for solar cookers…
- Aluminium foil is a great reflective material for building cost effective solar cookers,
- Advantages – Cheap, easy to use.
- Disadvantages – Creases and tares easily.
- Reflective mirror vinyl is the perfect material for the home hobbyist solar cooker build.
- Advantages – Self adhesive backing and highly reflective makes mirror vinyl easy to use and apply to any material.
- Disadvantages – none.
- Anodized Aluminium.
- Advantages – Highly reflective.
- Disadvantages – Expensive and difficult to handle / cut.
NB – Please note that reflective materials require a backing material, such as cardboard. For parabolic solar cookers, a suitable backing material is plastic sheeting (ABS, polyprop, HIPS approx 2mm thick) – not included with parabolic solar cooker templates.
- 5 metres x 610mm reflective chrome mirror vinyl
Only $30USD (£20GBP) + $15USD postage to USA/Canada.
Order here
Samples of vinyl can be provided (23cm x 16cm) sized sheets, please email indicating how many sheets you would like. 70cents (USD) per sheet + postage.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to get in touch or leave a comment.
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December 4th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
That sounds like a very reasonable price for such detailed instructions.
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December 5th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Hi Rob, long time no look at your site – temporary, I hope, absence from blogging. I like the templates, will order when my paypal a/c gets stocked up. Hope you are well, will bookmark your site and try to remember to visit more often. Playing too much chess instead of blogging! Can you perhaps re-review the old Dr-Awsom – I laughed just now when I saw your review following our disagreement! Dr.A is mostly harmless really! Go well, and drop me a mail. Bob
December 5th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Hi Bob
I hope you are well. Playing too much chess can never be a bad thing. Let me know if I can be of any help with regards to templates, web dev. I would be only too happy to help.
Warm and sunny regards
Rob
December 5th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Many thanks for your kind words Justin.
I like to think that the parabolic solar cooking template is available to all who wish to have a go at building their very own highly accurate and portable parabolic solar cooker.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:11 am
Really it is very interesting post and I like to read this post & information is really very good thanks for sharing such type of informative post & keep sharing regularly.
December 22nd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
neat product something like this could bee hand on my camping trips, im going to do a bit of research.
December 22nd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Glad you like, please let me know if I can be of any help in your research.
Regards
Sol
December 28th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Wow, very cool! This would be fantastic for my kid’s school camping trips. What a kick! Thanks for sharing.
January 12th, 2010 at 1:23 am
A cheap way to boil water. I’m going to play with the aluminum foil method. Thanks.
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January 17th, 2010 at 4:30 am
Yeah, Playing too much chess can never be a bad thing.
and it is good.
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February 15th, 2010 at 3:18 am
Great article on technology. I was just leading a class discussion on the increase in knowledge/technology. I can’t wait to share this article as an example. Great work!
February 19th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Thank you. I wish all the very best with your class discussions.
February 27th, 2010 at 10:36 am
Really it is very great idea & it is working very well thanks for sharing such type of very informative post.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:19 pm
我如何才能購買這個模板？中國。
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Really cool ways to build a parabolic solar cooker. Great idea can be used for my camping trip.
March 28th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
I have always been a fan of anything that is solar-powered. I believe that everything should be made that way, if possible.
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August 16th, 2010 at 8:32 am
This is really cool. I think a lot more people should use solar energy. We have an old solar cooker at home. So during the sommer we cook rice in it.
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October 12th, 2010 at 4:04 am
I see the 2worry;I am very m sad to hear that you got your Supra fixed: I remember reading about some of your doubts3x !.
December 2nd, 2010 at 12:15 am
love learing bout dat
December 2nd, 2010 at 12:15 am
soo bored
December 15th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
I too am bored
December 28th, 2010 at 11:40 am
will these templates be in stock again soon?
December 31st, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Hi Anika
You can purchase the templates in ebook format. You simply print off template yourself.
See here for more info on solar cooker ebooks:
http://www.solreka.com/solar-cookers.html
January 11th, 2011 at 12:50 am
Thank you for sharing the information with us. The solar power is considered as the new energy for us and it is green power for the environment. We should encourage more people using it in the life.
January 12th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
@Designer Radiators
We shouldn’t have encourage anyone, our gov’ts should be actively bringing such technologies to fruition. Alas, as long as black gold exists we will never see solar power harnessed as it should be.
January 13th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Nice post, thank you. It is essential for us focusing on the solar energy as it is the green power for our life. I have read that so many governments are encouraging people applying the solar power in the countries, and they have provided citizens more benefits if using solar power.
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January 13th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Thank you for providing the useful information with us. It is no doubt that the solar energy is considered as the new green power for us. We should encourage more people using it in the life, because it will protect our planet as well.
September 26th, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Green technology is such a great idea. This is an excellent and original idea, I hope we see more of them around. How much did you spend making all this?
December 23rd, 2011 at 5:46 am
Thanks, I have recently been searching for info about this topic for a long time and yours is the best I’ve came upon till now. However, what concerning the conclusion? Are you certain about the source?
December 24th, 2011 at 2:30 pm
@7 Passenger Vehicles
“However, what concerning the conclusion? Are you certain about the source?”
Do you mean the technical specifications?
If so, then information is accurate. I used cad software to design petals, and formulated energy output based on the fact that every square metre of solar energy to hit the Earth’s surface produces 1kw of energy.
Hope that helps.