Instructions

• 1). Make your metal coiling tool. Take the scrap piece of wood; attach the wooden cylinder a few inches from one end using a screw and screwdriver. (You or another adult might want to complete this step and step 2.) Next to the cylinder (at a distance of the diameter of the brass tube), insert a short screw halfway into the wood. Use a pencil to mark a line across the width of the wood 9 1/2 cm (for 50 cm tubes) from the cylinder (the starting point for bending the tube).
  
  
• 2). Place the metal coiling tube on a sturdy table. Coil the brass tube by inserting it between the wooden cylinder and screw with one end reaching to the starting point marked in step one (9 1/2 cm). Slide your sturdy tube over the end of the brass tube at the cylinder end of the wood with the end at least one to two cm away from cylinder. Bend the brass around the cylinder using the wood and sturdy tube as levers, keeping the coils close to each other, and make four coils. The two ends of the brass tube should end perpendicular to each other.
  
  
• 3). Remove the sturdy tube and place it over the opposite end of the brass tube (one cm past the screw). Bend the tube 45 degrees towards the cylinder. Remove the sturdy tube and finish the coil. Rotate the coil so that the remaining tube from the four coils are inserted between the cylinder and the screw, slide on the sturdy tube and repeat the above step. Make sure both ends of the brass tube are parallel.
  
  
• 4). Assemble your boat by stretching both ends of the baking pan, forming the bow at one end. Fold the other end inwards about 45 degrees. Slightly widen the width of the boat. Place your coiled brass or engine in the folded end of the pan with the brass tube touching the table. Attach the engine with a binder clip, grasping both sides of the folded aluminium with the tubes in between. The opening of the coiled brass should point slightly upwards.
  
  
• 5). Adhere double-sided tape to the bottom of the aluminium or votive candle cup and slide it underneath the coil, fixing it with a little double-sided adhesive tape at the bottom. (At this point, you can decorate the steamboat as desired.)
  
  
• 6). Pour water into one end of the coil engine until it comes out the other end. Place the boat into water. Put an Esbitor similar fuel tablet into the aluminum cup, strike a match, and drop it into the cup. It takes a few seconds for the tablet to ignite.