been looking in to start making a stove for the work shop ,i have a lot of plans in order to use and seen a lot of them about but there is one thing i need to know if any one can answer is the door on how to make a good or best possible seal for it
mine would be a rocket stove and we seal it by using fire rope for the exhaust part to clean it out and also at the firebox the other place that e do use it is at the point of a concrete form to metal seal
i am going to make my first one out of a old gas bottle standing up may put some legs on may not so i think the part to have a good seal is where the door is but as for where the air inlet will be i have some box section to this as i think it will be a better way to make this flat for a slid it is just around the really i think
@mechman
They will last a fair old time if you put a reasonable thickness grate in to burn the coal on, I had a basic bottle burner in my workshop with rebar as the grate and that lasted about 3 years before it was wafer thin, use to chuck anything in it, it would glow cherry red with coal in!
@jal123ddd Rope seal is the best option as has been said, trying to make it seal by tight tolerance on a gas bottle would be very time consuming and if it warps on the first burn then you are back to square one!
Sy
Use angle iron to make a door frame and use rope it's easier to get a better seal with a flat door. It's not the best picture to show what I mean but you should get the idea. The ropes glued on but I normally add some sheet metal tabs round the edge and tap them over the rope just make sure.