W.olly
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Well as we all know its gona get nippy soon and last winter was bloody freezin in shed. Have a cheapo chinese diesel heater which was useless, elec`y blow heater was to costly, aswell as the diesel heat actually for what it did.
@gaz1 not sure what you will think but as said, use what i have and lets just see how it goes. tried to go gone with the suggestions you gave.
So i usually make standard wood/multi fuel stoves but this time i am trying a Rocket type stove.
What i wanted to do was built it from materials i have or can scavenge from the skip at work, all i needed was a cylinder of some sort which i had to buy to make the vortex chamber higher than the 49cm i have from the off cuts.
I have go to this stage and shattered now and a length of 25mm angle short to get the front plate fitted, which i hope will show up at work,
I had just enough 4mm plate to make the fire box and heat exchanger.
I ave made a pre heater chamber for the combustion air int the bottom as you can see here.
In that chamber will be a 25mm thick fire board on the bottom and above that welded to the heat exchanger floor i have welded a coupe lengths of 50mmx3mm strip to hope to get more heat in there to warm the combustion air.
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I have made the exchanger fully accessible for maintenance by bolting it one so easy removable. front front is where i ran out of the 25mm angle iron for the flange for the fire rope.
I got a LPG cylinder, i was after a compressor tank but tis will be fine. just as good.
So top was cut for that to be welded on top. easy job with a grinder.
front panel, i say front but tis will be the left hand side as the stove will be side on as i dont want it sticking out into the shed to much
this shows the combustion air inlet to the burn chamber on the bottom corners and in the middle the entrance to the vortex thingy. on the opposite side i started to drill out five 50mm combustion air inlet holes but hole saw packed in. ill sort at later.
Now to the top section of the heat exchanger. Not much to say but this will give room for a 6 inch ID vortex chamber with a 25mm wall thickness and then a 75mm space around it.
An idea i have, on top at first i will have sight glass to the vortex chamber, just to see if it works.
Then i will be fitting this pot for when melting down lead, this will hold a melting pot. I just need to workout how high i need the heat exchanger cylinder, i am thinking the base of the melting pot to be around 100mm above the top of the vortex chamber. not sure yet.
It will only have around 50mm of the pot set down inside, it has a nice concaved base so i am thinking this will help air spin better and move out down around and down to the flue in the main chamber.
so thats as far as i have got. ill start the fire boat as soon as i can. should just have enough 4mm plate to make that.
@gaz1 not sure what you will think but as said, use what i have and lets just see how it goes. tried to go gone with the suggestions you gave.
So i usually make standard wood/multi fuel stoves but this time i am trying a Rocket type stove.
What i wanted to do was built it from materials i have or can scavenge from the skip at work, all i needed was a cylinder of some sort which i had to buy to make the vortex chamber higher than the 49cm i have from the off cuts.
I have go to this stage and shattered now and a length of 25mm angle short to get the front plate fitted, which i hope will show up at work,
I had just enough 4mm plate to make the fire box and heat exchanger.
I ave made a pre heater chamber for the combustion air int the bottom as you can see here.
In that chamber will be a 25mm thick fire board on the bottom and above that welded to the heat exchanger floor i have welded a coupe lengths of 50mmx3mm strip to hope to get more heat in there to warm the combustion air.
.
I have made the exchanger fully accessible for maintenance by bolting it one so easy removable. front front is where i ran out of the 25mm angle iron for the flange for the fire rope.
I got a LPG cylinder, i was after a compressor tank but tis will be fine. just as good.
So top was cut for that to be welded on top. easy job with a grinder.
front panel, i say front but tis will be the left hand side as the stove will be side on as i dont want it sticking out into the shed to much
this shows the combustion air inlet to the burn chamber on the bottom corners and in the middle the entrance to the vortex thingy. on the opposite side i started to drill out five 50mm combustion air inlet holes but hole saw packed in. ill sort at later.
Now to the top section of the heat exchanger. Not much to say but this will give room for a 6 inch ID vortex chamber with a 25mm wall thickness and then a 75mm space around it.
An idea i have, on top at first i will have sight glass to the vortex chamber, just to see if it works.
Then i will be fitting this pot for when melting down lead, this will hold a melting pot. I just need to workout how high i need the heat exchanger cylinder, i am thinking the base of the melting pot to be around 100mm above the top of the vortex chamber. not sure yet.
It will only have around 50mm of the pot set down inside, it has a nice concaved base so i am thinking this will help air spin better and move out down around and down to the flue in the main chamber.
so thats as far as i have got. ill start the fire boat as soon as i can. should just have enough 4mm plate to make that.