Wightsparks
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To heat the whole house to my lovely wife's idea of warm would cost a fortune, so she has her own heater in her study to top up the room temp.
For Xmas I'd like to make her a free standing "stove" out of a 13kg size gas bottle - but it would have to be electrically heated. She has said that she doesn't like any of the commercially available ones electric stoves/fires, so I was thinking of getting a used one and cannibalising the parts.
So I need a nice imitation fire glow inside - with a glass door probably. Thinking of a 2kw fan heater and controls which seems to be standard for most of the commercial ones. Alternatively she loves the glow of the quartz type heaters, but as they are infrared based heaters I don't think that would work so well.
I have seen the LED and incandescent imitation fire bulbs which would work if I don't strip down a commercial one.
Lots of the fab looking stoves on here so any ideas for this one welcome. I don't have a plasma cutter so nothing too elaborate!
Oh and I acquired an old unwanted flogas butane bottle today - just about the right size, shortly to be vented, filled with water and cut whilst full...
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oh no, now I have seen this
http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/gas-bottle-stove-with-character.11556/
That's going to complicate things as I have 2/10 artistic talent but 9/10 ability to copy something!
For Xmas I'd like to make her a free standing "stove" out of a 13kg size gas bottle - but it would have to be electrically heated. She has said that she doesn't like any of the commercially available ones electric stoves/fires, so I was thinking of getting a used one and cannibalising the parts.
So I need a nice imitation fire glow inside - with a glass door probably. Thinking of a 2kw fan heater and controls which seems to be standard for most of the commercial ones. Alternatively she loves the glow of the quartz type heaters, but as they are infrared based heaters I don't think that would work so well.
I have seen the LED and incandescent imitation fire bulbs which would work if I don't strip down a commercial one.
Lots of the fab looking stoves on here so any ideas for this one welcome. I don't have a plasma cutter so nothing too elaborate!
Oh and I acquired an old unwanted flogas butane bottle today - just about the right size, shortly to be vented, filled with water and cut whilst full...
edit
oh no, now I have seen this
http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/gas-bottle-stove-with-character.11556/
That's going to complicate things as I have 2/10 artistic talent but 9/10 ability to copy something!