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Upcycled Workshop Stove Experiment – Five Years On

Thursday, December 7th, 2017

It was time to do a bit of maintenance on the shop stove, so I thought, why not make something of an assessment video. It was always very experimental after all, and its been a while since the last Stove update. If your interested in making a wood burning stove, or are ‘fire-nerd’ inclined, get […]

Making a Wood Burning Stove – 7 Air Supply, Testing & Tweaking

Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

The stove is burning away as we write this, making for a nice cosy workshop :D There have been a few problems though and a number of modifications since we first got it going. Most irksome amongst these was smoke escaping into the shop space – not good. Anyway, we’ll come to that, first lets have a quick look at […]

Making a Wood Burning Stove – 6 Heat Exchanger

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

We have been testing the experimental wood stove and heating the workshop for a while now, but for the sake of completeness and order lets have a look at the heat exchanger build. Just as a recap on the design: The heat exchanger is a completely separate unit to the burn chamber. That way the burn chamber can […]

Making a Wood Burning Stove -3 The Burning Chamber

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Beginning to Weld! Ok so the weather is going bazaarly hot, what better way celebrate than by donning the welding gauntlets, sweaty mask and continuing the sideways-burning, self-loading stove project (see the first instalments if that makes no sense). We get the welding ball rolling by tack welding the primary and secondary burn chambers together.   […]