[TheForge] Wood stoves

[Dave Mudge]

Years ago there was a company that produced these stove kits named "SOTZ"
The hardware was made of stamped sheet iron (maybe 14 gauge).
They were the cheapest "air tight" stove that one could build. They
worked great.
I built many of them for myself as well as friends & neighbors. I
tried the double
barrel one one time. I wasn't impressed with it. At night you want to
turn your fire
way down and that didn't do a thing in the upper barrel. I found that
the best way
to make one of these stoves was to use an old water well tank 30 or 40 gallons.
The steel is much thicker than a 30 or 55 gallon drum. After making the stove,
I cut a piece of 1/4" plate roughly 18" x 24" and cut what is now the
top (side) of
the tank away and welded the flat plate to the tank. This made a great cooking
surface as well as a heat sink to radiate the heat from the fire. I
still have two of
these stoves after some 15 years. I have not tried the cast iron stove
kits that
you can get from "Northern Tool". I think that the SOTZ company has gone out
of business.
dave m

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> good idea.
>
> CGRAF wrote:
>> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>>> Mike Spencer wrote:
>>>
>>>>> If you rig these just right, you are supposed to get secondary
>>>>> combustion and burn the smoke in the top chamber.
>>>> Yeah.  Oxy hose connected? :-)  And if you *don't* get secondary
>>>> combustion, I should think you'd get condensation of wood
>>>> distillates.  Huge can of compustible crap waiting to become a flue
>>>> fire.
>>>>
>>>> - Mike
>>> I'd wondered about that Mike.
>>> The second drum is supposed to have a couple of adjustable air intakes
>>> for oxy. A " producer gas" burning stove ought to work. They make
>>> catalytic units to serve the same purpose but the exhaust has to be
>>> pretty damn hot for it to work.
>>> ______________________________________________________________
>>>
>>
>> I'd think that setting the top drum slightly pitched to the fluestack
>> between the drums would cut this risk way down.
>> Any distillates would drain, in minutes quantities, back into the fire.
>> This is why I was taught to run smoke pipe in the counter intuitive
>> fashion that drains creosote back to the fire.
>>
>> Mike Graf
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