[TheForge] Wood stoves

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

I sorta got burned out on wood stoves.

Dave Mudge wrote:
> 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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