$20 Woodstove made from a propane tank - Backyard mechanic DIY

hey YouTube it's time for second video about a woodstove made from propane tanks and i have here is a really tall really much bigger than my original video propane tank like to turn into a larger stove. The first step is to remove that valve. Now this tank does not have a shroud like the smaller tanks, so there's no way to use a pipe to hold the tank from moving while you free up the valve and those valves are on they're really tight Here's hoping this will do the trick I broke it, that's one step! There it goes! as has been pointed out by my previous viewers the only safe way to get these free of gas fill them up with water completely to the top evacuating all the gas as it goes up. Here it comes. Full! No air bubbles. more importantly no gas bubbles. I want this stove to accept a 2 foot log three feet plus of tank to work with, so I'm going to cut this down alright so we've got the ring cut up with the end cut off take a note this stuff is really thick this is like eight inch, which is thicker than the smaller propane bottles. I'm going to use that as a stand and well this on this now square end okay cut the back welding on shortened up and go ahead and cut off the front make a door so I got lucky with the diameter of the size of this tank in my scrap pile, I had an old copper boiler that I took apart and the bottom of it was steel. As you can see here in frame. Of course this is copper and so the rivets which I was going to try to find a way to drill them out or something that is going to be a lot of work so this happens to fit. just like that so it gives me that nice seal that I got in my previous wood stove build... which isn't perfectly airtight that's better than some of the other off so all i have to do is Mount hinge here and I'm in business some of you may be wondering how I'm going to make a flat hinge like this one work with a round surface like this one and this one too uneven surfaces, nonetheless. and the key is having an angle on the image before you go to weld it so what I'm going to do is tack it in place like this and you can see that from the side profile you can see that i'm really going to tack it right here in the center and right here down the bottom my my hand. she sounds purdy. This hinge by the way was not a very smooth operating before before i started so all that friction you're hearing is not from coming out of out of shape from welding it's was just not a very good hinge. in the interest of using the resources you have not the resources you want, I'm going to use this as my legs. I made a slice this way. more than halfway... so the legs will kind of curl under just a little bit there you have it a couple of half rounds ready to go onto the stove Well how do you like that.. we have a stove with feet and door that works well ... gotta put a latch on it. this little snug up tight i'm going to use some smaller brake discs this time around something that we can be convect the heat a little better than the ones that i was using on the previous stove. The goal with those not necessarily to be able to boil water to be able to convect enough heat to really cook with it's more to add some mass thermal mass still so it will stay hotter therefore will run more efficiently again, in the interest of using what you have and not what you want I got this tank it's actually all freon tank which is a little nerve-racking but it's very empty i can tell actually can shake it inside its got some noise like rust and dirt and stuff so pretty confident is empty and within a couple of inches three screens just maybe into the tight but I want to use now it's about a eight and a half or so and this is 6 so two and a half inches. so if I cut this top off I can get my flan go on the back of the stove so as you can see kind of that tank took a slice out of it and just roll it on itself it's pretty thin metal so thin enough that even to be malleable but thicker than the wall of the pipe so it'll be a good well then it'll be sturdy long term for taking the heat of the stove and it has a nice fit nice tight fit for this is actually go a little bit of work and it's well that up and cut off the excess and we're in business and now I've got a nice template to mark where I want this to go on the back and stove I guess I'm gonna go as far back as I can maximizing space I have a few a little bit of effort you can get a pretty tight fit it's a little less tight over here with the weld is but I'm going to beat that from the back side is and well in the ring in for the most part nice ok welled up ready for the air control decided to go with a square air inlet because all I have as far as stuff around the shop so i'm going to do well this in out here i'd like to get it lower but it's gonna be alright and cut it in here and will in this part of that old tank force will act like this inside obviously we'll turn that will be the air inlet control which is not not the kind of control that really like to have it's gonna be not as sensitive as I want but it will work i'll leave it on sort of a friction fit and i'll put a long lever on it you can sort of adjusted slowly and then of course this bolt is happy it's all going to work inside so without a ton of effort we have an air control that mostly blocks the air and as a nifty little made other bolts rings handle and that plastics guy would still be kind of sound I think that'll do just fine there you have it nice working draft control now all there is left to do is secure this door bolt in the middle is going to do this will fit into a notch on this piece of angle iron which we cut off right after not it doesn't take up too much room and the door will be done all right the door works well the position here for starting fire just slightly cracked you know the fire going and then the burn position nice good see all around one thing left to spawn drums are those going to work out and grind it clean and paint it all today again everything you've seen in this video as far as materials goes with stuff that i had around the house scrap some other projects pretty much everything that the tanks this thing to all three this was free these parts with three other thing that really paid anything for the fasteners maybe the angle iron and well wire writing discs so twenty dollars is my guess on the total budget for this project all right guys just final walkthrough pretty cool huh works pretty flawlessly just gonna paint it up brake drums will do just fine smokestack ready to go and do a little patch on the back there with a steel is then and there's my air control looking good well here it is the moment you've all been waiting for she's burning in fact that seal on the door is not as good as I hoped it was going to be good enough for garage here which is what i wanted for so perfect but not quite good enough for something i would use inside the house but here we go the event is doing his job as you can see what it's going to be hooked up to vent pipe outside eventually so thanks for watching everyone rate subscribe say hi comment tell me things what do you like what didn't you like thanks a lot thanks for watching to you

Channel: benfroggg

Views: 1,158,381

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Keywords: Propane (Chemical Compound), woodstove, wood, stove, homemade, propane stove, home made, cheap, reuse, recycled, fire, burn, burning, flame, propane, cylinder, valve, brake drum, repourpesed, scrap, frugal, home, made, Do It Yourself (Website Category), Recycling (Industry), backyard mechanic, backyard mechanic DIY

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Length: 10min 8sec (608 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 16 2013