219. Easy DIY Pack Stove / Tent Heater Build.

hey everybody welcome back so today i've got another do-it-yourself takedown tent heater or pack stove this one is similar to some of the other ones that i've done in that it uses readily available furnace duct end caps available at your home depot store this one's made out of 14 inch caps but unlike some of my other stoves this one has the hardware running top to bottom this previous stove has the hardware running front to back and you'll see the the fasteners on the front and the hinges on the side this particular stove rods running vertically top to bottom is fairly lightweight in that it incorporates the legs into the rods fairly easy to put together as well which is another thing i like about it and fairly easy to construct so to put it together basically you lock the four sides together slip on the bottom panel roll it over onto the the other side slide on that top panel and then insert the rods and you fasten the wing nuts so super easy to put together as you can see i'm literally doing it with one hand while i'm holding holding the camera in the other and uh it's it's really that simple you can see in this shot the hinges are on the front instead of the side and that's something that i had to do to basically make the uh the side panels fit together with the front and back panels use recessed t-nuts on the top of this 5 16 hole quarter inch rods and you get a nice flat cooking surface on the top so just taking this thing apart you can see the rods coming up in the corner and i've got some notches there for the rods just so that they come up nice and cleanly and to disassemble it literally the front and back panels just pop off fairly easily and to assemble just as easy in the reverse direction the front and back panels in this case are connected to the side panels with basically a slot which you can see there and a little bit of a lip on the front and back panel just giving you a close-up of that slot on the side there really easy to do this and that's one of the things i wanted to show you in this video so that's what the the slot on the front and back of the side panels looks like to do that basically you're taking the factory edge and just folding it over there's already one bend there and just by hammering it flat basically that's all you're going to need to do just trying to do it as straight as possible no special tools required here this is on my back deck with a you know super cheap hammer you do that on both ends of the side panels and that's basically all you need to do the end panels are eight inches by eight inches i had to cut these out of larger materials because you can't buy an eight by eight panel but i'm going to show you how i did that here also a fairly uh easy thing to do in a lot of my other videos i kind of really hadn't shown you how i did this and so i want to expand on this a little bit here today so the end panel is going to be 8 inches by 8 inches but you're going to have to make a fold on it so i'm measuring the 8 inch finished line and then nine inches is going to be the cut line so there's the fold the dotted line and that's the cut line at nine inches once again this is a longer 16 inch panel i think in order to cut this i'm just making a couple of notches here at both of these lines and you'll see how i finish that up in a second here probably a good idea to wear gloves here but i'm just so used to doing this without that i'm just kind of diving right in there but be careful you know lots of sharp edges i haven't shown you any of the filing here but all of these sharp edges and corners you're going to want to take a little bit of a file to that and just clean them up for one thing to protect your your hands and also your equipment you put this thing in your pack and you know you don't want to tear anything up so just by cutting those notches it's going to make it a little bit easier for me to make this cut all the way across you can see the little bit of bending that i'm going to need to do there but can accomplish it fairly easily that cut there is not actually all that critical that edge is just going to be folded over and it's going to be inside the stove anyway just trimming off the excess pieces here the next thing i'm going to do is is fold that up at the eight inch mark a couple of different ways you can do this you can buy a sheet metal bender for probably less than 20 bucks at your home depot just slide that on there and give it a bend now it makes a really nice straight edge but if you don't want to buy that the way i had been doing it is just with a pair of really simple pliers that are fairly flat on that on the nose and then just go across and make a bunch of really shallow bends you don't want to bend it all at once just make small moves with it and you can actually get a fairly straight edge just to clean up this this edge here i'm going to take a an old piece of 2x4 just a random piece of lumber that's got a fairly sharp corner on it if you've got a you know workbench or something like that you can use that but just take an old 2x4 and sharpen up that edge once again with your hammer not too critical it's not a sealing edge really so just squaring that up makes the whole thing go together a little nicer and then just a little more flattening out there so i'm finished or i end up with a eight inch by eight inch finish panel with one factory edge on it there that needs to be straightened out i'm just going to show you this operation once again because i haven't done it in any of my other videos you wouldn't need to be quite this precise because essentially i'm going to cut two of these sides down to about half an inch but i'm going to show you here how i open it up with a screwdriver once again taking my pliers and bending that open small moves and then once i've got it bent open i'm just going to flatten it out a little bit what also wouldn't need to be this flat because you're essentially going to cut most of that off but i'll just show it to you here hammer that out on your two by four one thing i'll show you i got an old trailer hitch a piece of steel if you hit on something hard and flat like that you can really kind of bang out a lot of imperfections so um that's how i that's how i do that so on this end panel or both end panels you want to have two of the sides be about an inch and the other two trim off to under half an inch so they fit inside the slots that we've created on the side panel so there i'm just trimming off most of the excess leaving about 3 8 of an inch up to maybe a half an inch on two of the sides and then i'm just going to trim the corners so that the rods are able to come up in the corner so just kind of an approximation here fairly simple two cut trim on the longer edges so there you go that's a finished end panel the front and back are basically exactly the same and then in the front panel gonna go ahead and and cut the door so in this case the hinges that i used were just something that had kind of kicking around at home but they worked particularly well on the front because they're fairly wide uh you'll see that i'm just showing you with the tape measure there that you want as as wide a hinge as possible so that when you mount this flush the bolt heads are actually inside the cutout for the door so that the door fits nice and flush so door dimensions three and a half inches or opening dimensions three and a half inches down three and a half inches on the door on the opening height and one inch up from the bottom inch and a half from each side to mark the cutout for the stove pipe i'm using a three inch pipe so the easiest way to do this is take a roll of duct tape or packing tape like that which has a factory three inch core and mark out a three inch hole drilled the hole in the center used my tin snips just cut that around being fairly precise with that one and that works just fine the four holes in the corners are an inch in from each edge so or sorry half inch in from each edge half inch on center the hole for the pipe is one inch from the back of the stove i'm just going to show you here the first holes that i drilled were a little bit further in and that didn't work out very well so i'm telling you don't drill them there drill about half an inch from each edge those are the finished side panels i actually use these on another stove that's why they're look pre-used there just recycling some of my my metal once again half inch in from the end and from the side on those corner holes and that's the the bottom panel just the four holes drilled in that one nothing else to do there pretty well the final thing to do is to cut your rods i went with 14 inches on these and it i made them all the same and you

Channel: Dave's Real Survival

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Length: 11min 29sec (689 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 27 2020