DIY Mini Wood Stove

hey in this build I'm gonna be showing you how I took this old rusty propane tank and turned it in to a mini wood stove for heating my garage to start this project you can see me breaking off the valve for the propane tank and this is important to basically let out all the vapors even though this tank was completely used up it's so important to get those last vapors because it can be obviously very flammable so to make sure the tank is completely purged of any leftover propane I went ahead and filled it up with water a couple times and drained it out just to make sure there was nothing left over once I had completely emptied it of any flammable propane I then basically just cleaned it up taking off some of the outer support pieces that I wasn't gonna be using for my wood stove once I had all those pieces off I just came back with a regular grinding wheel to clean up some of the bumps and imperfections all over the tank that were left after removing those pieces and this left me with a pretty clean cylinder bottle to begin turning into my wood stove here I'm using some blue painters tape that gives me some nice crisp clean lines to cut along and these cuts are creating the opening which will then be fitted with the door for my wood stove the first opening I built ended up being a little on the small side so I decided to open it up a little more just to fit slightly larger pieces of wood in later on after I had created that opening I had some old pieces of bed frame that I was using to trim out this opening that way I could basically create a flat rectangular plane within this circular bottle shape so here's me just welding on those pieces to create that final structure where the door will eventually fit into when working with this old bed frame there is a bunch of paint all over the frame and it's important to grind off all that paint so that you can get some clean welts now these welds aren't super structural by any means but I still wanted to get a decent adhesion and for that reason I had to do a bunch of extra grinding if you're buying iron then all power to you you don't have to take these steps but for me I was working on a more budget-friendly and project where I could just use the things accessible to me in my garage at the time so I ended up just taking the extra time to grind off a bunch of paint but in the end I think it was worth it because I was able to get fairly decent welds that would hold up it wasn't only good for the welds but using just the things I had on hand also forced me to be a little bit more creative and let me complete this whole project for under $20 once I had created the main door frame for loading the wood I decided to move on to creating the upper hole where the smoke and chimney for the wood stove will be and to do this I just used a cut-off wheel to cut out a circle on the top of the propane tape once I had done that I was able to add in some perforations along this circle and slowly Bend each tab up so that it fit a six inch single wall stovepipe once I had a good fit I was able to then go ahead and weld on the six-inch stovepipe coupler and this was a little bit of a tricky well just because the stovepipe wall is very thin in the propane tank metal is fairly thick in comparison so the difference in thicknesses of the metal can cause you to sometimes burn through the thinner metal if you're not careful I wanted an easy way to remove all the ash from my wood stove after using it for a prolonged period of time so I decided to add a two inch pipe fitting and cap to the bottom of the propane that would make it easy without taking apart the entire wood stove to hopefully remove the ash during use once I had the ash removal cap installed I knew about how I wanted my wood stove to sit and was able to use some old pieces of rebar I just had lying around to make some simple basic legs that would keep this wood stove off of the surface it's sitting on the next step was creating the door for the wood stove to keep all that heat and smoke in the stove and not have it all poured out so I originally was looking for some hinges but couldn't find any so was sorting through some of my tubing and piping stack and was able to find a rod and tube that fit together nicely I had to clean off some of the paint on the tubing but after that I had the materials I needed to begin building my door I took some measurements on the opening I created and then cut a piece out of a steel sheet that I had to start me off on the door building process once I had that sheet cut I then took some pieces of flat bar stock I had and trimmed out the door because the pieces of sheet metal I had weren't very thick I wanted to use this flat bar to reinforce the door I also might end up putting some glass in this wood stove at some point so this would give it a nice place to sit kind of like a frame once the basic door was welded up I added on some small pieces of angle iron and used my angle grinder just to clean everything up I then was testing out the fit and getting idea for how I could get the hinge to work with the tubing and rod I had once I had a good concept of where all the hinge pieces needed to be and how they were gonna fit I added some t-shirt material to act as a temporary spacer that would allow my gasket to fit later on and when I welded those pieces into place after I had the door secured and the hinge on the next step was creating a handle to do this I just used a nut and bolt along with a piece of metal rod most wood stoves are regulated based on the amount of air that's led in for combustion to take place so for my wood stove I wanted to create an air intake and to do that I opened up a hole on the right side of my propane tank over that opening I welded on the other half of my two-inch pipe coupling this gave me a flat surface that the door for my air in tank could mate up against to provide a better seal than would have been achievable if I was trying to mate against the curved body of the propane tank finally I added a handle and a spring to the air tank this let me adjust the opening easily and have its position be held without any other moving parts needed so here's just a quick walk-around look at my wood stove once all the welding has pretty much been complete and you can see that it's looking a little rough but all the major components are there inside you can see where the hole is to remove the ash the door opens nice and easily the air intake is easily adjustable and holds its position with the tension being put on it with the spring being used everything is basically in place now it's just time for some final touches to really make this thing look a little better and hopefully it's going to perform just fine before I painted the wood stove I want to give it a test run to make sure that I didn't need to add any other features and that it would work well as is so I decided to light a little fire in it and see how it would go everything went great and as a added benefit I ended up burning off a lot of the paint and this made it easier to remove later on before I added some high heat paint to the stove removing all the paint can be a little bit of a hassle but to make sure I got a good adhesion for my high heat paint I went ahead and wire brushed the entire thing to make sure that it wasn't a lot of extra paint residue left on there I decided to use an old helium tank I had lying around to make a cosmetic part for the wood stove this basically just acted to cover up some of the uglier welding I did to attach the chimney pipe I sprayed everything down with a degreaser and wiped it off to get it as clean as possible and then gave it a coat of rust-oleum high heat black spray paint to protect it from rusting and hopefully this will last a little while before I have to repaint it so this is the final wood stove that I built this is the door and how you basically load your wood so you're what if we're just gonna end up going directly in here like so once you have that lacquer up then just a little latch over here that lets you close it up how you control the fire is over here so there's a spring-loaded air intake and so I can just control how much air I give the fire if I leave it all the way open obviously it's gonna get up pretty hot pretty quick and then all the way close if I want to choke it out and basically stop it from burning that's how it does it and then once you're done burning for a while you're gonna collect ash and so to do that and get rid of it basically you can see inside here there's a hole and everything slopes down to that area and if I show you underneath here you can see this cap could easily be unscrewed to empty out your ash after you've burned a couple fires I might plan to eventually add a gasket to this door here and in the future potentially cut out this and the add nice piece of tempered fire glass I think that would make it really nice but for now I just want to test it out as it as is thanks for watching be sure to stay tuned for the woodstove installation video

Channel: Rafael Ellis-Rech

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Length: 11min 14sec (674 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 11 2020