Dragon Rocket Stove
Episode 3
Air Intake Pipe & Combustion Chamber
Outside Air Vent & Combustion Chamber for our Mus-Art Rocket Mass Heater
We installed more of the "guts" of the Dragon Rocket Stove - the air intake pipe and combustion chamber. Can't wait to get the sculpting of the Dragon!!!
Last Episode
http://mylittlehomestead.com/ep2-dragon-rocket-stove-foundation-firebox.html
http://mylittlehomestead.com/ep4-dragon-rocket-stove-exhaust-pipe-and-test-run.html
Shae aka Winter_Apple
November 4, 2016
Transcript of Video
Bree: Last time we installed the pedestal and the firebox on the Dragon Rocket Stove.
Bree: Before we begin covering the rocket stove with cob, the air inlet needs to be considered…
Gary: That’s going to be the mechanism that opens the flap inside the pipe.
So that I can regulate air coming into this inlet.
Shae: Okay.
Gary: The outside air coming in.
What’s important is this turn handle thing doesn’t get too far in our sculpture.
Dad and I have to figure out how the dragon sculpture will be formed
before he puts in the air intake pipe.
You can have it like crouched and then his tail come up.
We’re continuing to experiment with the rocket stoves.
This one we’re experimenting with the air vent.
Gary: When we need welding work, we go to Garen.
Gary: And what we’ve designed here is a flapper
we’ll be able to put in here that will flap open and closed.
To control the airflow from outside.
Garen: Open, closed. I can flip it and make it stop.
Gary: We’re going to move our hole over.
Garen: It’s going to be nice. We’re going to be able
to test the whole thing before we do any of the artwork.
Gary: Here, the shoulders are here, right?
Based on what Shae & I decide,
I install the intake pipe.
Gary: I’m gonna cement this little fella in.
Get in positioned right so we can have this air intake.
Bryson: Off, on. We want to be able to shut it off in case it doesn’t work. [laughs]
Gary: We have to regulate the air. We’ll have it wide open when the fire is burning the hottest.
That way it’s pulling as much from the outside that it can.
Bryson: This thing it like a jet engine.
When the ashes fall down, we’ll have to have a clean out down here.
This is going to be the last corner before it goes out.
So it will be a place that ashes will collect. If there are any ashes.
Gary: So there is only two places. One is the firebox and the other place is right here.
Bryson: Let’s go over to the hoop barn and cut that one piece.
Gary: Let’s do it.
Now it’s time to build the combustion chamber.
We found some old parts off of an older one we built a while back.
One of the first ones that we did.
And we are going to take the top off of that one and put it one this one.
Gary: Taking a look at this one we did, the very first one we ever did.
I love the outside of it.
This old rocket stove is made from an old hot water tank.
Cut this off so we can get out out take.
And then just leave the top like it is and use it as the top.
Then this one is already made. All we have to do is drop it down an inch
and that will be our combustion chamber on the inside.
This is a linseed can like this one over here. An old linseed oil can.
There’s a 6 inch pipe in the middle.
Bryson: Cob around the outside.
Gary: Let’s modify this right now.
Bryson: Okay. So we make sure the barrel is going to fit.
We need this thing to be a foot because this is a 6 inch pipe.
It’s the 3 to 1 ratio. Bottom of here to here needs to be 18 inches.
Bryson: That looks really pretty.
Shelly: Gorgeous.
Bryson: Muscles…
Gary: It looks good to me.
Bryson: Let’s see where we are at here. Okay, I’m happy with that.
Gary: Let’s measure up now. We have to have 2 inches clearance.
Bryson: If you measure from right here Dad, down, that will give us plenty of room.
Garen stops by to show us his Thor helmet he has been working on for Comicon.
Bryson: It’s really cool.
Gary: It is really cool.
Bree: Stay tuned for next time as we continue building on our work on the rocket stove.
Hope you had a wonderful week and we’ll see ya back here next time.
Thank You
Garen: I need you to kinda help me out here.
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Shelly: It’s pretty much an experimentation every time we do one of these, isn’t it?
Gary: Yes, it is. It really is.
Bryson: Whoosh. Whoosh. Boom!
Bryson: The USA. Wait, it’s made in the USA. How often do you see that?
Shelly: Hey, hey.
Gary: Now, it’s time to find Bryson.
Bryson: Where is he? [laughs]
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We moved from the city to the country in 2005. Since then, we have been building structures, raising livestock and growing some of our own foods. We are crazy about family, nutrition and want the best for our growing family.
