Invent Design Make

Lets make a cool little stove top ecofan. A fan that uses the warmth of the wood burner to power itself, and blows that heat about the place, essentially aiding in the exchange of heat from the fire to the room. Ok so that’s the sales line anyway, I must admit to being a bit […]

It was time to do a bit of maintenance on the shop stove, so I thought, why not make something of an assessment video. It was always very experimental after all, and its been a while since the last Stove update. If your interested in making a wood burning stove, or are ‘fire-nerd’ inclined, get […]

The stove is burning away as we write this, making for a nice cosy workshop :D There have been a few problems though and a number of modifications since we first got it going. Most irksome amongst these was smoke escaping into the shop space – not good. Anyway, we’ll come to that, first lets have a quick look at […]

We have been testing the experimental wood stove and heating the workshop for a while now, but for the sake of completeness and order lets have a look at the heat exchanger build. Just as a recap on the design: The heat exchanger is a completely separate unit to the burn chamber. That way the burn chamber can […]

Super insulated burn unit We have begun lining the inside of the wood stove with heat proof insulating materials. The first thing to do was get a good amount of insulation down for the stove floor. For this we used some insulating fire brick type material that came from Dave’s chimney reconstruction. It was a little oddly […]

Just a little update on the sideways burning stove for you. The door is now opening and shutting quite nicely – the tensioning latches you can see below will hold the loading chamber door against the glass rope sealing strip (once we put it in). We picked up a few of the latches from e-bay […]

Beginning to Weld! Ok so the weather is going bazaarly hot, what better way celebrate than by donning the welding gauntlets, sweaty mask and continuing the sideways-burning, self-loading stove project (see the first instalments if that makes no sense). We get the welding ball rolling by tack welding the primary and secondary burn chambers together.   […]

Wood Stove From Scrap – 1 Design Notes Update: to see a video review of this wood burner after five years of use see https://goo.gl/h9Jxsf. We have got to the point where there is no longer a gale blowing through the workshop (yay!): doors are shutting, and fiddly insulation and air tightness detailing is well under way. The […]