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This kind of documentation on the wofati is awesome.

Thank you.
 
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We gave our pocket rocket a little mass to help it hold heat longer!
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Kristie Wheaton wrote:We gave our pocket rocket a little mass to help it hold heat longer!



Have you tried it yet? Did it hold the heat?


 
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Paul- yes we tried it yesterday an today. We are still tweaking it to get it to hold fire at night longer.
 
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just awesome looking!

I think I can see the log I peeled
 
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Adrien- I believe that log is already up...!!
 
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Did you line the barrel with anything? I always found it shocking how much heat a pocket rocket could generate--make the barrel glow white hot, flames shooting out the stack.

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