rocket stove guide

do any body know how to build a welding  rocket stove with steps and guides of the rocket stove?
any tip or fact will be helpful since i am new but really want to start!
so any knowledge will be helpful please.
thank you

Hi John;  Welcome to Permies!

I like to build rocket mass heaters and they get too hot to use metal.
Rocket stoves are built with metal all the time.
Here is a link to a video showing construction of a welded metal rocket stove.    

And also a good place to start: rocket stoves Forum

Most info and resources can be found in threads that have been discussed in there!

Specific questions and all can then be answered as you learn more and more!

Good luck!  
Peace

thomas rubino wrote:Rocket stoves are built with metal all the time.

This is true, but as Paul pointed out when I showed him my metal rocket stove I had just bought, "Any rocket stove with metal is running inefficiently. The temps in an efficient rocket stove melt metal." This is true. A rocket stove working right is running temps that would melt metal. How do you make one that can get this hot? With fire bricks or kiln bricks.



See how much space is between the metal body and the fire, that is fire bricks. Does it make the stove heavier. Yep, it sure does. But those brick are there for a reason, to insulate the metal from the fire. They let the fire get hot enough to reburn the wasted gasses. This allows the rocket stove to be more efficient. Kiln bricks are lighter, but more fragile to impact. They are also a lot more insinuative. Which you use is up to you.


If your going to design a rocket stove please remember the bricks.

Hi Devin;  Nice looking rocket there and no doubt burning clean and with a long life. Would work very well in an all winter ice fishing shack.
Using bricks would make a lifetime little heater.

The thing is rocket stoves are generally built as a temporary heat and or cooking source. Ice fisherman , boy scouts , day campers.  
They are not going to use their rocket long enough to worry if it is 98% efficient or if after a number of years it needs replaced.

We don't know what the OP intends to use his rocket for.
I think he is just excited about the new idea and want's to build one NOW...  
I remember that feeling well on my first mass heater, and I have it now being on the verge of building my first two batch box's.