Scott Farrell :So you built a Rocket stove out of metal, and it works- For Now! There is an old saying, for the guy with a hammer all problems are nails! I had a neighbor who drove
dump trucks for years, He was convinced all problems could be solved with a load or two of gravel. I certainly could not match your welding job- unfortunately, all Metal Rocket Mass
Heaters are doomed .Regardless of how many other Rocket Heater Type devices you have seen on U-Tube, You have not seen any recent pictures of 2-3 year old rocket Mass
Heaters RMHs because they don't exist !
With your present Mass-less system about 60% of your heat is going up the chimney, and you don't have a good idea whether you really want to proceed farther !
The first thing you
should have done was go to
Richsoil.com, clickon> the RMH/Energy Icon, and watch that whole series of videos, one of them about #6-#7-#8, will show
you how you should have burned the paint off of your barrel be for you made a Rocket -type heater out of IT !
Because you have some catching up to do, PLEASE! go to >
rocketstoves.com, to download your PDF Copy $15.oo, of Ianto Evans' book
'Rocket Mass Heaters", With
~100,000~ built world wide, Most of them have been made following 'The Book', and 95% of All the First Builds (that Worked) followed 'The Book'
You need to take down the tin that you have fastened to the wall completely and rehang it with a 2'' - 4'' air gap, other wise you will eventually have a fire behind the tin sheeting !
You can always take a Lit Bernzomatic Propane torch, and stick it down your feed tube, into your burn tunnel and warm things up that way Then use
newspaper as you start your
fire ! For the Good of the Craft ! Big AL !