Samuel Adams

Clifford,
Yep, that looks like what I was going after , using a little thinner (cheaper) materials, but something just like that. Thanks for sharing your pics and If I build this thing, I will do the same. I have a question for you. After building this stove, how much more efficient would you say it is than just a regular small wood burning stove, and in what way. Does it extract more heat from the same wood you think?
I have aquired a gas water heater which I will use for the inner barrel and the tube going up the center of it for the exhaust riser and j tube since they are made from steel that is about twice as thick as barrel steel. The water heater vessel placed inside the 55gal drum should give me about 3" on both sides making a common cavity that I will fill up with pearlite to insulate the firebox. I also have the 2 open top 55gal drums and I should start construction soon. Thanks again for sharing your ideas, your stove looks awesome.

Oh and one more question: the top of the riser is at 1.5" below the top of the upper barrel in the standard design, I was just gonna use the same dimension , how close is yours from the top and would you change that if you could?
thanks

Matt,
Thanks for the reply, I think that is very similar to what Im gonna build. I keep wondering why the combustion chambers in these stoves are so small, are they that efficient, because it looks like you would have to load it every 30 minites. My woodburning stove has to be loaded again about every couple of hours now and thats what Im looking to avoid with this new design.

Here
http://s64.beta.photobucket.com/user/mobiusmobius/library/vert%20BB
is a link that should work to a photobucket album with alot of pics of the vert babbinngton burner

Here
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8541078231/m/9201068341/p/1
is a link to the original posting of this idea.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this design. I used to cast machine and sell the burner dishes, but there are a couple of ways to put something together just as good from a frying pan that you can get at the store. Believe me, I am the king of cobbling something together from scrap to keep from buying something, and you can use the concept if you want

Does anyone know the practical real size of the size of the combustion chamber that I should design??

Hello, this is my first post to this forum. I like it alot and there is so much collective information and expertise. I currently use a small wood burning stove to heat my house and although it heats the house, it consumes alot of wood and I can tell it is not very efficient. I really like the rocket stove design and would like to build one but I expect to sell this house in a year or 2 and I dont think most people around here would even understand what the thermal bench was and it wouldnt appeal to them. Just like our culture, looks are more important than function ... which is sad, but it is the way things are now. Nevertheless I would like to use this design so I have come up with an adaptation of the existing design and I would like you guys to give me your opinions on it and see if there are any weak points or any room for improvement. My goal here was to make this thing lite, cheap and removeable. I would use
2 - 55gal drums,
1 - 35gal drum,
one single barrel burner kit http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202398323/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=barrel+stove+kit&storeId=10051#.UOcBmHcS98M
some sections of flue pipe for the j tube and inner riser tube
some larger tube for the outer riser tube

all fitted and welded together. I would probably make the exhaust / flue make a few turns in the house before going into the chimney adaptor and notice everywhere there is a common area like the common cavity inside the 35 gal drum, but inside the 55 gal drum, there would be pearlite insulation packed in the space to act as insulation for the firebox and the heat riser.
On another note, I designed an oil burner a few years ago for my biodiesel setup that is instant on and unclogable, it uses just about any type of oil and produces alot of heat, if you guys are interested, I post diagrams, pics and plans here. Thanks for any help