Jack Pent

The stove does get hot enough to burn properly meaning ~no smoke and from my pictures attached you can see that the steel I've used has held up nicely so far and it's been in nightly use as its been below 32 degrees nightly during this winter we've been getting here in Arkansas I like it especially because it's easy to control if I want it to be a 'rocket stove' (3x the heat) level where its glowing a dull red ( I don't like it to be a bright orange but have gotten it that high!!) I just fill her up until the coals are nice and hot and fill it up horizontally and vertically with wood and it'll switch to the rocket stove mode if I want to be at normal stove heat I just throw in a few sticks horizontally. Generally I get it up to rocket stove heat an hour or two before I go off to bed and the heat from the heatmass really coasts well until around 4am I go to sleep at around 10.

Here's the pictures to prove it first one's the horizontal glowing a dull red second one's the inside of the horizontal and I must say I love my ashbox and cleanout door- no way would I have been happy with vacuuming the ash





One thing I'd like to change would be a slight angle to help the smoke go the right way, and have a 45 welded onto the 90 at the feed bin to allow logs to slide in horizontally much easier but besides the smoky start-ups the stove has been much superior to our old Blaze King.. might as well use that thing as a refrigerator now..

Thanks a lot allen and nice video Satamax once my steel pipe gets eaten up I think i'll try and copy your idea that was nice work with the firebrick and the steel frame.. I think I got quite a few years to go though and yeah.. I just wanted to show people how I did it and what I did I know its not the best video and that my words are a little loopy but I imagine some folks might benefit from it the only real issue has been that I spaced the grate too far apart at a 1/2 inch and it allows the coals to fall through so if the ashbox is empty its difficult to get a fire going so I am going to weld some more rebar on that bad boy to make it a quarter inch gap, and my clean out door has a gap that I had put BBQ gasket around but it still melted.. so that works against my suction down the feed tube a little bit but other than that when the smoke turns to steam boy howdy I am a warm puppy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxFHBxHGPkg

Here's my near completed functioning rocket stove

Quote: ''we lose some of the insulate qualities of the perlite and need between
2'' and 3'' thickness''

I'm not looking to insulate the pipe but keep oxygen out away from the steel so it can't rust and just let the pipe itself be the insulation

Nice sonotube idea

hmm, ok i think I'll do without a lid for my feeder tube and I'll have to think over buying that book.. this ones just going to be a prototype to decide if i actually want to take out my wood stove in place for this.. not sure i am going to get used to havin to use smaller logs and feeding it a lot more.. if not it goes out to the shop!

..i'd still like to avoid using firebrick since i already have the pipe, could I use some 85% perlite 15% clay mixture to slather the inside of my pipe with about another quarterinch in thickness.. I'd like to try and keep it round since thats more efficient than square so ive read.. I'd also keep it smooth too if possible and thanks so much! sorry if its difficult to understand me...

Ok so I have some 8'inch diameter pipe I am going to cut in half at a angle so I can simply put the two pieces together and then weld her shut resulting in a 90 degree angle as depicted

here with a lil' bit of a gap to get the point across..

I imagine this will be just as efficient if not more so than a 90 degree curve like this


I am going to make the gap where the heat rises out of the Jtube to the top of the barrel 3 inches for plenty of air flow the rest of the system will consist of used stovepipe no less than 8'in in diameter to keep the air flow going.

Since my 8 inch pipe is 1/4 thick I am not going to use firebrick I think that should prove to be plenty of insulation and will save $2.49 a brick for about 75$ worth in savings cheapest I could find around here few stores near me stock any, I am still going to use a much cheaper brick maybe broke up cinder blocks which I have a few of and some mason's sand and some clay.

my barrel length is 36 1/2 inches and my pipe is 8 inches at the bottom and you get 8+36 1/2= 44 1/2 for the length of the pipe going up into the barrel I have read that my ground pipe should be half the size of that so 22 1/4 can I make this 11 inches without any negative impact on heat/draw?

The barrel will have a detachable lid for easier cleaning I am also going to try and make little metal cleaning doors with hinges and a anchor for the door to stay put in the clay probably too much work but it'd be nice come cleaning time instead of taking a hammer to my clay to get access to it.



This drawing would be for the hot air leaving the barrel and heating the stove-pipes which I would then build a couch over.

I am thinking about for my feed area instead of just making it brick making it out of metal and have a metal drawer with a insulated knob that would slide out and sever as my ash catcher and I would like to have this 2 inches below my 8inch diameter start of the jtube. Also up near the top have a metal damper to open and close to allow for extra air in case my log is plugging the entrance or I feel the stove just isn't getting the right amount of air. Would this metal section get really hot or would the air cool it down enough where it wouldn't? Also it doesn't matter how deep I make my ash tray does it?

Also I'm thinking about extending the height of the vertical feed tube and putting a hinged door up top that I can close cutting off air from that area but keeping a well placed mid section damper near where the fire would be going to keep the fire going but eliminate any threat of a fire crawling out the top maybe put a few good drill holes in it to keep a little bit of draft going through to get rid of any nasty smoke buildup.
Ok I think that covers it wew I think i'll do a nice video of how I made mine just for good internet karma.