Gino Di Serio

Have any of you seen this guy's stove? very well thought out and works great.

I really appreciate your inputs and I thank you all, i do have the book, maybe my understanding is not the best of it but also are willing to experiment to see if it can be improved as there are infinite possibilities of designs. Will continue to play around when I get a chance, have my father in hospital at the moment.

here are photos, if you look at the feed section, i have a lid and air hole on the back so it should not make a difference how high? Yes I am only using a 5 foot chimney at the moment to try it out. will try some minor stuff to see if we can get it to suck before destroying it.

Ok great to know, thanks.

Thanks for your help fellos. I am wondering, the square tube vs the round tube for the Burn tunnel, has this been tested or is it just theory? From my understanding, if you can get a vortex in a round I believe it would mix better and flow better than square?

I mixed the cement with 50% perlite

ok thanks Erik. from what I read as long as the area between the barrel and the riser is more than the area of the riser inside diameter, it should be enough which it is? Also the riser is suppose to be twice the burn chamber length which it is. will try some changes.

i put together a rocket stove, it is not installed yet, the barrel is 14" by 42" high, the riser is 6" diameter x 32" high and 11" diameter around filled with refractory cement., also the whole bottom of barrel is filled with the cement up to the bottom of the 6" exhaust near the bottom of the barrel and over the burn chamber on the opposite end of barrel. I have 2" clearance on the top of the barrel to the tip of the riser. The burn chamber is 5" diameter by 20" long and curves up at 90 degrees to meet the 6" riser. the wood feed area is 7"diameter by 20" tall. When I lite the wood it tries to burn upward instead of being sucking into the horizontal 5" burn chamber and smokes. sometimes it sucks but mostly not. I have a 90 at the exhaust with a 5 foot chimney just to try it. Any ideas as to why its not rocketing?