Daryl Prindle

Thomas Rubino, thanks again for your time. Here's my drawing.

Again, thanks for you time and expertise, Thomas. I need to show you a drawing I guess. How do I go about doing that?

Thank you, Thomas. I've been thinking about casting a 6" in a tub (or maybe wood like yours) w/ refractory cement, perlite and sodium silicate (waterglass) for more temperature support. Do you suggest the reduced air flow w/ tapered fronts?

https://permies.com/u/160094/thomas-rubino, I been looking for that cast-cob idea. Looks like a 6", right? How did it work out? How did the 5 gallon bucket work for the feed? I like that you have/had a lid. What other dimenensions did you have? Did you use tapered pieces in front of the reduced air flow into the bottome of the riser? Many questions, I know. Your Shorty Core is beautiful, but I live in a mobile home. Oh well.

Thank you Thomas and Burra. I'll check it out.

Yes, but sealing it looks to be an insurmountable problem for me - No welding skill. Now if there's another method to seal a strat chamber I'm all eyes.

Regarding the RMH bench, I live in a mobile home and weight is a concern. Yes, I could shore up underneath, but my 74 yr old body says, "Shut yo mouth, boy." So I've been searching for lightweight thermal mass ideas. I've run across experiments w/ salt (as in water softener salt) and bulk talcum powder. Soapstone is the hard version of talc. Has anyone tried either or both of these?

We live in a mobile home in Arkansas and have wonderful south facing windows. I've built 2 - 23° tilted solar collecters (6"x2'x4') attached to the south side painted black inside, calked and glazed w/ greenhouse plastic, w/ aluminized 3" dryer vent pipe also black beside 2 windows. I was able to run the vent from my central electric heat duct to the bottom and then a vent from the top into each window. I have a small solar panel powering a fairly large computer CPU fan on each one that provides over 140° air inside. I will upgrade to larger fans as these are underpowered. If the solar panel would follow the sun it would be more effecient but it gives us significant supplemental heat. We live in the country so the esthetic aspect is not relevant, for us anyway.