Great ideas I have another White wood ashes is up there with the best insulators. You are burning wood Don’t throw away the ashes Use them instead of buying insulation Yep lots of stuffing around containing wood ashes around pipes Try wood ashes instead of sand
You're a very skilled fabricator! Thanks for the uploads. These videos are great! P.S If your hammer was as sharp as your kitchen knife, you'd save yourself $$$ on elbow grease
Thanks for your great vid. It showed me exactly what i needed to know 😄. They are coming to my local ALDI in a week. One question: consumables? Are they generic or only available for this machine? Does it come with many replacement bits? I’m a plasma cuttin’ newbie!
So my machine is a little bit on the older side now and for all I know they've updated things as they tend to do, but mine came with a few extra consumables and all the bits and pieces needed to get going. (Accept the air compressor of course) Mine used standard consumables I can't remember exactly what they're called that I was able to identify them and purchased a consumable kit off eBay for cheap.
Thanks for your reply! Again very useful info and I just read another comment about using MIG gel to prolong the tip life. I took the “Subs” hint and subscribed: now to work my way through your back catalogue 😀. Great work- I’m pleased to “subs” to an Oz RU-vidr 👍
for the non-metric folks (american), 1 mm = 0.040" , so the rule is 1 amp/0.001"! you just need to know your fraction-to-decimal equivalents of course if you don't have any decimal measuring tools...
Thanks for sharing this educational video and explaining the welding process. There is far more physics and mathematics involved in this skill. Kudos to your video editor for all of the special effects. Quite nice. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings with your family. Peace brother
Great stuff Stevo. You're an inspiration as usual. I've used pulse a lot in the beginning, particularly on the sub 1mm ss. I haven't had a workshop for a year, so hardly ever tig. I did manage to get a fresh Argon and a commission for some repair welding on sum fg bins recently. It was tricky, and I'd forgotten the setip of pulse, didn't have scrap to practise on. I managed to get myself comfortable enough to ht the job done neatly, in a working factory by using (a bit too much) gas flow. When i came to finish it was less busy and I was able to tirn thd flow right down. As you know, the problem with repairs is being able to clean up everything before starting. Packaging tape on machinery is the bain of my life, and we don't love acetone either. My cheapo Toolshed dc only $1k Tigger box got the customer happy and me paid😊
Mate thanks for takking the time to explain things in plain language that most of us can understand. Really like your video and it is definitely by far the best tig vid I have seen!!!!
This video was really interesting, I watched it despite my TIG welder not even having a pulse mode. I have built a 1.5kg combat robot that uses a TIG welded stainless steel chassis tub, and I've been finding the TIG really fun. My welds aren't pretty but I've been prioritising even penetration and heating over a neat bead because I'm grinding it down and polishing it anyway.
My favorite style of torch actually doesn't have a back cap, and the tungsten goes straight up the barrel. I hold it just like a pencil. I also usually use the smaller style torch because I like working with thinner material.
The comment at the end about getting a good welder is the gotcha tho - for instance I was almost tempted - ALMOST - by a Xcelarc Viper 200P DC. It has pulse and HF start! for about $NZ1000! OK, it doesn't have AC for aluminium, but HF! Pulse! Remote! an 8m torch/hose! Except I checked the manual. The pulse mode is kneecapped, it has no control except frequency, and the base current is set to a fixed 40% of the peak current, and the pulse with is set to a fixed 60% of the cycle. So it simply cannot do a 15% base current with 25% on time. Your comment about above 40% pulse width - 'you may as well be welding DC'? Yeah, that's this welder's only option. DC, or "basically DC". The starting point for 'good welder' seems to be $NZ1900...
I bought their 195 Max. It retails for NZD $1500, but I upgraded the TIG torch to an 8m T2 torch, cost me $1750 all up. Pulse function works on TIG & Stick which is great for aluminium Arc welding. Whilst it does not have AC, you can still DC weld aluminium very well using old school tricks.
You really do get what you pay for my first couple of welders were on the basic side and if I could do it again I wouldn't have spent my money on them. I would have gone straight to a decent machine. Not sure if they are Captain is available in New Zealand but their machines are value for money.
@@LittleAussieRockets I have to operate off a 10 amp plug & was going to get the Excel Arc 200 ACDC (Unimig) but it does not have Pulse Sick, just Pulse TIG so went the 195 Max. No Arc Captain down here & Amazon doesn't appear to offer the ACDC machine fro shipping to NZ. I will pick up a good second hand machine offering AC but I am enjoying playing around with spool gun welding Ali as well as recently started DC TIG welding Ali using Flux.
@@draincctv8659 doesn't look like that model is available any more, looks like they're dropping a new version soon but it isn't in any of the usual places like George Henry, TradeZone, Welding Tech etc yet
Great video! Appreciate the time and patience you put into designing this fantastic stove. Will you be getting anymore of the Wokkett Stoves in stock? Thank you!
I see no point at all in using sand. The water is a better substance both to store and to transport heat. Unless you need temperatures over 100 Celsius :)
A very interesting and informative video. One question regarding transferring the water to the shower/sink. If it's an open system, how do you get the water to the destination and mix it to a suitable temperature? I am thinking about doing a project like this, but my system is (electric) mains pressure, but I'm not keen on relying on my battery storage to power the HWS. I do take on board your warning about connecting this to a pressured system though. Keep up the great work!
и так. сделано аккуратно, никаких вопросов по сварке. вопрос в технологии, просто взять и выбросить 3 плоскости нагрева из 4? посмотри что такое Самовар.
I think I know the answer to this question but would like to hear your answer so I can offer a solution. Why not have everything insulated and have a recirculation pump so that you don't get a steam lock?
@@LittleAussieRockets one solution would be a peltier device. It uses heat differential to create electricity. You could use it on the side of the rocket stove and when it gets hot the pump would turn on automatically. No solar, battery required. That way you could have insolation in the unit and it would be super efficient.
Great video. I am going to build a similar water heating system and I will use sand batteries and in floor heat. I like the idea of the open system so it won’t explode. I am going to use your idea of having a tank to feed the system, and I will install a simple water float on the cool side . I want to use solar water heater panels too and heat my greenhouse and try to grow year round. I am also considering heating an area around my trees to hopefully get a little earlier start in spring with excess heat. I don’t know exactly how heating under the trees will work, but I once had a cast iron ball that I was told was used to burn under trees to prevent frost from damaging them. I have never forgotten that idea although I have never heard anyone else mention that. Anyway, I want to be able to live off grid and leave one of my nephews a place where they can live cheap and will have a well equipped shop. I almost have everything I have ever wanted, except a young healthy body to continue to be able to work. Getting old sucks.
All I can say is OUTSTANDING. Outstanding welding, outstanding explanation of what your doing and your an outstanding Aussie having a red hot go. I'm keen to see a version 3 as I can tell your not 100% happy and when you sell them put my name down (seriously). I have a little property north of Newcastle and plenty of timber lol.
Interesting that you were using kitty litter pellets for fuel. By chance was the litter used or fresh? :) Would be an interesting way to recycle materials. Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother
Hi Steve Great work as always. I've learned a lot from you, you know. Since I spend loads of time on process control on machines like you build, my first thought was that a system to control (regulate) the air flow is needed. You know the fire triangle? Well, I think the air your vac delivers is cooling the burn chamber. That coupled with lack if insulation reduces the effectiveness of the setup. Especially since you designed it for a fuel with larger diameter and far higher calorific value. An ability to reduce the speed of the vac, or divert the output would allow you to tweak and optimise the burn over a range of fuels and so on. Much admiration from Auckland NZ
Yeah it could all do with a bit of a tune-up. I've left the burn chamber uninsulated to get a longer service life out of the stainless steel, I found when you insulate it you go outside of the working temperature of 304 stainless steel 865 C. I should probably make one entirely out of ceramics but for now and the things that I use it for, melting aluminium for casting and heating up the odd bit of steel so I can pound it with a hammer, it does ok but it could do better for sure. Hope you're doing well over there in New Zealand, it's not getting too cold I hope. 👍
@@LittleAussieRockets I spent some hours cutting and chopping firewood, now out for a walk in shorts and T. South Island gets the brunt of the cold. We have a standard box fire in the house. The economy here is tite, but I have a continuous feed of ad hock work and a new packaging venture in the pipeline 😁
I’m imagining a double chamber pellet feed tube, where you have sort of a gate halfway down, so you can open the top lid and add pellets, then close the lid and flip the gate to drop the new pellets down into the main feed chamber, thus eliminating the smoke and back flow of air while adding more pellets.
Here is the tour itinerary; Sunday December 8th, Cairns Community Christmas Carols. Monday December 9th, Innisfail Shire Hall. Tuesday December 10th, St James Cathedral, Townsville. Wednesday December 11th. Day Off. Townsville & Magnetic Island. Thursday December 12th. Holy Trinity Church, Bowen. Friday December 13th. Day Off and Orchestra to travel on the Spirit of Queensland. Saturday December 14th. Coolum Civic Centre, Sunshine Coast. Sunday December 15th Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. Night off! Monday December 16th. Lazenby Hall, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales. Tuesday December 17th. Visit Country Music Hall of Fame, Tamworth, NSW. Performance at Dubbo Theatre, Dubbo, NSW. Wednesday December 18th. Dubbo and overnight stay at Western Plains Zoo. 'ZooSnooze' glamping program. Thursday December 19th. Morundah Opera House (Shed). Stay overnight at Holt farm. Friday 20th. December return to MGS, Melbourne to unload equipment and return rental truck. Mark
@@LittleAussieRockets Well I thought that I would let you know because myself and one of the other Maintenance guys will be driving the Support Truck filled with the bulky equipment.
Great to see another video from you Steve! 😊 Good to see the chicken supervisor is at work and patrolling for any bugs or tasty mice in your workshop. As far as your forge is concerned, I would just stick with the 'palm' (?) nuts you were harvesting from your friend's farm. From the sounds of it they burn better and hotter and only cost you a little bit of time to source. That sounds like the best fuel of all! In fact I would suggest that you check out how well they work in your house heater so you can save time and money on fuel to heat your house this winter? The slasher skids looked a treat! 😊 Hope that you and your family are all well and your chickens are providing you with lots of eggs and entertainment! 😅 Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 PS What part of Queensland are you in as the School Orchestra will be doing a North to South Tour in December, from Cairns down through a couple of towns with the final show in Southern New South Wales.
Thanks Mark it's always great to hear from you. Where in the Scenic Rim area inland from Brisbane, well if you drew a straight line from Brisbane to Warwick we're nearly in the middle. And I agree palm nuts are the go. They create a great coal bed and packed full of oil, nearly the perfect fuel.
I have messed with a waste oil blast furnace nozzle. It used compressed air to atomize the oil. It sounded like a jet engine and that's no exaggeration, it was nearly impossible to work around. So I never developed it any further but adding a drip feeder to this furnace would be a game changer for sure.
This is excellent. Im going to have to buy 1 of these from you. Im in Melbourne Australia. How much do you sell these for. Awesome and very clever. You've got a subscription from me. 👌👍
@@LittleAussieRockets thankyou so much. I just looked at your website and I found a stove I plan on buying when finances allow. I'm actually living off grid in a permanent camp spot so a rocket stove would be a blessing. I've been using little butane stoves too but I want something I can heat water in as well as cook. Thankyou again mate. Be in touch soon 👍
