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Hi, so debating between this and a reburner regency 2450. I don’t want to burn us out of the family room where insert would be. Would also like to enjoy a nice looking fire. Are you saying it not practical to be in same room as unit when it’s running properly? Would a reburner be better suited for my needs?
That is beautiful. I collect the SB mugs too but I’m only up to like 38 lol I’ve got a few on my list from places I’ve been before Starbucks was even a thing. Running out of shelf space too and I just can’t seem to find what I want. My favorites are Disneyland and San Francisco 😊 Great job!
Nice...as far as plates...I went to metal supermarket and got them to cut 1x6 inch flat stock to make new plates. Popped indexing pins in them and they are in there nice...way better than the cast plates. Nice mods, good ideas.
It's not cheap? you bought this? it literally took me 45 minutes to make from scrap metal ... 🤣🤣 and yet you're "Matt of Many Trades" you sure about that?
this has to be one of the worst tool demonstrations I've ever seen 🤣🤣 like, what is this? were you going for the "stop motion" effect? lmfao ... I'm almost certain you're supposed to show the tool being used, not skip through to different points of the progress 🤣🤣 ffs ... I think I know now why you bought the tool
Had a staff of 15 once, and had every computer screw up they made left up to me to fix. I'd fix it, and they'd look amazed that I was so smart. And every single time I'd say, "ask me how I know that."
Matt, I’m currently in the market for a fly press myself…. I’ll have to build a table too, since it doesn’t come with one… this is a cool video man .. I cant wait to buy mine
Great information, I have same exact saw, and purchased it for 75 bucks a few years ago. I'm glad to see these saws are finding a purpose, I wasn't sure in a new future shop design I'd keep it, but now I see a definite reason for its use.
I have doors like that too that have no metal stripping to attach too. What size/length screws did you use for this? I’m scared of punching through my door. Seems like I’d just be catching insulation in the garage door if I screw into it but obviously yours is doing great!
Your doors are probably inch and 1/ quarter inch and a half thick. I used three-quarter inch screws that were into three-quarter inch material so untruth only about a quarter of an inch protrude into the door insulation. What holds the racks to the door is not substructure or insulation it’s the sheet metal. Tap a little pilot hole and use sheet metal screws. Not self tappers. Don’t over torque. Just tighten them until they’re snug. These were up in my old shop for two years and the door went up and down every day. They’re mounted in my current shop on a 14 foot high rollup door that goes up two or three times a week there hasn’t been a single pull out or failure.
Probably. I had an auto focus issue with my camera and had a couple videos that I shot complete and just had to go with the footage that I had already shot.
Love my catalytic converter burns so nice saves me on a lot of wood I used both kind of stoves wood catalytic saves me so much money on wood I used probably half the wood than a stove without
Same. I know people complain about government oversight, blah blah blah, but it’s more efficient. It burns less wood and heats bejesus out of my house.
I don’t, but it depends on your paint. A SW exterior house paint is thick as putty and would have to be thinned. I sprayed with a quality interior trim paint that is fairly thin - Ben Moore Advance.
Nice. Gald I didn't have to look as hard. Now that I know where to hit it, I was able to stick a goose neck air blower down from the top blade space, through the belt and hit that worm gear. I have a built in cabinet around the saw and while it's possible, getting to that swing opening can be a lot of work. Blowing it out from up there worked, even though I couldn't see what I was hitting. Lifted and sank the blade at different intervals to get it working again. much easier to use the wheel now as well!
Looks like you are using the throat plate levelers incorrectly. the buttons on the table should be higher and on the plate they should be extended so as to "lock" under the buttons on the cast iron, the an allen wrench from the top to level the throat plate, this prevents the back end of the plate from lifting. Also you have a thin kerf blade with limiting lugs behind the carbide teeth - the limiters prevent the brake from fully engaging the Brake, and thus allow the blade to make more rotation after deployment.
Since you have a closed loop in the firebox, a simple way to heat the whole home, assuming you have attic access is to install a small insulated duct from the fireplace room, through the attic to the other end of the house. A small inline duct fan will circulate the air for pennies end-to-end of the home and really improve the effectiveness of the stove.
I had something similar in a house years ago. That was a single story ranch. And it worked great. My current home is a bi-level mid-century, and I also have duel Heat pumps on each level with head units in each bedroom. The fans in them are super efficient and when I have the fireplace on I almost never turned the internal fan on in the fireplace, because it is a little energy inefficient. Instead, I’ll turn the fans on low in all the units on and open the doors and the heat circulates all over the house levels. Works great. I stayed in an A-frame once that had an 8 inch tube/duct that ran to the very top of the peak to almost floor level that had a fan that drew the hot air in the peak down. It made it super comfortable and fix the issue of the main area being comfortable and the sleeping loft being hotter than the fifth level of hell. The fan on the duct seem to have been a large DC computer fan, so I’m sure that it was just sipping pennies a day as well
The country where you get an inversion later in the air stagnates in winter, the only way that you can legally buy a woodfired heat source (stove insert, regular wood stove, pellet stove, etc..) is to have one with the catalytic converter, installed to reborn the particulates in the hot instead of venting. Most cities have passed similar ordinances from New York to Chicago to Dallas to Portland. if you live in an urban area, you can’t use grandpa’s potbelly stove that was in the cabin for 55 years. It makes it a little more complicated to light, but my home growing up was heated solely on wood heat so I have some experience and I will say that stoves and inserts with the catalytic converter I have longer burn times and I use less wood in them so they are more efficient and a better use of . I don’t like how much more expensive they are, and I think that the expense is directly reflective of the fact that they mandated by law, but the return of investment in comparison is only for five additional years and a good woodstove will last you for your lifetime. With the newer models, you may after 10 years have to replace the catalytic brick, but on mine it costs $250 is fairly easy to get to and I bought an extra with the stove and it’s on the top shelf of the pantry just in case I need it in a decade or so.
Thanks. There are commercial options available now, but my home-built ones are still working great and are not plastic. Send a pic when you build yours :-)
