I drill a 3 inch hole in the bottom of those and use a stainless sink strainer to keep the wood pellets from falling out, and it gives a great airflow. Also I have used stainless scrubbies for that purpose. If you drill your outside bottom holes around the perimeter about two inches higher, it gives a better gas production throughout the burn. Thanks that was great!
Ah I’ve seen the pellet mod for lots of stoves! That’s a great idea. Someone on Reddit mentioned something about putting the holes in different places to get a better secondary burn. Thanks for watching!
I love watching people make DIY budget gear with what are clearly NOT budget tools. That's not a troll. It's important to know how things are made, especially for those who don't posses those tools, because necessity is the Mother of Invention. We all learn as we go. Kudos for your effort. Cheers from the island of Montreal QC
@Jeff Spate thank you for watching. All my tools at budget tools lol. The Rigid hand drill I bought at a garage sale for $25 with the impact driver and 2 batteries. But it came with no charger. Two weeks later my local tool store was having a tent sale outside and had a charger without a package that looked like it would work. 15 bucks was a gamble I was Willy to take. And it worked. The drill press I bought off Craigslist from a guy who’s father had just passed away and it was his. $20 and he helped me get it up stairs and into my van lol. Right place right time. Cheers from NY my friend
@@AdventureswithSpackmann I'm with you all the way. I have made budget tool purchases just like you, because I am, after all, a really cheap bastard. I got interested in the budget end of things by watching how less advantaged people in remote villages in third world countries made complex items without power tools of any sort. It also bears mentioning that the raw materials they use are very different from what you and I have access to. If you get a few free moments look at how wood gas stoves are made around the world. It's an awesome rabbit hole to tumble in to. Keep on rocking in the free world.
@@jspate61 that’s cool man. I have seen some rocket stoves from around the world and you’re right it is an awesome rabbit hole to tumble in to. Keep on rocking to man!
@Chris H my memory is pretty bad but I sincerely hope I remember you! Thank you so much for subscribing and thinking I’ll be internet famous some day. Fingers crossed. You got to go check out my giveaway video before I do the drawing and enter to win!
I went on a two month biking trip with an Ohuhu Camping Stove, available on Amazon for around 20 bucks. It's good for cooking on as the flame is not so big, still lacks a functional burn-control system though, as all gasifiers I've seen so far do.
Super cool build. People leave thermoses in classrooms on campus all the time. I'm going to keep my eyes pealed for a good double wall to do this to now.
I've been thinking about using a vacuum insulated thermos to make a smokeless stove for a bit now, glad to see it CAN actually work, though I still have to figure out if I can manage to get the holes made with my more limited options for tools. Thanks for posting!
@twistedbabyrose you’re welcome. You can always punch holes through it with a nail or something like that then make the holes bigger with something else. Have fun. Thanks for watching
@Th3Unf0rg1v3n95 thank you so much for the kind words my friend!!! Maybe one day I’ll make it to 1 million!!!!!! So glad you enjoy my content, it means a lot. Thank you so much for watching!
@@AdventureswithSpackmann Will do! Love your show man. Keep it up! Do you ever watch Steve Wallis on RU-vid? Stealth camping just go and do whatever kind of guy you know? I love it man. You remind me a lot of him with your stealth video and the Dollar tree items. Lol... Good stuff! Just now cracking a Step 2 at 8 in the morning on my porch with my Yili stove blazing!! Cheers 🍻
@Floyd Lee Mullins II wel it’s 5 o’clock somewhere lol. Of course I’m a fan of his! His content is great! That’s where the step 2 comes from. There are more and more people picking up on that and it’s awesome! Thank you so much for enjoying my content. I have a blast creating it!
@@AdventureswithSpackmann Lol.. I figured you knew who he was. Hell yeah man keep it up!! I love this shitt and thanks for replying back to me oh. That's really cool man I would like to drink a step2 with you and just chill one of these days. Maybe in the future who knows right?
@Wolf Den that’s awesome! Whenever you do if it’s not too much trouble send me a picture of it or video. I’m on Instagram and Facebook or even grab my email address from my RU-vid page. I would love to see it! Enjoy and thank you so much for watching!
First off I think you did a fantastic job, I was almost about to do this but I thought to myself that the solo stove that's about that size is approximately 70 bucks, which means it's pretty good bang for your buck when you consider you're going to buy the thermos for 10 bucks and then to make something really nice with nice clean holes it's gonna probably take you about two hours, if you consider your time is worth about $30 an hour.
Great point! I personally don’t count the build time into cost. I enjoy fabricating so it was play time. But I can see what you mean. Glad you enjoyed the idea. Thanks for watching
@Tom Smith thank you! You’re welcome. When I saw the thermos a lightbulb just went off. Such a good starting point for a stove. Have fun! Thanks for watching!
@James Jones yeah I hadn’t either until I was walking through Walmart and saw it and it just hit me, that’s a stove waiting to happen lol. Thanks for watching
a TLUD stove (top lit up draft stove) is designed to be lit on the top of the fuel load and the load is then left to burn down intact without adding any other fuel. This is crucial for efficient pyrolysis to take place. Lighting the stove at the bottom of the fuel load turns the stove into a hobo stove with a secondary burn. Curious if you had a specific primary to secondary air hole ratio? Nice compact stove build with a good looking flame. You can test your stove for its burn efficiency by boiling some water then checking the bottom of the pot for soot. The cleaner the bottom of the pot the more efficient the burn of the stove is. Efficient stoves burn hotter cleaner and longer for a given size of fuel load. Curious also does your stove leave any charcoal when it burns out or does it transition on its own and burn up all the charcoal. The charcoal burns hotter and with a bluer flame.
@moray james my first test left only ash. My second test I put out with water so I didn’t let it burn out. As for hole ratio, I did not. In my second test I put the pot on when it was still starting a soot did form then. Thanks for watching!
@@AdventureswithSpackmann so you got a full burn on your stove if all you had left was ash that's important in a small compact stove. I have built stoves with small tin cans and it is a real rabbit hole to get a smokeless burn from start to finish but it is interesting and challenging to figure out. Happy camping and enjoy your stove.
@@AdventureswithSpackmann if you are interested here is a stove design not much different from yours which ticks off most every performance box and when adjusted for your height above sea level it can burn pretty much smokeless from start to finish. both the Mk1 and the Mk2 versions are excellent stoves. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w7ZLyyfMQ20.html. I use one of these as my reference stove and compare my own builds to it when comparing performance.
@@AdventureswithSpackmann Yes, but the quart paint can at my hardware store cost too much to seem like a deal! I am thinking coffee can and large beans can.
Stainless steel is some hard material. The chrome in it makes it hard. It'll dull even expensive Cobalt drill bits quick. Great idea, great video. Thanks, and God bless.
@Bayou Trapper thank you I’m glad you enjoyed. I thought the idea was great as well, one day I saw it on sale and it hit me, that’s a stove waiting to happen lol. God bless you as well and thanks for watching
Bro I LOVE the Genius at work sign LMFAO!! Great idea with the double layer Thermos that is actually genius lol every other video I have watched and that about 30 of them, they all involve having to have 2 different containers and a bunch of nuts n bolts. Great video man tnx for the great idea I'm gonna make one too . Cheers. Hope you had a good Christmas and have a great new year!
@Justin Hachey lmao I love that sign too! I try to get it in as many videos as I can lol. It fits into everyone perfectly. Glad you like the idea of the thermos. When the idea hit me, I was like it’s perfect! Thermoses come in all different sizes too, people pretty much give them away at yard sales too. When you make it, if you want to show me please find Adventures with Spackmann on Facebook or Instagram. I would love to see how it turns out. I had a great Christmas and hope you did as well. Happy New years. Thanks for watching
I’m think maybe make the holes inside with a dremmel tool and a cut off wheel. Stainless is hard on regular drill bits. Tungsten carbide might be a better choice. Great job over all, now to find a cheap large stainless thermos.
@tlangram 25 you’re right. Oxygen is being sucked in the bottom, then coming out the top holes and adding to the wood gas to ignite it causing secondary combustion. I know I said look at the flames coming out of the holes but I didn’t mean they were coming out of it, just coming from it. Thanks for watching
now you are closer to 500 than 400, in 2 days!! A cool DIY project! I bet you'll get a lot of good use out of that. I have my grandfathers drill bit kit as well..........the very same one by the looks. Awesome job man. I'd make one of those. Are you familiar with the channel Daves bullets and bushcraft? He does all kinds of DIY stoves. He has a cool channel
That’s awesome! I have a few of the drill bit sets like that one from him. Yeah it’s crazy how one video can jump your channel! I am not familiar with him but I’ll check him out. Thanks for watching man!
I don't know if you looked at my contraption. But I invented it to save charcoal.. Only one cup of charcoal can boil a cup of water first and then once burning well can cook a raw steak and sometimes you can snuff it for further use. The second burn is better for tender meats like chicken. But 2nd burn won't boil water unless there's 3 cups of used charcoal. The energy density of charcoal is on a par with gas or alcohol. And it's quite light to carry. I have made 3 grillers that nest like a Russian doll. I then use the smaller ones with sticks underneath the bigger one to light up the charcoal. If doing a lot of grilling for the family the little ones are ready to prelight some extra charcoal. I recently went out for a weekend and only had a small bag of charcoal about the size of a big big bag of chips /crisps and I cooked 20 raw sausages and two fish and 10 prawns and still had half a bag of charcoal left. Worth a try
Got mine done I put a piece of woven wire from a disposable grill topper and made it dome shaped and used about half a cup of pellets that thing made water boil and the flames came around the cup and almost to the top of the cup
Rather than fight the angle, I'd try just punching through both walls from the outside, and then close it off with a strip of stainless sheeting and a stainless Pipe Clamp.
Also if you make one, let me know how it turns out! Message me on Facebook “Adventures with Spackmann” or on Instagram. I’ve had one send me what he made already and would love to see more! Thanks again
Very cool! I have ab idea that i use on my drill press to keep round objects in check when i try to drill holes into it. I will share some pictures of the set up on your facebook page later.
I had to use the point and then a screwdriver to widen the holes. Will using a grinder blade to cut in the lower slats work instead of large drilled holes?
so cool... I mean HOT! I wonder about control. Is there a way to make sliding piece that covers the outside holes. It would allow one to control the flame if you don't want that much heat, or say you want the fire to last longer.
@Fred Spek glad you like it. You can totally add an air damper on the outside holes. Not sure how it would affect the clean burn but it would definitely slow/control it. Thanks for watching
Just a non pro tip I would have made the top hole smaller and just put more around leave the bottom how it is that looks perfect... I just wonder if it would be more of a controlled flame and would possibly burn everything better. Love the idea tho I want a mini smokeless fire pit for my hammock shelter I feel like something would be perfect for inside my cover
@brick yeah. I know there is a secret formula for the amount of holes and size of holes that make it even more efficient but I just rolled with it. What kind of hammock shelter do you have? This stove works well. I just gave it away in a giveaway recently. Have you seen the new solo stove desktop/table top stoves? Pretty neat and small, maybe perfect for under a shelter setup just for ambiance of fire.thanks for watching
@Coffeeman Insanity and the gasification worked just fine? I know there is like a sweet spot where the second air hole can be making it the most efficient but I’m not that smart lol.
@@AdventureswithSpackmann oh yeah it gasified looked like the back of a rocket engine. I have a video but can’t figure out how to add it to this comment
@Earl Elzy do it! I’ve wanted to make a smaller one as well. I have a 5min Stove video that shows making a wood gasifier really easily and cheap. Thanks for watching
@Justin Hachey above the seal would put the holes above the bottom of the inside layer. For the gasification to work properly(this is only what I think) I believe they need to be below the air intake for the inner layer. Not positive though. It would probably work just fine and still gasify but may not be as efficient.
I am actually making a pot stand right now. I won’t be able to test boil times until tomorrow but I will be uploading the pot stand and testing video once I’m done with it. The 2x4s burned for about 20mins I think in the first video so should be plenty of time to boil some water. Thanks for watching and I’ll try to remember to get back to you here on if it will boil on one load or not.
What are You going to do with it ( besides boil water ) ? It burns so hot it looks like it would burn up anything You try to cook on it ( might melt a cheap pan )
@john howard it’s just like any other wood gasifier stove on the market. You can use it to cook anything. You can put less wood in to have a small flame if you want that. Or just boil water for dehydrated meals. No need to carry fuel just carry the stove. Thanks for watching
was the cost of the drill press added in to the total of the DIY cost? seems like you have a bit more luxury than some of us who have to do everything by hand....
I started the project by hand and it totally could be finished by hand. I got the drill press at a very great price off Craigslist. Thanks for watching!
Hey, the cost of power and the amortization of the house weren't included either! It is very hard to do full, true-cost assessments. I think the method of including only the cost of necessary external inputs is fair unless one has access to something truly extraordinary and absolutely needed.
These bottles aren't available in my area, so I'm left with using cans... You could probably nest some cans with tabs cut at the top that you bend out, and get a double-walled design, but it will leak air a little.
Thanks for watching! Loaded like that with the 2x4s it burned for about 20mins I think. When it was done, just the tinniest amount of ashes. Thanks a lot!
