1786 Off The Shelf Inexpensive Heating 

This man and his team should be on the TV , just like the public information shorts that used to be on TV. 👍🐝🌞

"making biodiesel is about as complicated as making a cup of tea" always a treat!

Making tea is easy.. keeping it in my mug after you had me drill holes in it a few weeks ago..is trickier..

I will now be able to eat as well as keep warm because of your teachings. I can not thank you enough.

With this crazy weather we got this year, I appreciate you telling everyone how to keep warm, recharge batteries and just generally be safe. Thank you!

With all these heaters you’ve got kicking around that building, if you lit them all together, you’d be able to grow bananas 😀

This is just great for indoor usage without the smell of hydrocarbons. Great information for us to know Robert. Look forward to try this myself. No smell when is use is just GREAT.

If you're so worried about health and safety that you freeze yourself to death because you're afraid to have a fire, then you have carried things MUCH too far.

Hey Rob that is a great little kit for sure . A good video would be to test a carbon monoxide alarm with one or maybe there is a carbon monoxide meter with a numerical display that can show different fuels you test in the burners . Would be super interesting ! 👍🏻

The only channel i have seen that numbered the videos for easy reference. Great idea.

Great work your doing, brilliant!

One of those thermoelectric stoves fans on top would be perfect, lets you know it still giving off heat too.

Thanks for a great and easy option Robert

That seems like a nice alternative to a patio heater for those of us who don't like lugging big calor gas bottles around, lovely.

I just flicked back to see how you made the biodiesel and it is really tempting to have a go even though I don't need to. Here is a challenge if you haven't already done it. When I was a kid we had gravity fed paraffin pot heaters that vented to the chimney. I wonder if people still have them? Could you build one on the cheap that ran off your biodiesel? My motivation is thinking about condensation. A quick Google and I get 1l water for every 1l of biodiesel = 1l water in the air for 9 kwh. Over the course of several days with a couple of people breathing as well it is going to get damp unless you have some decent ventilation and if you increase the ventilation too much you are going to blow away a lot of the warmth you've built up.

Any yet another winner Thank you Robert.

Thank you!

This is the one I've been waiting for! Question: is it possible that the kerosene is being vaporised and burned and the veg oil is being left behind, this would render it a standard kerosene burner. The reason why I suspect this is because that flame is too clean! Keep up the great work Robert.

Is the stove output adjustable? It would be interesting to see a bean can heater portion with a sand battery built in. The metal part would create quick heat, and the sand battery would release heat overnight when you snuff the stove before bed 😀. This heater running a Stirling, charging a power station would be an awesome diy Combined Heat Power system 👍👍.

great video, just ordered it as a backup, thankyou for sharing your knowledge.

Thanks for your time and knowledge. Enjoy all your videos

My Gran had a parrafin heater in her bathroom back in the 60's and the thing stank to high heaven when it was lit. You also need ventilation with these so it tends to cancel the heat out.

Finally you have bought the Chinese parrafin stoveit has saved my life this winter. I have now escaped to the Philippines. Continue playing witht the parrafin stove they have amillion uses. I want to test heating sand to keep my tent warm overnight.

Thank you Robert! Merry Christmas!

I after watching your video on a sand battery I bought some fire bricks and built a 4 foot (1.2 meters) monstrosity in my offgrid home around a 9000 btu propane Little Buddy heater. It works great.

Would be interesting to see your take on the Kelly Kettle Rob.

That's it, I've only got a desk with a bunch of paper, that's why I try everything in origami

This looks like a wood gasifier stove, inverted and supported, over a cat food can stove, all of which I already have on-hand. I think I'll try that.

You are absolutely awesome! I watch your videos all the time, we are kindred spirits no doubt! Thank you for all the videos, this is definitely my favorite channel🥳❤️

actually have this.... the little stove leaks fuel like a siv if you tip it a little, because the fuel can underneath isn't sealed to the rest of the housing. Just held on by spot welds.

Reviews of the stainless part is the black paint burns off producing a bad smell. Would you recommend removing the paint prior to use?

Do you think that olive oil would work in this style stove 🤔and great videos on your channel 👍

excellent... as always and thank you (p.s. I would have knocked that glass over at least four times in the time it took to assemble those things 😀)

Super fun video! I'm a total gear junky, so this sorta thing is right up my alley! I seen a cool video on how to make a legit mini wood stove out of 4 dog bowls which I thought is very impressive.

Thank you for your informative video.

Just picked up one of these stoves really cheap, just waiting for the shops to open again to pick up some lamp oil just to start with, really looking forward to having a nice warm workshop.

Please put link to both. Description different in USA

Would love to get your take on thermal acoustic heaters.

From a couple videos I've seen (by "tea experts" a cup of tea takes about an hour, several pots, several tea cups, and a trip to a very expensive tea shoppe!

"I can't smell a thing". Right, CO and CO2 are odorless.

I have one of those cozy heaters although I think it has a different name and its a bit shorter.. right now I have 3 single wick alcohol lamps with utensil holders over them, there are several layers of wire mesh inside the utensil holders and I have a couple of sizes of cans with top and bottom removed on top of the perforated holder, the cans are around 140°f ambient is 50° and the room is 73°... not bad for around $8 including fuel! Ive looked at the chinese multi wick burner before but havent gotten one... you can add cans to the top of that or plant pots to help with radiating the heat

for big cans for your can builds ask your restaurant for some they come in an array of useful sizes, merry Christmas.

Your awesome!

Superb Sir!

In a very small space they tend to produce too much heat so my solution is to remove every other wick or more. Regarding fumes you could just add on a DOWNFLOW chimney ie it is cooling the exhaust and exiting it at a low point,

Nice!!!

The first one we made those for camping. Just used an old metal coffee can punched holes in the side, left the top untouched and set it on the propane stove.

Great vis thanks. I have both they work great. Can you make the green one out of stainless household items and the forever wick that will burn used oil/bio diesel . Thanks Robert

So out your tea kettle on top of it!

great ideas

Links to those two items you bought would be helpful.

ha ha, cheers for these - the " "biodiesel" " reference should help those confused folk. These are all marketed as outdoor heaters, not that outdoorsis a great place to heat, but the liability diminishes to zero - re. those who will sadly KZ- ZB themselves - anyone with indoor combustion get a CO monitor..

Is there a know to crank up all the wicks at once, or do you disassemble and pull them by hand? Thank you

I am seriously considering getting one of these setups since out last bout with power outage, the power outage was not so long (plus we had a generator) but the power surge before we lost power killed the igniter on the furnace. This wouldn't have been bad had it not been -10F (-23C) before the windchill, this made the inside temp at its lowest 5F (-15C) due to not having kerosene to use our big kerosene heater halfway through the night. Fortunately we were able to get a heating and cooling company to come out on Christmas Eve and put in a new igniter and test the furnace for any other issues, and yes there is now enough kerosene for a few days if need be on hand now.

I would be interested to know if you can swap the wick for carbon felt

Add $10 for a carbon monoxide detector and you’re golden.

The outdoor BS 150? Well we all know what BS stands for at 12 pounds. But this video is an awesome example of two different things coming together and making something completely usable. Reminds me of what happened when the first comma correcting lens were combined at the lens grinders workshop. The design was sent to completely different vendors for processing, just happened to be they used the same lens maker. So buy both items, repackage them, upcharge and sell as value added. Love it. Cheers.

Great video. Thanks. There here are dozens of types of stoves and "heaters" to go on-top on Amazon but with a bit of effort (still easier than building one myself lol!!) I found both items on Amazon (in the US) for ~ $20 USD/ea

Hi Robert it's so good to see your still doing the videos. I really enjoy your content alot. If there is any tracks on my channel that you may wish to use for intros etc just use them you have my full permission. Happy christmas my friend

I've got an older version of this heater/stove. It's made in Germany by Hasag. Mine was free, as it came with the house I bought😁

Robert yea the health and safty folks would get a self induced full frontal lobotomy if they seen my home made weed wacker/trimmer head made from butter knives LOL

I'm in the U.S. I found what looks to be the same stuff on Amazon. The heater is as low as $17.89. The burner is as low as $14.25. The burner says kerosene fuel.

Is there any way you can give links to the different items purchased in this video

Great for cooking stew! In the same time!😋😋

Very cool, in a hot way.

Would this work with bio ethanol as a fuel instead of bio diesel? :)

Guidelines lol has it really come to this. Great content once again 👏 Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

Can i safely burn denatured alcohol in this heater? With a carbon monoxide detector close by?

One of the best tips I got was that you can use a PV panel as a radiant heater just as well as you can use it for generating power. So one outside the home connected direct with a cable to one inside the home is a complete renewable energy heating solution!

Great little gadgets, all you need do now is pop a metal biscuit tin full of your dry sand on top and you got a storage heater.

Hey M8, it's hot 🔥 downunda during your cold months. 🥶 Wanna do some stuff on how to keep it cool.... . Perhaps when you're cooking during one of those Summer Heatwaves you experience for a day or 3. 😃

seems one could also use a can of chafing dish fuel, perhaps safer indoors!

You might want to make a sterling engine/ heat fan to put on top on this heater to blow the heat around.

Great job. I did this with a plant pot on top of the kerosene stove earlier this year when they £11.. That's 64% inflation btw... But if you remove the outer ring of the stove you get the radiant heat coming from the sides as well and a lovely red glow!! convection and radiation..

are the fumes safe?

Hello i am surging your panabol heating presentation 🙏

Interesting.

I've had a couple of those "cozies" for a few years. I'm by no means a Safety Sally, but from my experience, the black paint on top isn't any good. After dozens and dozens of burns, they still get a sickly sweet smell to them when burned hot. Incidentally, if you have a UCO Candelier three candle lantern, it fits atop those nicely and warms a small area.

To solder some small vape pen batteries terminals in series, do I need to use flux? Is a relatively inexpensive Atten soldering iron okay for this?

Would it be possible for you to give us some company info on the products you purchased? searching Amazon is not giving me matching results by the name of the product though it might have a different name here in the United States or not be available

I have run them stoves on diesel in the past, just keep the wicks clean, very hot. 👍

Somebody should try collecting the used candles from churches. That could be a perpetual source of free paragon.

Just get a carbon monoxide detector, if you don't already have one. If the safety bugs you. Looks like you could easily make a couple of them from tin cans and buy two gallons of paraffin to make 10 gallons of biodiesel which at current prices would mean around £80 of fuel for about £30.

Aladdin lamps have these long glass chimneys and burn very hot, but it's almost impossible to get their mantles anymore. If one fitted a metal chimney instead, I imagine it would make a good heater.

You wouldnt happen have the UPC or EAN code on the Cozy would you? I cant seem find it at Amazon

Have you reviewed the little electric plug in heaters, that are popping up in all our adverts ?

Brilliant only thing is Amazon won't post the heater for the top to northern Ireland.grahhh.

Does anybody have links to both these parts on amazon?

I ordered one of those stoves a few days ago, and now I'm interested in that BS150 too. In the description stood that it would use 150ml kerosene per hour (in most of the times when it comes to stoves it is at a lower setting). And I can do a math :) Kerosene produce 10KwH, so with 150ml it would be 1.5Kwh at a lower setting, ofcourse in theory. Like you said, if you manage to get the fuel cheap enough this might be an inexpensive way to heat some space. In The Netherlands almost everything is cheaper than gas for the central heating (some people are paying 4,5 pound for 10KwH of gas.

Love your videos Robert, tell me can this stove be run on methanol

My cozy had a paint smoke that would never burn off

A few notes on the stove: because they have a cotton wick you can burn ultra low sulfur diesel in them. These will bring a half gallon of water to a boil but not a gallon. The wicks are loaded folded so you get two diameters of wick in each hole. Do not pull the wick down to lower it. You're better off cutting it, for if you pull it down too far it's almost impossible to pull it back up and you've wasted a wick. Most kerosene/paraffin heaters smell mostly on startup and shutdown, but not much while running them. Running the stove without the rings would give you an 8-wick lantern, though you will have shadows from the frame. If you have trouble with your match lighting all 8 wicks at once, it will start if you light every other one.

Would it work using the Carbon felt wickes??

Can you pist a link to both

I got a paraffin heater, cost me about 80. This looks cheaper I hadn't considered buying one of those 8 wick mop stoves and the stovetop IR heaters.

Hi Robert, I was doing some research on plant pot heaters fueled by tea candles. And apparently what makes them dangerous is the paraffin contained in the wax, as paraffinic fumes in high concentration can create an explosion. Vegetable oils like the ones you used also contain paraffinic components. Hence, do you think they pose similar dangers as tea light candles? Thanks.

Great vid, what are the ventilation requirements? Crack a window or are there no concerns at all?

Does this produce as much heat as your 1702 diy heater video? Id be interested just since kerosene os cheaper than methanol and i wouldn't mind having both heaters

Thanks again, Robert. Can we burn ethanol in that stove?

Condensation is my enemy. Brick built draughty garage with lots of cold iron and steel inside. Machine tools and motorcycles are great for catching all that moisture and turning everything brown. I daren't put any heat source in there unless it's running 24/7