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Cublover · 01-02-2012, 07:55 PM

I gotta finish some of the cosmetics before I show the world my ugly welds!

I've been cutting and changing things, tacking it together, etc.
I may have to bring the plaz home for a weekend to 'clean things up'.
I've been cutting with a DeWalt grinder and a sawzall. The plaz and torches are 15 miles away at the farm. (this is my 'man cave' heater)

hanger · 01-05-2012, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Cublover

Now that it's cold out, are you using it yet?

I've already burned over a cord.
I discovered a small problem with my 1869 design 'Caboose' stove tonite.
The seal between the top and the bottom is leaking! It's not letting sparks out, it is letting too much air in, causing me to think that my flue was clogged.

I will be taking the bolts out and using boiler sealer to repair the air leaks.
I could use muffler sealer to 'patch' it up, but think a more permanant repair is in order.

(I drank two pots of coffee to get through the 'shift change' this week and everyone on my rolidex is sleeping! I'm still bouncing off the walls and looking for 'quiet' things to do)

Where do you get boiler sealer? I've got an antique top loader stove that leaks around the bottom. I tried sealing it with some grey gasket sealer used for door gaskets but it didn't last...........the stuff gets really hard and becomes brittle. Thanks.

Cublover · 01-05-2012, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by hanger

Where do you get boiler sealer? I've got an antique top loader stove that leaks around the bottom. I tried sealing it with some grey gasket sealer used for door gaskets but it didn't last...........the stuff gets really hard and becomes brittle. Thanks.

Sorry, I yanked it out of the dumpster at the County complex!

Diving!
That was the ONLY time a dispatcher had to drive the truck to the dumpster in several years!
THAT day, someone had thrown away 3 quarts of boiler sealer! It just happened that I was driving the truck!

I may be able to spare a quart.

Cublover · 01-10-2012, 04:59 PM

I hauled the big compressor and Plazma cutter home sat night. My soon to be 'son-in-law just left with the GMC. He got a 'salvage slip' for all the barrells that are in the trailer.
The place he works make a lot of 'cool' stuff, Remington and Federal ammunition, etc. They also make the motors for 'Tomahawk' and Patriot missels!
He said the barrells that gunpowder come in are a good bit heavier than the others.

Watch this space! Barrell stoves 'R' us! I need 4 right away! No, I am not going to paint them pretty! I'm gonna burn all the paint off and give the owner a bottle of stove black. (if they want it)

Cublover · 01-12-2012, 06:25 PM

10 nice clean barrells showed up last night! I've been looking them over and coming up with a 'master plan'.
I kicked a few ideas around with the 'Magic Man'. He liked my ideas. Cleaning them out tonight. Explosives placards tell me that I should.
Pics soon..

Cublover · 01-12-2012, 11:45 PM

OK, It's after midnight and I just came in from the shop.
I dumped the left overs out of 5 barrells and caught it in a big pan. I was wondering what would happen if I started cutting on these barrells without cleaning them. I took a pile of the residue, 1/2 inch high, 3 inches wide and put it in a coffee can. Then I threw a match in!! There was really intense white fire, then it burned for 15 minutes as a small 'glow' that almost melted the tin!
Sure am glad that I didn't take the Plaz to them tonite!! They might have found my body north of the Manson-Nixon line! OHH!! Mason-Dixon....
Needless to say, I cleaned the HELL out of them!!
Did a little 'research'. This stuff is the 'solid' part of 'solid ROCKET fuel!
We are talking 2 oz out of a container that weighed 600 POUNDS when full!!

mbotticelli · 01-19-2012, 02:33 PM

Dude, there's no better heat than that which comes from a wood stove! I keep my pad around 76 allll winter, especially my shop! The trick is to give the wood time to season, maybe a year or two depending on the type of wood. One of my favorite wood for burning as well as splitting is maple... i love it and it's easy to split and seasons nicely in one year. Chimney is the most expensive part of the project for you... too bad you can't score some of that for free too ha ha. Enjoy and keep warm!

Gotta Boogie

Cublover · 01-19-2012, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mbotticelli

Dude, there's no better heat than that which comes from a wood stove! I keep my pad around 76 allll winter, especially my shop! The trick is to give the wood time to season, maybe a year or two depending on the type of wood. One of my favorite wood for burning as well as splitting is maple... i love it and it's easy to split and seasons nicely in one year. Chimney is the most expensive part of the project for you... too bad you can't score some of that for free too ha ha. Enjoy and keep warm!

Gotta Boogie

I have different places to put wood. If it's dry, it goes in the first section of the wood 'rick', almost dry goes into the second section, third is for the wood that will be ready in a month or 2. Green wood is cut, split and stacked where the rain and snow can push the sap out.
I've been using wood here for 25 years now. No prob!!
I have some seasoned maple that I use to start, then throw on some locust and oak.

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