Topic: Take an old oil drum

[mrf94]

As above,
Cut it and bash it a bit,
Cut hole in shed wall,
Fit drum in said hole,
Find a concrete flag and a few bricks,
Trim the hole edges,
place flag and bricks in place,
Say to h*ll with the credit crunch and buy a baby stove,
and you get this.

[better days]

What a great idea, I must try and locate the parts and do the same in my shed.
I have the stove, just need the other parts and then  nice warm days in the shed.
Cheers mrf94
                     Better Days, :)

[betula]

I like it :)

[terrier]

Similar thread on another forum I use, but instead of buying a pot stove, they used a hacksaw on an old calor gas cylinder. It made a really neat stove for their shed.

[Plot69]

That is the excact same one I have on my narrowboat. Made the mistake when we first got the boat of filling it up with coal and, as a narrowboat is just a long steel tube we had to sleep with all the doors and windows open it was so hot. I just put half a dozen lumps on at a time now.

We toast marshmallows on it and squidge them between digestive biscuits, the kids love them.

[mrf94]

One of my reasons for the stove, is to wrap a coil of copper around the top part, one end hanging down to collect cold air,the other end to go to a small radiator bottom conection ,leave the top one open to get an air flow
through the rad and build a box type thing around it for seed trays

mrf94

[tonybloke]

fill the rad with water, ( leave an open vent for expansion ) you'll get better heat transfer and a more stable heat. (I think your air fed idea will cool down too much) rgds, tony
By the way, bl**dy nice job on the installation, that's definately thinking outside of the box (shed) ;)

[mrf94]

Thanks

I thought about that but didnt want to go down the expansion tank
 route,

Iwas hoping that insulation and a good seal would get me through
a night.

What the heck its all to try for, and i can allways go back to the
drawing board (not that i use one).

One last note my job allows me to go to the allotment in a morning
(every morning) which i do 7 days a week, so i was hoping to be on
 top of the work needed, to keep up to it,  Days will get longer ish after christmas so a teatime visit  should help.

And just to ? get my moneys worth  i had thought of an extension
built over the oildrum outside would give me a warm if not hot house
assuming the skips gave up enough windows.



mrf94
 

[grandadg]

Great  idea. Glad to see you have used a spark guard on the chimney, a few years ago one of our members had a pot belly stove in his greenhouse and the sparks set fire to a neighbour's shed, burning it  to the ground.

[tonybloke]

you don't need an expansion tank just for 1 rad, just a length of open ended pipe (upright), the water can expand and contract as it needs, then. ;)

[mrf94]

Hmm,  now you have me thinking,

Being tucked away in a corner sparks wont be much of a problem unless its summer (cough cough) and the grass gets tinder dry, I fitted the cowl to keep the water out.

MRF94

[Froglegs]

I like it,how much did the stove and chimney cost.

[RobinOfTheHood]

Similar thread on another forum I use, but instead of buying a pot stove, they used a hacksaw on an old calor gas cylinder. It made a really neat stove for their shed.

Link please? 

I have several spare calor gas bottles.

[gardentg44]

a mate of mine as one for sale
frogslegs if your interested
only 30 miles away

[davyw1]

A word of warning.......if you are going to cut into gas bottles you need to take of the the valve at the top then fill it with water to expel any gas that may be left.

[mrf94]

The stove cost 120 pounds the chimney and cowl cost me about
45pounds,

But dont let the gas flue chimney fool you theres a steel 4 inch pipe up the center the flue is there for safety its double walled
The steel pipe came from the same scrapyard the drum came from,

I believe you can get stoves cheaper from ebay or machine mart but mine came from a local suplier(doing my bit for the local economy)



mrf94