Boys and fires right ?figure out a way to put a flashlight in the thing and a pocket knife and it’ll be my new best friend
External Tank temp is 500°
Stack at end 650°
This is super s cool to me!! back yard bbq’s talking piece
Works better without a taller stack.
I got black smoke when I put a stack on it.
I undersized the discharge tube to fit inside of the stack that I had so that I could play with the length, which I did.
Drew it up and burned rolled and spot welded a 12" long undersized section and added a stop ring for a potential stack,
which was a fail for this thing.
Shuts off when fill cap/aka swing damper is closed.
Zero black smoke, which was a pleasant surprise
The green Freon bottles are the same as this bottle which may be more common now, especially since helium prices have gone through the roof
the bottles also make great quench cans for cooling parts after the tops are cut off and leg stabilizers are added, which is why i scrounged this thing from the street initially for a welding class that I teach.
Edit: I fired it up this evening watching tv out back, with about a quart of diesel in the tank and its been running for a little over an hour. Swing damper at about 50%. I think itll hold over 1/2 gallon up to the fill cap. Still testing fuel consumption .
