An acorn nut will protect the threads for removal later.
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Hi Kristijan, my mild steel plates warped down by the reduction zone. Is there any way you could weld stainless steel pipe in between the pieces at the bottom, and have the pipe go to the out side of the reduction pipe? It wouldn’t even have to be stainless steel pipe.That would keep them in place. With the ash packed in behind the plates that should work.
Bob
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Acorn nut and anti-seize on the threads. For good measure.
Bob
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Well Carl, thats gonna be a hard one since the bolts are actualy air nozzles 
Bob, l think l see what you mean! Makes sence. Yes l think l culd do that.
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My bad, not paying attention. Perhaps half a coupling nut??
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Kristijan,
A couple more suggestions 
I would screw in or cut off the bolts/nozzles flush with the nuts + copper paste on the threads.
The sacrificial plates I would leave the way they are. If any warping occurs in the lower region just bend them in to hide in the ash cone or cut the lower halves off. The ash cone will protect the lower half of the firetube anyway.
Or… similar to Bob’s suggestion: A larger diameter pipe around the restriction could be a lose fit. Only high enough to keep those fingers from warping into the flow path.
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Hi guys, hard to see but only but in the top pic you can see all nozzles exept this one are flush with nuts.
Yes the bending inward is the only thing that concerns me.
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Hi guys,
Been buissy last few days, pig slaughter day and anual technical inspection on the Mercedes, meaning l had do dissademble and reasemble everything wg related. Glad thats past.
Here are some pics of the sistem
@TomC, since l hadthe scale out from slaughter day, l weighted the gasifier&hopper. Thats 60 pounds so l think JO and l culd smugle it trugh airport inspection
Here is a pic of my sooty hand next to the hearth.
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Inspection OK? No questions asked about why the trunk floor was missing?
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That is a very impressive build
Hard to believe it can be so miniaturized
You have a system to be proud of
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Kristijan, and JO; Let me know when and I will meet you in Chi town with wood or charcoal, thinking charcoal gasifier could be even smaller yet.
Kristijan, is that your thein baffle filter in the right side of the picture of the gasifier? TomC
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Where is the hundred like buttom, I like the Ben Peterson under the car cooling rail design, he hss done it on a Ford Mustang car. You have thought this out real good I can see.
Bob
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JO, yes, it passed, a slight problem with the "hand"brake but the kind inspector helped a bit with the foot brake to pass.
Ha, l camuflaged it all wery well
Thanks Michael, but first, it has to work too! It amazes me too how is it possible that this 12x14" cilinder container is gonna power a 135hp engine. woodgas is amazeing.
But l steped to a boundry here. While l culd make it about half lighter useing thin ss, smaller isnt possible anymore.
Tom, no, thats just background the 12" baffle neaded to go becouse it was to wide and allmost touched the trunk wall, wich started to burn the paint. I am building a new 9" baffle.
Bob, ha, Ben has a much more profesional build
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I know that none of the information on this Thein filter included dimensions. But from looking at what everyone has built, I was thinking the diameter of the baffle should be three times the diameter of the pipe connecting the baffle to the system. One pipe diameter for the incoming pipe and one diameter for the out going pipe, and one diameter to match the space of the incoming pipe. TomC
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Afternoon shift caught me about 2 hours early to finish installing the crude system, but here are some pics of todays instalment
The gasifier suporting plate
Aluminium box lined up with it, 90° rotated
Gasifier installed
Rockwool plates installed. You can see the lighting port on top, ant it might aswell be the air intake. Some air circulation in the insulated alubox shuld aid the cooling some
Rotated 90° in the right position
Voila! Top lid on, trunk compartment finished. Now its just a matter or crawling under the car and connecting the gasifier-baffle-cooler.
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Pretty box! If I didn´t know I would never had guessed it´s a gasifier in that last pic.
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Hey JO, when Kristijan get it all put together, and running. I’m giving him my vote for this years Stealth Wood Gasifier Build Award.
The SWGBA 2017
I wonder who will get the SCGBA this year? I know it’s not my charcoal gasifier. Lol
Bob
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Remember his Seat SCGB? Kristijan is very good at stealth builds.
With this one he will be hidden by a smokescreen even when refueling
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Haha, thanks for the vote Bob btw, we wait patiently for your chargasifiers testdrive! You must be preety near right?
JO,
Ha, l think about my litle Seat often nowdays. I loved how it purred on on chargas. Might just convert it back someday. So many ideas and so litle time/resources…
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Hi guys!
Breif update. I have been strugleing with this project a lot. Problems upon problems.
The new insulated hopper works great at not emiting any heat in the trunk. This means all the heat is trapped in the hopper and with that small (10gal) hopper the hopper center temp reaches wood pirolisis temps in just 15miles of driveing on medium load. Althugh preheated wood is good for gas productiun under load, idle is impossible. The rich pirolisis gas first suffocates the engine, and displaces intake air thus cooling the charbed. Cool charbed is firstly unable to crack tars produced above, and secondly, unables quick driveoff. I had s similar problem on my Alubox gasifier on the chevy, but l thod since the MB has a bigger engine, it shuld defeat the offgasing. But no.
A nother problem was refueling. So much smoke emited from the trunk is hard to hide. You cant always find a peacefull place to refuel, or shuld l say, allmost never.
I tryed pure engine grade charcoal in it. Power was low (expected-restriction in the lmbert gasifier is not designed for such small fuel) but man it drove well! Idle, ecceleration… wery nice. And cool! Baffle touchable hot.
Ok. Tryed further. I mixed just enough engine grade char with egg size chunks to clear the voids between the wood.
Power was better, idle too, but after a while it all constipated again.
This sayd, its time for plan B.
I will pull out the gasifier and mount it on a small trailer. There will be a conciderably bigger condensing hopper on it, big cooling and filtration sistem. And room for wood ofcorse. this will be a long trip asembly.
Now, for the every day 20km to work and back drives, l will revisit the dark side. I sure missed it 
Anyway, l am still not sure on the design l will use, but l am looking at Kalle gasifiers, main reason being heat and neaded insulation. More of it when l do some more investigation before l make any moves.
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