Ok new plan!! lol
After a lot of thought and then this new product I just developped I decided to change direction.
I dont see a kit as viable. Yes I can bring it to market fairly cheap. However its simply not going to perform on par with the CFX, its crude and ugly, its inferore, and because its a kit it will require support. I’m just not sure its worth it. The way I see it, if you are truly looking to DIY a gasifier you dont need a kit! You actually shouldnt anyways. Get plans just like everyone here and build it out of scrap, tanks and obtainium. Reguardless if you design it or build a kit, that kit does not have one single advantage over you gettiung your own and plans and building it yourself. I think kits are a waste of peoples money and Im not going to be a part of that. If i do anything Ill come up with a free set of simple plans.
Ok so now thats out of the way.
So now part of this change is also due to new product development. What I need to do here is offer some sort of Retort / Kiln kit to go with the CFX RTR. I was planning on just offering parts to contruct a smaller version of the 55 Gal Prototype but using the 30 gallon drums as that big one was too much for one person to handle. The problem was when I was trying to pass this idea off to customers they want me to build it for them. The issue I have to buy everything brand new because I need reliable sources and I just dont sell used junk that can be problematic. So the final cost is just not worth what I would have to charge to make it worth my while. Im not doing this for free.
I think the clients see it and think its over thier head and beyond thier ability to DIY.
So I went back and re thunk this again. 
Ok so what I came up with; is a burnner base that we will manufacture and this will become its own product as this thing can be switched up to work as multiple devices. It works excellent as a smokeless portable fire pit. Ok now because its designed to work with the drums. You can get different sizes of the 14 and 19 inch diameter drums for it. You can use the short drums and make BBQ with it. Or a self feed hopper in fire pit mode. It can be ran as a single stage retort or add the both stages and then you have pre drying stage. Wrap a water coil and you got a water heater. Then it can be used for a shop heater as well as I do plan toi use this one this year.
The first proto was this size and that thing alone could nearly heat the entire shop. I used a torpedo heater to suppliment it. But you only need to run it for short times to maintain a comfortable level even on the coldest days here in Mich.
So this I think is much more viable and also marketable as a product. With its versitility I think it deserves the VersiFire branding. VersiFire I own this brand already so its not just name I came up with I own the domains for it. So Im going to use it I just needed a product to fit it. This I believe is that product.
So from now on all CFX RTR with the new price point with get a VersiFire burner / retort kit. But this will also be sold stand alone and its own product. Base will be just a fire pit. Then Ill offer the retort kit parts and drop ship the drums with the full kit.
So now all the user has to do to DIY this is cut the bottom out of the 30 gallon drums and simply drill the holes in the retort bottoms to addapt the center vent pipes and I even provide a steel template to locate the holes center on drum. So if a user cant build this, they probably shouldnt be messing with a gasifiere in the first place and thats a red flag they are not educated on the tech and may have expectations what the technology can deliver.
Ok so how this evolved: So I came up with the burner idea and its based on the concept of the two stage retort Ive been developing over the last few years now. Seems like its been a short time but I did build the first proto two years ago already. Anyways. after I built it. Im thinking man that might make a great portable fire fit. So I tried it, then more ideas came. I can put the lid directly on the burner and forces the gas out the vents and make it smokeless? Yup sure can it works. Then Im think well what if I put the shorter drums on it I could put a 18 inch grill on the inner drum and outer will hold it place. Yup it worked!. Oh yeah put in smokeless and let it burn it makes charcoal on the spot for grilling. Remove the grill now the inner drum is a hopper and you can fill that with fire wood and put the lid on and it will self feed for the entire night. Oh need it to produce more heat? Yeah just place one of the outer shrouds on and that will draft it much harder and stoke it up. You could set up the retort shround with a water coil to produce hot water daily and that would be a great incentive to use it to make charcoal plus a cool burner for the warmer months this is your fire pit and then its a shop heater in the colder months.
So if it can be used on daily basis in a practical way, You can amass a lot of charcoal over time and will have plenty of fuel for suplimental power and back up and this is then just not limited as a charcoal producer. It has many other practical uses and its actually fun to use. This will be a much more viable product worth of the VersiFire branding that will appeal to a much larger market than just a small select DIY gasifeir market that I dont see being very successful.
So would you like me to take your money now?
