Mr Wayne: i feel honored. 
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Thank you Kristijan, yeah i was trying to find the word digestion, i give some to the chickens, they eat some when they feel they need a “intestine de-tox” this is very good to “serve” them, with some gravel/grit, especially when raising small chickens.
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The “camerawoman” says thanks 
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Thanks Marcus, yes it can be really hard to explain a picture, a live video is another thing
Very interesting you mention a “sifter” for casings, something a friend and i talked about a lot, we used to joke about a “magnet” that only attract’s brass 
This was because we both was “caretaker’s” in our local pistol-shooting club, and he is really into reloading, (a 9mm casing is really expensive here in Sweden, where gun’s is something you should be ashamed of 
)
It was like finding a “gold-nugget” when finding a 9mm, 44, 45, or something in the “snow-drifts” of "22:s.
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Here in the land of the second amendment I can walk through the woods along my trapline to 3 different shooting pits and on most days pick a five gallon bucket of brass. When the kids are with me we call it hunting for gold! Not quite the same as @Bobmac unfortunately but still highly valuable, I have buckets of the stuff put away for future reloading. Few hundred pounds of scrap lead battery terminals from a friend that works on electric forklifts, along with lead roof scuppers from the roofers at work that save them for me. Primers are the expensive components here they have been in high demand going on 3 years now. Once target shooting on a Saturday would cost me 50-75$ with 4 shooters now it’s upwards of 300$ for a short day. No brass is wasted, try to recovered lead from dirt berms as well. Any caliber I don’t reload gets distributed to friends, crushed brass is recycled for back into the shooting funds. Unfortunately my children cannot yet tell the difference between 308, 6.5 creedmoor and 223/556. Nor 40, 9mm, 380. So the sorting comes down to many hours of my eyes getting blurry staring at brass picking and sorting. Still enjoy it though, but a machine like yours would do wonders for time savings!
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Some progress, cutting of the stud’s, and the flange.
I cut away the mounting flange (a piece of rolled angle iron) and found this rusted through, who know’s how long it has been there?
The angle iron only welded on top, and each end, free for air to pass beneath it.
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Sorry Joep, but I don’t follow.
Göran, since there was no moped video today I watched your crusher/sifter once more 
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To much typing. Make it shorter like PB then the magic is lost
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So, prof, Balthazar making some progress, i’ve “wrapped” the old gasifier housing in ss sheet, very stiff, good thing i had to locate all my ratchet straps, now trying to keep them in one place.
Im shocked i’ve managed to measure and calculate the circumference this good
, always seem’s to be some inches missing.
Annoying thing with stainless is, easiest way to not get it “distorted” is welding some 3inches, then let it cool, then weld again, gives lot’s of coffee breaks though.
If i grab the wrong torch, bad things can happen
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It goes forward, soon it’s only the flange left to weld.
Both inspection lid’s broke when i took them of, (threaded cast iron, i never loosened them before) my idea was to omit them, but then i thought it would be nice with one, to be able to see above the grate.
I welded this with very soft rod, without heat it, welding 1/4" , peen the weld, let it naturally cool of, then weld again.
It hold up without cracking, i even accidentally dropped it in the concrete floor.
But for extra safety i decided to put a “ring” or a piece of pipe around it’s circumference.
Then i totally “lost it” and “dressed” the whole lid in stainless.
The stud’s for the lid’s are black iron, so i just Mig weld it to the stainless, this is going to become a “rust zone” but im no purist, and with some paint it should look nice.
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A little update, mostly pic’s, im doing a inspection of the hearth, nozzles, air mantle.
Oxidation zone.
I put a folding rule in the pic’s to give a idea about the dimensions(if someone is interested
)Please note: i used a “international” folding rule, with both inches and centimetres
I prefer them myself.
Putting the hearth into the outer housing, to “match up” the air-box.
Nozzles is made from stainless fully threaded rod, drilled 11mm if i remember correctly.
The nuts that locks the nozzle-pieces in place i bought cheap stainless, interesting to see how heat, carbon and oxygen “transform” them into a “rusting material”.
Upside-down, i built this hearth, using SMP dimensioning tables and drawings, they came up with this “cylindrical-imbert” around the 70-80:s, i believe, it’s also very similar to the type the Finn’s use, only theirs somewhat shallower.
So, i don’t take any cred for this, i used a proven design, and only used some minor modifications, after my own “believes”, and here is one: the lining inside the reduction zone, with a small air-gap, i believe this should “reflect back” some of the heat, back to reduction zone, instead of radiate into the air mantle, if this gives some benefits i dont know, it just felt rigth.
Upside-down, note: It’s not the restriction that can be seen here, it’s just a “floor” for the sacrificial restriction plate to sit on.
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Here’s some videos, one video became two, because of a curious neighbor showing up with questions during filming
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Thank you Goran . As Tone would say,
You have golden hands
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I swear that is the living embodiment of rat rod culture in a picture I love every last thing about it! I would ride that to work in a heart beat just to see the looks on peoples faces!
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I’m excited to see what the fuel economy could be with that little reactor.
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Goran,
Thanks for sharing. That is a nice build. Is the tube going to the gasifier air inlet for a water drip?
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Thanks for the film Göran.
It was fun to see that you could make it work so well on a moped.
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Thank you, Göran! I love it when odd bits and pieces come together to something useful. Very inspiring. What distance would you guesstimate a small hopper like that would take you?
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You are having too much fun Goran 
Im not sure what you were saying when the moped ran but if it has something to do with the fact that you later opened the lid and showed the rpm increase, thats perfectly normal. Steam from the hopper gets drawn trugh the hearth, making loads of hydrogen but cooling the charbed in the meantime so when the lid is put back on, it produces weak gas untill the hot zone warms up again. I try to refuel fast with the engine runing, to minimise this effect. Open, dump, close.
Excelent, again
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fine art göran !!! you are a artist !!!
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