Do you mean his cooling tubes? I don’t think it’s a big secret. It helps to circulate the condensate out and save hopper space.
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No, i mean the hopper juice collector, i believe he let the tar sink, and just drain the water, no risk of clogging the drain valve.
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Oh right, that one.
I’m thinking with my milk can condensate collector I’m just going to leave the can as is and just dump it out wholesale instead of depending on a drain.
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It’s the way im going now, cheap plastic container, 20 liters, when it’s loaded with stiff tar i just cut it open to save the tar, and replace it.
It’s just that i want a container i can drain “on the fly” this one i have to carry away and empty, and if i forgot it, water stands up the hose, making a mess on the bed (and me) when i disconnect it from the hopper.
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Göran, I just wanted to mention what I did on the Volvo. I connected a second 5 liter plastic can below the juice can. In a couple months it’s full of tar and I replace it with a new one. No messing around to fill a container of tar. No waiting another year for warmer weather to drain. Clean fingers 
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Goren I believe he uses a single container with dual level drains. One a standpipe. The other a bottom drain.
Drained re-warm after overnight time separation?
And he is never artic.
S.U.
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Thank you JO and SteveU, it’s exactly how i thought.
This is a quick drawing of how i thought im going to build, just to “refine” this into something simpler.
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The WK gasifier secret is the main fire tube in side workings that you can not see after it is built. So the building of that part we keep on the premuim side of the site. But yes Wayne has taken and has come up with some of the best and simple ways to do things in his WK gasifier design.
Bob
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Bob I think one good benchmark to see what’s safe for public eyes is all the videos Marcus uploaded. If you go from YouTube side to his channel you’ll only see his public WK videos, Wayne gave him to Go Ahead for all that.
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I decided to start making a new lid for the hopper today, did some experimenting to try give the stainless sheet a slightly convex shape, like the old lid.
I cut out a round disc, slightly bigger in diameter. This stainless sheet has been used as a damage/vandal proof mirror, as used in public restrooms, therefore it’s very shiny, got it for free from a builder.
I used a rim underneath as a “anvil”
A piece of wood, then trying pressing with my crane, and some hammering.
Did NOT end up as i imagined, so i decided to go with a flat lid instead, just to start over, cutting a new disc.
Here’s the rim for the seal welded in place.
Now to weld a inner rim, 1/2inch from the outer, without this warping…
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Did some more welding,
I used a piece of garden hose as a temporarily “spacer” for the inner rim, i understood that the hose would burn some when welding, but i wasn’t prepared of that terrible smell, my tongue started to feel numb so i decided to throw the hose, good thing i had tack-welded the rim enough to stay in place.
Then i welded a “classical” dripping protection, almost finished, and i ran out of shielding gas… why does that always happen on weekends?
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Hello kristijan, how thick of a felt cloth works out good on your gasifier, and how would you construct the felt cloth housing for a v8, so it breaths well, Any design ideas, or just sucure felt on top of hay filter media,?THANKS
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Goran, l feel your pain. I have been so frustrated before over using all my gas that l once threw together a reacting vessel with hidrocloric acid and limestone gravel to produce me some CO2 to finish the project, but then I remembered HCl vapours might not be good for the welders guts
Now, homebrew CO2 is a nother thing… might utilise it some day. As of now, l got about half a tone of apples fermenting for schnaps. Thats roughly 25kg of CO2…
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Ha ha, yes, i havent tried anything that complicated, but i’ve used co2 fire extinguishers with a homemade adaptor for the welder, some years ago one could refill them very cheap at the local firefighters station, now they have to send them away and inspect them, almost as expensive as welding gas. Sometimes i’ve had the luck to sneak out a full co2 extinguisher from the recycling plant (dumped/recycled stuff cant be taken home)
In this case though it was the pure argon for the tig welder, harder to replace…
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Its what l do. A 5 kg refill costs about 8€.
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Used to be 15€ around here, now it’s 65€…
Hmm, if we have coal and a compressor that reaches 40 bar (from the r410a cooling system), we could liquefy CO2 at less than 40 bar, burn coal in a container, cool the gases and compress them to 40 bar, fill the liquid into a cylinder. …
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I Googled that Tone. 40 bar equals 580 PSI. My son has a compressor that the fire departments use to fill air tanks. Not sure how much pressure but way beyond that. Are you guys getting good welds with no added Argon?
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Sure. Never even saw Argon in my life, and l welded everything from paper thin to filling in an anvil that was missing a chunk. Never had a problem.
CO2 is a big molecule and it shuld store real well in plastic bags, inflatable matrasess… if someone does homebrew or something like that. Then just compress it once its acumulated.
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Dad was using a c25 mix (was commenting on how expencive it has gotten) untill i suggested a strait co2. The argon mix does weld better in some aplications or on specific metals. But for what we are doing i cant tell a differance. And it was costing him over $100/tank of c25 mix. Just the other day he said he exchanged his c25 tank for a c02 and it was under $40.
My cousins are both professional welders and they have always used co2 at home and when working on the farm.
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