First Down Draft Charcoal Gasifier

[r_wesseling (Rindert Wesseling (Louisville,CO))]

Hi Brian,
I have this big roll of paper someone said I could have when we were cleaning out the basement of my church. Experience tells me that time spent making revision after revision on paper and cardboard saves time and grief when I’m cutting and welding.
Rindert

Tools, Tips and Tricks

Hi All, This is what I have learned. Make full sized drawings of what you want to make first. It’s much easier to erase and redraw something on paper than it is to cut and reweld so many times. Rindert [DSCN3430]

Tools, Tips and Tricks

Hi Folks, I like to make cardboard models before I cut and weld. I just think it makes everything easier. The little triangular piece of wood in the picture has a hole drilled through it and a pencil in the hole. It allows me to make a projected line on the cardboard. When i made the curved hopper tube I projected the curvature of the bent pipe I scrapped from something else. Then I wanted to make two 45° turns in the pipe instead of one 90°. When you make a 90° turn you cut the pipe at 45°, an…