I’ll admit, the last couple days I’ve been running the generator on GASOLINE. Partially because I took the filter apart on the simple fire and partially because I was welding and wanted to make sure I got good penetration welding the tank back together.
Took about a gallon of gasoline to do a few welds and some grinding. Makes me realize how much I was using that gasifier. A half hour here, an hour there adds up. The generator manual said 10 hours per 4 gallon tank at 50% load if I remember right. At full load it obviously uses considerably more.
Welded in a fitting for the nozzle and a ring of sheet metal around the lid.
Now, I need to refill my filter so I can stop wasting gasoline and get back to charcoal.
One more run on gasoline to make some planer shavings. These are two of the birch boards I made on the sawmill thread.
These were sawed at 1 inch minus the blade thickness and they finished at 3/4 inch.
My filter now has a layer of gravel on the bottom, and a couple pieces of felt over that.
Then a layer of the planer shavings. This was fresh cut boards but the log had been laying around for a long time so mostly dry.
Another layer of felt on top to keep from sucking up planer shavings.
Should be ready to run again as soon as I fill it back up with charcoal. I’m going to get my tools set up ready to use before starting it but I expect it to work. This is the first time running with the rocks and new gasket on that filter.
This is the ash clean out port for the new gasifier. The old simple fire powered the grinder to cut off this big piece of pipe and did most of the welding although it complained about that. This is way thicker than the welder was made to do and the generator running on charcoal was giving it everything it could. I’d be really surprised if I don’t find some leaks here but that’s one more step closer. The inside diameter is around 4 inches and the outside lip is around 6 inches with a groove to put a gasket.
The simple fire got really hot and ate a lot of charcoal. I didn’t time the run but it was working pretty hard most of the time it was running.
I refilled it and I’d guess it took about 3 gallons of charcoal.
