Hi Everyone, My single port air inlet manifold retrofit beat the Titanic to the bottom. Leaked all over, so I scrapped it for a little redesign and a few other improvements.
First I will install a single port air inlet of a different design (and easier to weld). This will involve cutting off the existing air inlet elbows to make room for wrapping the flange with light steel leaving a single large air inlet. This inlet will be fed preheated air in the following way. I will insulate the burner shell. Next I will recapture the cooler and cyclone heat with a finned shroud on cyclone and a 4" stove pipe shroud around my S shape cooler.Therefore the air is pulled in at one end of the S cooler, exits and is fed to the inlet of the finned cyclone shroud, exits and is fed to the single port air inlet at a high temperature. The SPAI can also be insulated. This will all be in line and require some imaginative adapters between components. Can’t wait to get started. Welding on the fins will be good practice for an eventual go at the WK
UPDATE 1/29/13 I did not use this cyclone plan and posted pics later on of new design. I also will build a vertical tube cooler with condensate trap and drain.
Also I noticed the gas outlet port is missing.
