Im running the Harbor Frieght Titainium duel voltage with Tig and stick conversion.
I’ve ran it straight off the generators but in the shop the power is supply post battery system so the power is clean from the EG4
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I think most companies have that scenario in mind so they are designed for generator power.
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I’ve been wondering how your truck is coming along. Last time I remember it the cab was done and in primer. 
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Its sitting out back I dont have room in the shop right now. I chopped the frame down to short box spec’s and have to order new leafs for it and dont have the funds for that. So I need to get the chassis built before I can drop the cab back onto it. You need to buy a gasifier so I can order truck parts!! Tom!! 
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Going the Swedish way with alle the stainless? Looking good! Your plasma cutter is doing a great job, no room for mistakes with stainless.
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Yeah its three times more expensive.
A sheet of 60X120 14 ga mild steel P&O is roughly $120 bucks
A sheet of 304 SS same size and ga is $370 bucks.
I only weld the what is now the pump shield and I only have to stitch weld that together and then the Blower adapter and jet.
The rest of trhe parts I just have to clean up after the CNC Plasma and hit with an orbital and call it good. I dont have to paint it so I dont have that cost. But I go thru a LOT flap wheels grinding the edges off.
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Ok. This is what I mean. Didnt see any of that. Double top job
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Any chance you can use a carbide router bit? Carbide should hold up to 304 SS?
DIABLO 1/8 in. Carbide Rounding Over Router Bit DR34104 - The Home Depot
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No I dont think that will work. Just need good quality flap wheels and they tear that stuff off. This is the back side anyways. Then I run it around outer edge perpendicular to the faces sides. It dont take long and Id rather do that then paint.
But yeah that was why I made this change as the paint dont hold up and those parts start to surface rust.
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That would kill my woodgas enthusiasm. I always assumed ss was free of charge for everyone 
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Ok well I do think I am done with the gasifier development with this last build. It works!! So stop fixing it!! lol
The nozzle update combined with the pump and control was the final piece to really make this an honest consumer grade product. Its safe to use, it practically runs as well as on gasoline with the exception of the power loss. Its gas density output is the most stable Ive ever machine accomplish. The gas is very strong and engines are producing a bit more power than other machines Ive built.
I think its time to call it good enough and now anything new in development will be products to support the CFX. Continuouse improvement will always be thing though. So changes to the CFX in the future are still likely just not in a development context. If there are changes it will likely be for simpler reasons; manufacturering, or like say I find a better way to control the water pump that integrate better for instance or the Amtek Blowers get discontinued. Things like that, but as far developing a new machine? Yeah I think Im done and moving on to other endevours.
Im going to start " The 3rd Dimension " this fall. This will be a 3D printing service primarilly, but it will offer engineering services, 3D scanning and CAD design, Custom Metal Fab and CNC plasma services, Aluminum parts cast parts, Custom Carbon Fiber products and then a product line of a combination of all these things to create unique products for an online store and 3D printing file sharing.
So yeah only took 14 years over 500 machines and well over a million dollars spent to arrive here. Its pretty wild looking back. Especially those first 4 years, I had what 6 different gasifier systems on the market that I was doingj design work on all of them, plus manufacturing systems building that CNC machine, then managing employees in the different rolls they had, then paying them. I dont know how I even did. I get winded just walking out to the shop now. LOL The machins ranged from simple to high complexity, I had to learn to write C logic machine code and UI, the machine were pretty high tech and Im proud of that. They evolved to complete turnkey set ups and I was very close to achieving 100% autonomouse opperation where the machine self start, run and shut down on its own. They had premium engines, auger feeds, full enclosures etc etc. Now we have this little tiny CFX and its just a box! lol But its a beautiful box and it works.
Ive learned a great deal this time; I now have some tools and knowledge I didnt have before. So this time around I think Im going to do A OK!!
Cheers
MR
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That is Amazing Matt what you have done these past years. Well done my freind. I sure you hold the personal record on building gasififers wood, and charcoal. And retorts to make charcoal too.
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I just sent US Stove an email to license the CFX to them for manufacturer. I was pretty coarse in the email so we will see. I dont play games with investors. The first thing I want to hear is how I am going to be benifited and precisly. Otherwise no point in talking because that is the point to get them invovled in the first place.
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All right guys so I have been busy!
I sold my 68 Chevy and invested into a new endevour " The 3rd Dimension"
This is a multi service company that will offer engineering services, 3D printing, lazer etching, CNC cut parts, metal fab, 3D printed derived aluminum casting, carbon fiber composits and more. Thrive Off Grid is not going anywhere; however, it will be re organized and hosted by " The 3rd Dimension " next year as a collaborative branding along my other companies. These are sub brands all using technologies from the primary ubrella and then I only need one EIN run them all.
The current CXF dispite all its development is just no longer a viable product with the current market. So a re think is in order and as you all know Ive tried to make DIY units before. I think the most viable way is to use the ammo boxes like I did. That gasifier is the only one I would consider a success as far as DIY goes. So the plan for next year is to phase the current CXF out and re visit this unit. I am going to take everything I can from the CXF and morph it into this. I have had great success teaming multiple units into one. So that will be a key feature. What I plan to do is build a simple bolt in hearth that will share the CXF architecture and wrapped in the ceramic cloth. That will be sufficient to make the thin ammo boxes viable. The lid will also have a bolt in sheild to protect its seal. The nozzle I am going to revert back, to a simpler version. But to add in its place there will be a simpler evap water loop built inside the hearth insert. The part I have not figure out yet is how to cool the gas or a gas cooler. What I would like to accomplish is to some how make the ammo boxes with an interface they can drop into without a bolt flange. The grate and clean out is going away. so I want them to be easiliy removed so they can be simply dumped out. I have a few ideas how to do that with rope seals and pull latches. The Wheeled chassis will get carried over for this and will be expandable from one Ammo box to 4 of them. .Then they all share a cooler they all plug into and then will have the output and blower. So Ill likely have to manufacture this part in multiple versions. The blower and water pump, hose systems I will no longer supply; these parts and components are partially what drives the cost up. I will instead build the addapters needed to make these components work and then the user can source this stuff themselfs.
Ill be working on this over the winter months for spring launch and I think I can produce this for less than a grand easilly. Part of this change is also with my CNC machine. I will be rebuilding it next year into a much more solid machine to be router capable and also run the etching lazer from my other desktop unit. But it will be built into a smaller a 48 x 48 work area or possibly even smaller. This is so it will fit in the RV that will be getting reworked to house " The 3rd Dimension" This way Im not locked into this commercial set up. I latch on to that RV and take it anywhere I want!! lol That RV will be getting gutted and built specicially for the new endevour. The CNC machine will have a water bed and steel floors under it. So no worries about fires There will be things in place for that. It will be much lighter weight too probably build it out of 80/20 with belt drive just like my little one. So this RV will house a work area, all the printers both CNC machines. the kitchen will remain so I have running water but the battroom will get gutted out etc.
So CXF will remain just in a more DIY friendly format that is viable and based on something I know already worked. With the teaming cabability I think four of them can run the 400 and 500 cc gens no problem. I think a twin set up would actually be plenty.
I have a lot of other projects in the works. My 66 Chevy Nova II SS; this car is pretty much beyond restoration. So I think the best use for it is to use to create the plugs for Carbon Fiber Infusion Molds. So that is the plan with that car and I will completely rebuild all of it in Carbon Fiber other than the floor pan and components that need to be made in steel. But basically all the body panels including the roof will be done in CF and Ill offer this all these body parts and possibly a kit car. Then I have a 3D printed guitar Ive been developing for the last 3 or 4 years, Ultimate Scale RC is another sub brand and I have a product that will conclude its development soon and Ill be working on a new product for that company in 1:6th and also that Nova will become an RC product also built in 1:6th scale. I have 3D scanning equipment as well so I can scan that entire car and model it at any scale. lol
You can check out " The 3rd Dimension " here: Just note this website is just getting started and it will evolve here soon. https://www.the3rddimension.net/?origin=wixcode
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