I don’t know if anyone is interested but Sovol is running a sale on their printers, and the SV06 is 220 dollars again which I think is what Matt has… but the other ones are on sale for the next 3 days as well.
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Going to have to have an ebony fret board and an orange body or else it won’t be a Matt Ryan 
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Ok made one last update to the DXF-10. I added a gas cooler that should help make the drum filters more effective.
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I agree with all the other compliments-this is truely looking excellent design features. if there is any chance of gas leak around the barrel that holds the acumulator- might be better off mounted out doors in cool location for summer times. I am surprized what you are getting done tar free with such smaller wood chips than most only working with larger chunks in order too make tar free gas.
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Ok updating the website over the weekend. This is the direction we are going now. The DXF is going to be a series machine offered in three sizes with multiple size hearth core inserts. The DXF0-10 will more than like just have one size hearth. However there will be a 14 inch and an 18 inch diamter version. We can then build different size hearth liners. Larger liners will support larger application but will have less insulation while the smaller hearth cores will have more. The VersiFire is going to be a optional add on package for the DXF-Series and the charcoal catch bin will be another option to support the CFX charcoal gasifier. This is basically a revamped version of this years DFX-S3 charcaol unit.
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Well it might not be a gasifier but at least it has flames on it!!
lol So there you have it a 3D printed guitar!! So far its holding tune. Going to be making some revisions and will be printing another one. This one is just a proto and there are some things I want to change and a few things that need some fine tuning. But for a first time print it came out very well.
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That looks great Matt. Where did you get the neck and bridge?
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Neck is a 25.5 inch scale length strat replacment neck. Bridge is a Floyd Rose original.
Neck came from Amazon and the FR came form FR
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Is the gas forced to bubble up through the water when the accumulator fills?
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No the water just seals the top accumulator drum. There is telescoping tube inside. No need to water buble and that dont work any ways. Been there and done that waste of time and it just makes a mess.
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Ok first production DXF-10 Standard ready for delivery. We did a test run tonight on charcoal so that we are ready to demo for our cleint on Saturday when he comes to pick it up.
This thing ran without skipping a beat, first run, first time its ever had fuel in it.
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Great video!
I thought you once mentioned a certification or some such related to biochar production, what’s that about?
Will additional accumulator kits continue cycling individual barrels, cycle in banks or possibly an array of both?
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I have no idea about the cert question. Only certs Ive ever talked about is the EPA. You can not bring a stove technology to market without UL and EPA certification. These systems not stoves they only produce the gas they dont consume it, Therefore is the loop hole the EPA can not touch this technology as long as its not produceing the emisions.
You would add them in parrallel that is simpler. Otherwise each barrel has to have a hight sensor and thats gets complicated to code. Just one sensor on one barrel is all that is needed and you would need to add some sort of brace that links all the accumulators together so they fill equally.
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Rebuilding the VersiFire this week and converting to a stand alone machine. So this will now except any of our DXF-Series gasifier or an existing gasifier can also be used. You dont need our gasifier to work with the VersiFire. However you will need to add our automation to an existing gasifier but that will be easy enough especially for those that built their system. If you can build the gasifeir to begin with you can these systems. So your WK units, Ben Peterson units etc can all be made to work with this system.
So a few observations when we tore down the prototype. When we dumped the hopper it was all converted to charcoal above the hearth. There was at least a 1/3 hopper left in this 55 gallon drum! When we drained the accumulators I was expecting to see a ton of tar dropped in the bottom of the water barrels and a nice coat of that stuff inside the accumulators. Nope nothing! Just some surface rust and I think that came after it sat for a while with no water in the drums.
So this is only the beginning here! I think as things evolve we will be able to highly tune the blower flow to match the optimum flow of the gasifier. So it will always drive the unit at any gasifiers specific opperating flow paremeters. The orginal gasifier was stupid simple, it just had a single jet and open hearth with out a restriction plate and it made all that gas without making a ton of tar!!. Something this will do that an engine cant; is when things go south inside the gasifier the blower dont care and will keep driving the unit. With an engine it will die out and create a viciouse cycle. So this thing is working as I suspect but we are also learning new things about it.
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Hi Matt , i have shown your video’s of your amazing Versifire to a few people that have been round to the yard to look at the gasifiers i have here and all are very impressed of course being on this side of the pond does make it a no go to buy as a complete system , but what about the parts you your self make as a parts build and they supply there skills to put together and getting the containers to suit , it might be worth looking at ?
Pretty sure most parts should be available here be it a hell of a lot more to buy , but might be a great way of making gas .
Dave
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Yeah thats how its sold (it is a kit). I dont supply the drums. Just the controller / mount panel, the leg stands, valve assembly, wire harness, the telescoping gas transfer tubes and the systems to go on the gasifeir. The VersiFire has never been a concept where we were going to build it as a turnkey system. The concept has been it would come in kit form from the begining as the regulation could be an issue.
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Here is our first 3D printed controller. This is the gasifier manager controller that controls the grate and hopper agitators. There is a push button for manual grate activation and the knob controls the hopper vibrator power level. Ive designed a new purpose built box for the VersiFire and will be working on a new AFR controller soon.
Yeah 3D printing is really changing the game. Now we can build these boxes in less than hour verses 8 hours, they are refined and purpose built. Now instead of make to work components we now have manufactured to work components. The engine adatper was alos a huge improvement along with the printed AFR electronic valve. 
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Wow, looking good Matt. Petg or ABS?
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