Gas bottle stove

Ihatehalloween

Hi
I am looking for someone to make me a stove out of a gas bottle. If you know of anyone I would appreciate it if you could pm me their details, Thanks.

http://www.stonecarve.com/woodburners.html

ponddigger

hi I am making a gas bottle stove at the moment. jack

ponddigger

hi ready for welder

ponddigger

hi all welded and painted. jack

ponddigger

hi fire lighting in stove ,some heat from stove,jack

gctest50

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wayoutwest

Wow, now thats a fantastic looking stove gctest50 - dId you make it yourself?.Are all the knobs ( at the front) air inlets? Is there a baffle system inside? How do you clean it out? Any chance of a photo of the inside?

gctest50

Sorry - meant to add a bit of text: no, not mine - your next project maybe ?

Ihatehalloween

Thanks Ponddigger, but I got sorted out

ponddigger

hi. no bother.can I ask where you got the stove, jack

tommy2bad

ponddigger wrote: »

hi fire lighting in stove ,some heat from stove,jack

Hi Ponddigger, As you had a couple of old bottles, why didn't you cut 1 for a stove and cut the door from a 2'nd one. That way you could have made the door slightly larger and added some rope seal. An air flow regulator below the door and grate and you would have a very professional looking thingy.

I had a mate used to make them with the bottle standing up he used to do it with two bottles. Yeah he acquired the bottles free iykwim.

tommy2bad

eoin.fitz wrote: »

how you post pics on this darn thing....

If the pic is on a website, your own or flicker or insta, just use the postcard thingy, if the pic is a file on your PC then use the paperclip thingy and add atachment.

ponddigger

hi tommy great idea about the second gas bottle. jack

scudo2

Carbon monoxide awareness week starts next week for a good reason.

scudo2

eoin.fitz wrote: »

There is as much danger of carbon monoxide from a factory produced stove as there is from a well made gas bottle stove. They're both essentially metal boxes with fires in them. I know from personal experience that when correctly installed and properly made, gas bottle stoves are perfectly safe to use indoors. I've been using several different ones, which I made, indoors for a long time without any issues at all. I do of course have a carbon monoxide alarm as a precaution but it hasn't made a sound in the two years since installation :-)

Factory produced stoves have to pass health and safety tests and have a CE QUALITY mark, that costs quite a bit and requires a lot of R&D
Therefore I disagree on the point that home made is as safe as certified.

Don't get me wrong, their quite imagatave and I personal think they look great, but only as a decoration feature and not for use indoors. Outdoor I'd still be wary ! Due to explosive nature of steel or cast iron that cannot expand uniformly.
Hence the purpose of CE tests/ certification.
But bear in mind,

This is a public forum your posting on.

What you do, or make in private is your own business.
How would you feel if somebody copied your design and the worst happened ?

Where I'm coming from is.
My Family has metal fabrication factory.
I'm a heating engineer.

And so admire the designs but am terrified of the risks.

scudo2

eoin.fitz wrote: »

I have never heard of steel exploding if heated in a non uniform way. In fact I do a lot of welding and the steel is constantly heated (to extreme temperatures) non-uniformly and has yet to "explode". It may WARP yes, but explode no. It is flexible.

Gas bottles are actually an excellent material for stoves as the cylinder shape brings an inherent strength and prevents this warping. That is why they use cylinders for high pressure gas, because of the strength of that shape.

CE certs are mostly for performance, efficiency and basically to make sure the thing won't fall apart.

There is already a commercially available gas bottle stove. The excellent Hotpod (I Don't Work For Them, Just A Fan) made in england. Passed CE tests with flying colours

But it got CE certification.
Email them and ask them was that easy as your also a fabricator.

Ihatehalloween

@Scudo2.... Why are you bringing this in here.

eoin.fitz

He's just spreading some awareness about a very serious problem. It's a good thing.

Egass13

Ihatehalloween wrote: »

@Scudo2.... Why are you bringing this in here.

Yeah scudo, stop coming on here and peddling your concern for the safety and well being of the general public, shame on you!

@eoin.fitz , had a look at your stoves , nice work mate , wouldn't mind one for the garden , I'll pm you!

Ihatehalloween

@egass.....well said

stevek93

I am thinking of getting one of these how strong are they?