Fire Tornado

This Fire Tornado idea aims to make an air tornado vortex powered and visualized by smoke and fire. The updraft which sustains the vortex is created by the hot air of the fire (the fire creates its own weather).

There are fire tornados in the wild:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DbwfNSLshW8

This design is based on the less dangerous (fog) tornado but without the need for a fan.

Step 1: Building the tornado chamber

The tornado chamber is constructed from 3 sheets of 3X5 foot Hardibacker material

Comments

[tinker234]

cool wow run the fire torando

[reeding]

 dude thats badass

[=SMART=]

FFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

[evanwehrer]

Nice.

[walkalongaviation]

Glad you like it!

[edfel01]

can i use ur line drawings for a site im using?

[edfel01]

SWEET!!!

[joejoerowley]

Very Cool!

[A good name]

A certain bible story comes to mind XD

[walkalongaviation]

"...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..."

[Arbitror]

Nice Job!
RATED: *****
=)

[killerjackalope]

Nice job, I was considering making one of these but didn't have anything fire proof enough lying around. By the way you can embed video from you tube on the site or from quite a few video hosts...

[walkalongaviation]

Hi Killerjackalope, Thanks for the comments. I was able to embed the youtube video but the crackle.com video required a different approach which works better than the first version. Use of the HardyBacker was recommended by the hardware store.

[killerjackalope]

Aye I'm usually good at substitutions for things here but I just didn't have anything lying around, I have a feel stainless boxes lying around somewhere, they're bent to hell but If I reshape them and cut a few holes I could make one of these... Actually I wonder how small a scale one of these could work on...

[walkalongaviation]

I found the size of the fire needs to match the diameter of the chimney and that a jar cap of about 1 inch radius was enough for a 3 inch diameter chimney pipe. I tried a bottle cap but it was too small.

[killerjackalope]

I was thinking of making a very small one with a gas supply, it'd be very easy to make, since I can vary the fuel supply as much as I need...

[Kiteman]

Cool (Cool? this is fire) - I've seen this done with fans and water-mist to show model tornadoes, but this is much more fun, like you're making one of those "living" flames from Backdraft.