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So good. I expected an instructable about casting iron from the pic it looks so good. Perfect skull detail 👌 and I love the green smoke effect. Thanks for sharing 👍

Hey Jester, thanks for that, and for the link too :)

Hey Jossyratfink. Thanks for commenting. Yeah, I was pleased with how the yoga mat worked and it means I can stop being embarrassed, showing up to class with a big muddy grass stain on my old mat ;)

Hey Alwazsmiling. Thanks a lot for the comment - really nice to hear that encouragment :)

Hi Headache. Thanks for your encouragement. It's a steep learning curve, and god knows I made lots of mistakes, so I hope some of this info helps.Peace, Bongo.

Hi there akanke4. Sorry for the delay. I don't have the answer though I'm sorry! Best wishes, Bongo

Morning anthi11. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, thanks for the question. I don't have any direct experience with Husqvarna saws but either of those would probably do a good job, my preference being towards the bigger 3120xo, I see no reason why it wouldn't work very well :)

Really nice work, this looks to be a super useful design tool. Thanks for sharing!

Merry xams friend! Thank you for your kind words. Yourquestions made me thing of the zen saying: "Before enlightenment, chopwood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." I guess, much like the principles I talk about I think of 'enlightenment' as aprocess. Sometimes it's happening, other times not so much... Hopefully overtime it starts to happen more often... The thing the zen saying above hides, is that practices like these do changehow you live and a act to some degree (how could practicing different ways ofbeing in the world not!?). Anyway, thanks again for the encouragement. Peace, Bongo.

Awesome to hear people are finding it worth reading! :D Thank you.

Good Afternoon Mihsin, thanks for this comment and for voting! Thanks also, for a perceptive safety tip! I am afraid I have become somewhat lazy in taking out the chuck key, partly because that lathe has a safety interlock and wont start unless the guard is down (and it can't be down with the chuck key inserted)... Still very bad practice though, especially when other people might be watching. So no excuses. Will do better in future! Thanks again, Bongo.

Thank you friend!

Spot on my friend!

Good evening Sherry. It's truly wonderful to hear that. Really makes it worth writing to hear it has helped in however a small way. Thanks for letting me know :D

Good evening. Such a good way of putting it! And it works on many levels - superficial cosmetic flaws are often quite tolerable if the design and materials are sturdy and well built. Hooray for the blanket box! :D

Hey Funkpol, Thank you very much for the encouragement.

Love it! Beautifully documented project. Reminds me of my very first welding experience, which was this https://youtu.be/0xTS3curk8I experimental sideways burning, self feeding monster, made with big old gas cylinders. I like the compactness of this Canadian design, but I still think it is better to separate the burn chambers and the heat exchanger - helps the burn chambers get super hot quickly = efficient complete combustion... for a long discussion of that see the design article here http://www.floweringelbow.org/category/wood-stove/Either way, I love your stove, thanks for sharing!Bongo.

Hey Amardes, thanks for that. Am working on a proper video but there is a little clip of the first tests of it mulling green sand on my FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/floweringelbow/

Love that Idea! Let me know how it goes!

Great, hope this is of some use then. Good luck! I would love to here how you get on. B.

Haha. Thanks PepperTree! The heavy platter is almost certainly very unbalanced, but it runs true after the routing in step 24. For my uses the fastest it goes is ~50rpm which is really not fast enough to cause any kind of problems or wobble...

Hey Crazypj. Thanks for so much for the vote :D Great idea with the tyre sidewall... I may well try that in the future!

That's next up, after I finish the rotary welding table :p

Hey Vulcaman! I'm impressed, thanks for sharing. Nice design and write up.

Hi Stephen, thanks for the question. the mill is overbuilt enough that you can get away with only two. The proper angle brackets also help with alignment though. I thought I was going to be using 4, that's all.

Hahaha. Thanks Superbender :)

Awesome project. Loving the mix of nice woodworking with the electronics...

HAHA. Steve, I can't help you sorry. It was a hand me up from my nephew you didn't think it was cool enough!!?? I have no idea what you call the style or where it was from... I do love it though - super warm :D

Thanks Sheripres!

Yay, thaiks Wildwulfwoman :D

Thanks Tytower. I have tried the oxalic acid in the past, with mixed results. It's very hard to get a consistent unblemished look. At least that's what I found. Sandings not ideal, but it is kinda instant.. Haven't tried bleach before...

Thanks Seamster! haha. yeah the guy helping me, Robin, was just visiting for a bit and left 'needing' a bigger chainsaw. His partner wasn't so pleased with me... Yeah the inner art is really awesome. It has twisted my mind though, so that I can no longer look at trees without thinking about how they'd look sawn up.

Loving the style of this. Looks awesome! Also love the use of all the old bits'n'bobs. Thanks for sharing.

Hey Doing2much. Thanks for the encouragement! Means a lot.

Hey Mndietz nice tip. For the insulation round the heat riser though I would certainly go for something a bit lighter like perlite which has less than half the mass, but a better insulative value. It could be good for a fixed installation though, where you never move the rocket stove...

Hey man, thanks for taking the time to writ this. Sound like you're really into the refactor mixing side of things. I must admit I didn't exactly follow your last message, but I think I get the idea... It's tricky without diagrams and the like. Have you thought of writing your own instructable, based on your experiences? If not you totally should - sounds like you have a load of good creative info..

Hi James. Thanks for the comment. I wasn't actually planning any refractory in the grill area for this project, I don't think it would be enough benefit to justify the extra work (also I have 5 junk radiators hanging about that I can replace the grill with if it ever burns through). For now I think adding refractory to that part (the grill) would only slow down the heat transfer... Where refractory would be good - though not necessary - is round the combustion chamber, where transmitting heat is the opposite of what we want. A thin layer of something on the inside would be ideal - I just don't know how to make it strong enough, nor how to stick such a thin layer to the inside metal face. Ideas?

Seamster, I love it! It was just yesterday that I was drilling a hole in something thinking, I really need this lower down to get my weight over it. I ended up getting a stool to stand on (which was as unstable and ridiculous as it sounds)... For other more fiddly, sideways forcing type jobs jobs its nice to have the vice good and high. Being able to move it round the shop is great too! I may have to put it on the project list... Did you consider making a wheeling attachment? Or do you just drag it about? Or use a sack-truck maybe? Thanks for sharing, B.

Hi Friend, sorry I missed this comment so am a little late replying. My experience ends at 47" bars I am afraid, and I have never had the problem you describe. You may want to comment on one of my vids of youtube - this one's popular https://goo.gl/X2Y6he - I have quite a knowledgeable audience there and hopefully someone will chime in with some advice. Having said that, are you sure it's the bar cutting bowed? On very wide boards the cupping that happens when one side dries faster than the other, can happen very quickly, or is more evident, as even a small moisture difference over such a large distance will be noticable... In my experience that cupping happens in a matter of hours (if that) when the suns out and one face is exposed....

Piece of cake. I just reach in with an old glove and scoop it out.....

Yes, I have A cup wheel shaped wire brush for the angle grinder, I used it a little bit but it seemed the wrong shape to get in there. I think your are right though - if I could have waited and used a pack like this https://goo.gl/m4bRiX they would have worked great.

Thanks Redstone... Will think on about doing a little Rapidor Manchester tour / fiddle about on YouTube maybe.

HAHA. "speak chewi" love it! I'll work on my elocution ;)

haha MLG, nice story - and you lived to tell the tale, which is good! Yeah, I am a bit gun ho with my safety sandals I must admit... I do change to boots when welding though!

Thanks :D

Thanks Greenbriel!

Looks amazing. I have some left over marble scraps too.... Ah well the project list gets a bit longer..

"workshopery" - my new favourite word! Thanks.

Thanks BBT4. I'm not clear on what you mean by the 'heating batteries' though?

Thanks Jerry! Appreciate that. MacGyver is a hero.

Thanks for the encouragement throbscottle, means a lot to me :)

I bet you can! Remember that this 'able was a result of quite a few years of tinkering about and mucking things up. That and benifits form other people's experiences and teachings. It's just I'm mostly sharing the bits that worked so it probably seemed easier for me than it was ;)

That's a work in progress my friend!

Awesome, let us know how it goes!

I recon so. Even if you buy one, consider adding a heatsink or something to reduce the heat a bit.

Thanks :)

I recon so. Even if you buy one, consider adding a heatsink or something to reduce the heat a bit.