Vortex Rocket Stove Pt 2

A bit of a marathon BUT if you persist you will experience
Time travel, dancing chickens, Titanic fails and eventual success. What more can one cram into a video? (oh yeah, watermelon smoothies)
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[@dgb56bgd]

I’m a 66 YO fart who used to do a lot of welding…producing everything from SS vibratory parts feeders to multi-million dollar Lithium Ion battery manufacturing systems. Now, in retirement, I want to get back to welding again…as I truly enjoyed it. Blessings y’all.

[@MichaelNaydeck]

This is a great video. Awesome looking stove. Aside from the amazing craftsmanship I also learned some extremely valuable tips such as "Lift with your back" and "Don't wash your hands."

[@fidenciocampos3837]

I like the chicken dance. You do good work. I've learned so much. You would make an excellent teacher

[@navigator902]

Aussie Genius.... dreaming only what it would be like to own one of Little Aussie's heaters, stoves, etc., and finally have functional art in my home.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

Really really enjoyed this, and especially the humor, thanks!

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Thanks mate

[@PaulHollandWheels]

I am very impressed Sir. I need to check out your whole channel.

[@catgynt9148]

Incredible video production. Thanks for sharing this with all of the different segments and pieces spliced together. I enjoy your chicken and knife work cutting the hinge tubes. Have you considered adding larger, pneumatic wheels to your equipment table for movement between shop locations? In addition to the scientific information from building this stove, where will you be using this unit? I trust that you are creating a journal documenting your findings. Perhaps you could publish a Tips & Tricks notebook for sale in addition to your rocket stoves. Trusting that you and your family will remain safe during the pandemic as it continues to evolve. Wishing you Peace, health and happiness.

[@JGV_IX]

In South Africa we also have rocket stoves, but this is absolutely next level!! Well done!! 🇿🇦 cheers from the tip of Africa!

[@allplayza]

Hey Mate, must say that you have the best videos relating to Rocket Stoves! Camera work,Audio and explanation 👍

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Thanks mate ☺️

[@marlonvite4152]

Thanks X3 for sharing your video.... it would be nice to see more time about the stove working from all angles than seen how it is built or how it would work less efficiently or more efficiently.... as with all stove, I believe, people want to see performance, performance, performance now .... extend the happy ending, is where the joy is at...

[@hillonwheels8838]

Glad your back. I have been looking forward to this video for a while. Also I am jealous as all get out of your metal tools and glad your job is able to allow you to get them.

[@raphrath8561]

as in your wife allows you to have them because its related to your job?

[@jameshupalo]

You did a great job. Thanks for showing the challenges you faced, makes everyone more intelligent. Good video editing too.

[@cowboyyoga]

You are welcome! Thank you for sharing! It was easy to hang out, because it almost felt like being in the garage right next to you. And wow... the stove is making some great progress. Have to say as much as I love cutting, bending and welding steel - the dancing chicken was my favorite part of the video. A good laugh is always helpful, especially when russian jets are dropping bombs to close for comfort. What a great video! )))

[@leighharvey9150]

I remember that chicken from the first video. Looking forward to seeing this work

[@jeremyobanion8994]

Nice build mate, I wasn't even going to watch your video. But after I watched it🤨, I felt that you earned my subscription.🤔 By the way I love the metal break. Wish I had one. I have one where I work but it's old and wood is the main component, But it works just fine🙂.

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Thanks for the sub!

[@chuckwagoncharlie1733]

Enjoyed the technical side of things.

[@svent7705]

Hello... Nice vid... But i think your basket is a little to high... That might be the reason for the smoke at the first time... Cause it will be a burnback into the filler, and there is no air, and than you have smoke... Maybe shut down 10mm from the upper of your basket... And if it was me... I would build an ashtray which is adjustable... So you can give fresh cold air from below... I think that is the best for your stove I just built my third one and my practice says, give the air from below...

[@jamesbibler6492]

I enjoyed the effort and journey you took us on while you experimented with this project.

[@SuperHurdman]

Good way to see what way to make a cyclone swirl is when you take a bath when you pull the plug watch which way the water goes down the drain!

[@bertemu]

I enjoyed watching. Have a good one 👍🏼

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Thanks mate 👍

[@RozanW]

Effort well spent mate, such a nice build! Can you please show a schematics or diagram explaining how it works and how air flows in it? because I'm still confused how it can make such a nice vortex fire in the riser and how the fire doesn't come out of the side pipes. I'm planning on building one for my own project and hopefully can learn much from this one. Cheers!

[@G58]

36:04 The pandemic wasn’t real! This possibly the best part 2 in rocket stove history. Definitely the best in vortex rocket stove history 🧐😎😜 Part 1 inspired me to actually evolve from vicarious rocket stove design theory, and move forward with my one own ideas by making a mini vortex, employing some of your ideas. Thank you for sharing.

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Thanks mate 👍

[@dogdooish]

I hope this is the beginning of an internal stove/heater system, the major factor I see is the MUCH longer flue/chimney, we built a huge one thinking it would be needed, but had to give it away because it was too hot for our 9X10mtr living room.

[@lloydrmc]

a-HA! I THOUGHT I was catching a "This Old Tony" vibe here and there. Well done! Your content is far superior to most I've seen on KZbin.

[@lucasellyson6872]

Dude you are an amazing fabricator

[@mightymoto2636]

In the intro, became very clear that you seem to be “wise enough” to put your priorities in the correct order. Oh, and I like the dancing chicken also.

[@evitadeicmane9712]

you are good men.beautiful video editing. nice work.thanks!

[@papapetad]

Interesting build. Thanks for the share!

[@B.Cote39]

I'm sorry I caught that on the wrong direction...but it was too late to tell you 😆thx for the videos . Very helpfull

[@victoryfirst2878]

I would like to give you a tip when machining metal, when you use oil you make a mess. Use paraffin candle wax and you will be surprised as to how much less of a mess you have to clean up and not to mention getting chips in your hands. All you have to do is just run the drill or any tool against the candle wax and you are ready to drill with lubrication without the drip !!!!!! The TIG welding is nice but really easy. I prefer to use SMAW as that is what I learned the first time round. I can weld with either and get the same roll of coins tilted on a slant look. Nice work fella too, stated from the other side of the earth. USA. Peace and good luck too. V

[@LittleAussieRockets]

I will have to give that a go. Thanks mate

[@victoryfirst2878]

@@LittleAussieRockets Look forward to see more stove videos fella. Peace and good day too. V

[@josoffat7649]

You had me at 80's montage 💕🤣

[@jayedavies3686]

You can get #10 drill bits that are 4.9mm that are perfect for 3/16’’ rivets

[@benjamindejonge3624]

I will hanging around watching your nice struggle.

[@7eroBubble]

18:56 "Now THAT's a knife!"

[@notsure7318]

thank you; as soon as i saw that i came straight to the comments wanting to know if anyone remarked about that knife!!!!

[@jimfitzgibbon5492]

Hey my friend, let me through a thought your way. I,m a retired tool & die maker with a home shop also in the states. I wonder if your vortex is your draw problem. Creating the flame & air to swirl is keeping it from rising up the exhaust pipe. How can it cause draw up the pipe when all the energy is just spinning in the pipe. The draw up the pipe is what draws The air in the intake. I think people get to rapped up in this mixing the gases with a vortex than the benefits it gives, if any. Give that some thought. You are a very talented lad. I just think you maybe over thinking this project. I have done that more than once. I worked for a R & D department building prototypes most of my life.

[@bikeforever2016]

Love the video, nice to have you back. Awesome to see that TOT techniques transfer to metric.

[@barryhh8217]

Yeah..chicken dance. You funny guy. Good to see you back. like all your toys..eh... tools. Thanks for the video, a lot of work.

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Thanks 👍

[@mickgatz214]

@24.30mins, I thought hacksaws were a thing of the past since you use the angle grinder most of the time/s. :) I'd reckon a cordless angle grinder to my collection......Yup!, SOUNDZ like "Tool Time".

[@shravan.malipedi]

Happy to 🤩 see 👍You. Thank You soo much for sharing Your knowledge, I am being watching all Your videos. The best I like cyclone flame and because of it no smoke coming up. Thank You.😊

[@overlordsshadow]

Amazing skills man!

[@flowerpower555]

Love the ideas ☺️

[@flowerpower555]

That tooth hurty intro rofl way to pull that one off 😸🤣

[@davidcarreras2422]

Brilliant. Thank you for sharing.

[@G58]

40:12 A thought I had from part 1 was that apparently the main reason why glass windows in fires get discoloured is the difference between the temperature of the inside of the stove and the outside. The way to solve this is to use two pieces of glass with a gap between them. The owner of the UK’s most successful woodburning stove company told me that in about 2002. Peace

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Thanks! That's good to know 👍👍

[@tdimccullough]

there's an old guy called David S and he has done a lot of rocket stove building to heat his garage and he seems to be worth a look at, and you have to be able to see the flame inside the tube

[@catgynt9148]

david mccullough Are you suggesting a secondary window in the flue pipe? My mind boggles at the engineering requirements to add a viewing port on the flue pipe that would not distort the vortex and withstand the additional temperatures.

[@tdimccullough]

@@catgynt9148 no I was commenting on the glass window he was fitting to the side

[@lotharschiese8559]

Absolutely really no need except to through some light, looking down the ass end shows its working!

[@wackyzakyracer8568]

Glad to see you back. Maybe see if you can fit a glass so you can see the vortex as it’s a shame it’s not on view. Keep up the great work.

[@LittleAussieRockets]

A glass tube would be great.

[@rogerdale5451]

Hilarious (chicken drawing +), and genius (everything else).

[@mb4lunch]

The dancing chicken was worth all of it...

[@dgb56bgd]

If you don’t mind, I’d like to know more about your TIG welder and your PLASMA cutter. Your TIG welder seems to be quite versatile…much more so than my old MILLER machine was. Blessings and thanks.

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Hi David, my TIG welder is a unimig razor AC/DC pulse. I believe in the States they are just called a razor weld. It's an inverter machine with a really good range in its pulse settings, and it's ability to cope with hard work. I have a friend who's a pipe welder. He used one of these machines for years without drama.

[@JulianMakes]

Great video! And hilarious too, ive just started delving into rocket stove and I’m watching all your videos. Ive also just copied your helping hand tool too, i think its amazing. Thanks loads!

[@ryanrotten8595]

Cut the air inlet back just a little bit to match the leading edge of the square pipe rite behind the door they won't fight for air. Just a thought great bild 👍

[@catgynt9148]

Thanks for this marathon. It has been 2 years since this first posted; I enjoyed it then and again this evening. I’ve missed your posts and presentation style. Has your dear wife graced you with a son yet? Your daughters are cute but I do not see them growing into machinists or playing with your tools when they mature. Wishing you and your family a blessed growing season, gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings. Peace brother

[@jamesbond7999]

Great job !!

[@JeremyTaylorNZ]

yeah no need to make the vortex swirl with the coriolis effect - just like you can make water swirl either way down the sink plughole depending on which way you give the water a quick stir before pulling the plug, as you have shown, as long as you do something to start the swirl, it'll keep on going

[@keithrichardsson9008]

Excellent, real nice. Thank you.

[@DemieliWrightJr]

I saw mini rocket stoves in this video or maybe it was pt 1. do you sell rocket stoves? I saw the water heater video . are you thinking about making a water radiator heater.(wonder how hot it would get. would love to see one of those videos, enjoyed watching your rocket builds.!!!

[@loydanderson8166]

Outstanding. Keep up the verbal info. I hate silent videos. Just out of curiosity ... if the secondary airflow is to create a hotter burn wouldn't a cold airflow be better? If you are burning oxygen ... cold air is heavier, therefore more (condensed) oxygen. I may be wrong ... just thinking. 👍

[@bodgytinkerer2883]

Mate, so good, especially seeing how great the final product is! In addition to appreciating your skill and imagination with these things you make, I also appreciate the smattering of humour and especially like how you include problems and the thought process of working through them. As someone who hamfists his way from one crafting debacle to another and having to bodgy my way out of it, I find that especially useful. Thanks very much

[@mikeconnery4652]

Well said. Yup 😆

[@catgynt9148]

It appears that you achieved your goal. Dancing chicken and children underfoot I understand; no clue on the “Dog’s breakfast.” Greetings from NE Ohio, USA. Wishing you and your family peace, health and happiness as the pandemic continues to evolve. Thanks for sharing this video and it’s predecessor. You are an excellent educator; ignore the negativity, some people can only focus on faults and overlook your achievements. Stay safe. Peace brother.

[@rossarnold1151]

Hi Cat, a "dogs breakfast" is Australasian slang for: - a mess.

[@mikeconnery4652]

Nice build

[@mr.cryptobull1520]

The ceramic board insulation goes on the INSIDE of the burn areas

[@douglasfur3808]

I find it hard to conceptualize burning gasses because they are invisible. Here are some data that I find useful. (American customary measure and very approximate numbers to make the arithmetic easy 😁.) 1 cubic foot of methane gas yields 1000 BTU. It takes about 10 cubic feet of air to get the 2 cubic feet of O2 to burn the 1 cubic foot of gas. Soft woods yield about 5000BTU per pound. So 1/5th pound would yield 1000BTU. 1 cuft ÷ 35lbs per cuft = .0287cuft, the volume of one pound of wood. .0287 ÷ 5 = .0057 cu ft, the volume of wood needed to yield 1000BTU. TAKING the 10:1 air to gas ratio to guesstimate the air to wood ratio, you need about 10cuft of air for .0057 cu ft of wood. That's about 31/4" X 31/4" X 1" compared to 10 cu ft. These aren't numbers to bet the farm on but they do illustrate why rocket burners roar trying to get all that air through the system.

[@c.m.electronics6571]

Nice piece of work! There is always a leaarning process and it's good that you analyse what could be done better in order to improve the efficiency. Thank you for making this video! (I saw the dancing chicken ...) ;-)

[@luminouslentil8510]

Give the secondary a 'slope'ending at just before the vortex. This will create a massive venturi skin to an f1 diffuser

[@nigtturner]

A thing of beauty

[@The_Unobtainium]

really envy you this sheet metal brake!

[@AselflimitedcapitalisemW0mamon]

This KZbin channel should be called: FABRICATING ENTERTAINMENTS - AND USEFUL STUFF TOO

[@phylismaddox4880]

Cool project! Love the chicken!

[@oclv110sl]

Inspiring. I've found something to play with in my retirement from being a firefighter. Step one, learn to weld. Thank you

[@Guns_N_Gears]

Next video should be on, how to add bigger wheels on your work bench 👍👍

[@dumitrascuclaudiu7097]

I love your Little fethery asistent...☺️

[@buckeyejim2989]

Did you get your time travel lathe fixed, or do you have to wait 4 mo to read comments? Lol. Good to see ya back. 👍😀

[@PetervanHofwegen]

He's back! I seriously wondered where you were!

[@JuanCruz-et8so]

Enjoyed and learned thank You 🙏 for sharing

[@robertfulton9852]

I’m going to see if I can duplicate your stove. I’m here in the USA and it just looks cool.

[@ARCSTREAMS]

huh so that open pip on the door is the size of opening needed for proper air intake? put a mesh screen on the end though to make it safer

[@rimzalia1362]

My proposals; 1) put Air Damper\Controller at the Primary Air pipe Inlet 2) cut off the 2nd Air Square tubing before pallet loader. After that; do not put any air controller (let air enters freely without any human manipulation) 3) remove the air controller at the riser air inlet or always fully open this inlet 4) insulate the riser with perlite

[@dougsellner9353]

Thanks! - Love your channel, I'm going to do a variant of this design (secondary on bottom with tube in center, double walled riser with forced air heat exchanger), just ordered a TIG - would appreciate you talking about baseline welders, you seem to know your poop! Noticed you like to set pulse, min, max etc... And why don't you have/use a plasma cutter?

[@titusm]

Did you consider making waste oil as a fuel for the rockets? It seems to fit very well as the oil needs lots of air. I think this would work very well as a waste oil burner.

[@catdaddy7582]

I'm going to build a rocket stove with some slight changes to accommodate waste oil. I've built a couple of conversion units for woodstoves, and ran and maintained Black Gold units in my shop.

[@gcrad1]

Like the "backwards" chicken!

[@jayedavies3686]

Congratulations on your apprenticeship

[@leonkane8240]

Your time traveling jaunt has cause a foul temporal anomaly!

[@richardlaurent7229]

Excellent

[@lesthompson5907]

interesting development in it's build. at them Tempricha & the fact it as a ember bed if for example if one intraduct a 2" steel pipe bed was charcoal in to the stream of the burn. in the rocket stove, & a copper pipe was to pas s stem down the. 2" pipe of the charcoal Bead the result in the 2" pipe would result in a plasma created by the burning of oxygen within being burnt off & as a result hydrogen coming out of the other end creating hydro carbon's that will run a generator for of grid camping. so the siystom you have built is capable of boiling water to stem & that stem can be trend into hydrogen to run a engine to produce electricity . their will need to be sufficer supply of caracole to replenish the plasma stream as the oxygen is burnt off so 4" pipe elongated to hold charcoal that can feed the Bern zone . as the oxygen reacts to the charcoal Bern within the pipe . this must reman air free so that hydrogen levelling the pipe dose not become contaminated with air. this is a very impotent point cooling it within your tank of water will allow it to barn oaring or even clear . adding are at the pint of combustion will let it power the engine & drive it without contaminating it with tar like the wood gas devises do at times. once upon a tine the early balloons were field this way, before we used hot air. work as well so their you have. the as some systems on the markit that ues water dripping in to a caracoled Bern zone that sucks the gas out in to a vacuum to power the engine's if this approach is ues the burn zone will remove any oxygen in the siystom . berlin in the rocket stove wood to stat the proses the pint is using stem to predust hydrogen or water drops solong as the oxygen is Bern of in the Bern zone you will have success.

[@ThePaulv12]

Re fire rotation direction, no it doesn't matter. In general Coriolis effects cause low pressure systems in the equatorial regions to rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere imparted by the spin of the earth. This then determines the direction of rotation of the high pressure systems of each hemisphere the southern hemisphere being anticlockwise and the northern clockwise. Why this happens is because equatorial regions are characterized by upward movement of air from convection due to greater solar heating. Coriolis has nothing to do with water going down sinks or baths. On the micro level the effects are negligible for combustion efficiency - in the real world I defy any person to prove otherwise since there's too many variables in a wood heater to conclusively state that Coriolis makes this heater better if the flame spins one direction or that heater better if it spins in the other - meaning the spin direction is irrelevant. What'll make the stove really go is if you put a venturi in it on the pre fire side and use auxiliary air pipe to bypass the venturi for slow combustion and/or moderating the flame. The door/vent etc at the front acts as a venturi anyhow so you'd be reinventing the wheel but it could be refined for the purposes of a small heater for great effect I'm thinking. I'm not sure of why you'd want to pre heat the intake air. Less dense, less volume of air and therefore oxygen (but same % of O2), so less combustion, less heat, less efficiency. Might be beneficial for when it's closed down for slow combustion but!

[@nonoi9987]

black steel life time in this stove is just 2 week or max 2 monts, all steel need be covered be stove brick

[@LittleAussieRockets]

It's still going through. If the wall thickness of the steel was 1.6 mm then yes I would agree with your statement, but it is in fact 5 mm in the thinnest and 8 mm in the thickest and it is still running just fine.

[@nonoi9987]

@@LittleAussieRockets my stove ruin black steel plate in 2 week, wass only this not protected steel and in 2 week was like was in solt water 100 year this hapen from 1000+ degrees Celsius in 30 day

[@nicov.2151]

hahahaha that chicken walking backwards @7:08 cracked me up !!!!! But i also might have a suggestion for the exhaust. Here in Holland, we had in the 70's a lot of houses with an H shaped exhaust. The middle hortizontal pipe would be connected tot he riser., The flow would go left and right, and the heat obviously goes out the top side of the two vertical pipes. Drawing cold air from the bottom, and cause a tremendous suction in the horizontal pipe....if you catch my drift :-) ( img.fruugo.com/product/0/83/18200830_max.jpg )

[@LittleAussieRockets]

I will have a look. Thanks

[@kylestrokelitus360]

Whats that nifty leg stand you use to hold the frame and torch head? Homemade ground clamp?

[@LittleAussieRockets]

That's my 3rd hand. Torch hold/clamp/ground

[@kylestrokelitus360]

@@LittleAussieRockets yea, immediately noticed as a NEED. Where do i get it? Or drop a link for a dropbox where ya have a few photos i can see this masterpiece to make one of my own

[@stefafanu]

SAVE -> Favorites

[@Mopar-Pioneer]

If I can make a suggestion, larger wheels on your mobile work bench ???

[@LittleAussieRockets]

I ended up buying a forklift 😁

[@MsMaidin]

HA HA HA Interesting is i like the chicken walk ha ha ha

[@LevAgency]

33:22 Who else did that BASIC addition/arithmetic way faster then google... and a certain youtuber...

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Me! I did 😁

[@nathan1459]

Man make fire: man make cuppa.

[@ЕвгенийИгоревичПотапов]

Нужен либо огнеупорный стеклопакет, либо обдув стекла изнутри чистым воздухом, тогда я думаю сажи на стекле не будет...

[@varietasVeritas]

How long does it take the fire to errode through your unprotected metal? Have you experimented with concrete or ceramic coating?

[@stephenmitchell8324]

Very well built but that chicken could have helped you push that trolley at the beginning of the video

[@paullynch1938]

You’re a clever dude, what do you make of laser welding mate

[@LittleAussieRockets]

Expensive for the newcomer but if you had a lot of production work with thin material, it would definitely be the way to go. I think because of the cost it's going to be out of the reach of the average person for some time but as a manufacturer it's cost would be offset by the increase in productivity.

[@paullynch1938]

@@LittleAussieRockets Thanks for replying mate, great videos

[@tdimccullough]

doesn't time fly when you're having fun

[@CD-xo5ju]

Haha had to laugh at the 12 steps too far to the drill press..good job jesus never said that when he walked on water eh lol..12 steps of horus 12 (hours of day)

[@markstanden202]

L.A.R. in the first video: "... not that difficult to make.." Also L.A.R. "titanic fails.." "if you persist.." ... and many more hours than were actually filmed for something only possible in a welder's machine shop... *scratches head*

[@IggyDalrymple]

The truth is that his last 4 months has been training the hen.