hi mate i have seen this stuff pop up a lot just lately, please be carefull when putting these home made stoves in sheds, as it does not take much for you to drop of to sleep, and then not wake up.
i think for what these cost, it is worth savin up and getting something that will last a very long time, i make an awfull lot of stuff for my self, but when i started to look into all this type of stuff for my workshop, i new deep down that it would not be safe if i done it my self, as not only do you need the fire to be safe, its the flu system that you need to work well to, as you dont want chimney fires, now if its for out side when camping then make your own, but when its for shed, which is built out of the stuff that you are feeding the stove, i think that you are better to save the money, and get something a bit more substantial, than knocking something up, with a bit of scrap and a few bolts.
these are not that much, and since i have had mine i have not looked back.
http://www.campingsolutions.co.uk/stoves/frontier-stove/
i think if you are an engineer, or a competent welder, and are that way minded, then maybe making your own is not so bad, but it send shivers down me spine when i think of a stove full of wood, in a wooden shed, held together with a few bolts, made out of an old tin can.
maybe i worry to much, but would hate to see one of you great lot, dying, or read in the paper that he went from carbon monoxide poisoning.
take care.
lee.
here is mine it did not take long to put in, i used the existing 60 mill tube, at the bottom, so that i could still use the damper, but then i extended the rest of the flu with 120mill twin wall grade a stainless steel flu. even when its on full blast you can stll touch the pipe, which is great because it means when you cut the hole for the flu system, and can go very tight to the flu pipe.
from what i read, if i had just used the 60 mill strait out the work shop, when the cold air hits the pipe, its this that contributes to the tar build up, which is what causes the chimney fires, by using a piece of twin wall this helps with that, also but putting the twin wall up through the shed roof, it will get no where near as hot as if you went strait up with the 60 mill that the stove comes with, that gets so hot, its unbelievable, as soon as i changed that to the grade A stainless twin wall, all that stoped.
take care.
lee.
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