Since firewood, gas and coal are constantly becoming more expensive, summer residents and owners of country houses are constantly looking for ways to reduce the cost of the heating season. Someone chooses solid fuel boilers for long burning, others are trying to conduct experiments on combining a fireplace and a water heating circuit.
But there is a way out much easier and cheaper. If you have a small suburban volume, then mining stoves can handle its heating. It is relatively easy to make them with your own hands, and such an oven can save a lot of money.
Advantages of this kind of heaters
Such furnaces are characterized by extremely simple installation, elementary manufacturing technology and their "eternity". Since there are no complex structural elements, it can work for years. Given the speed and technology of disassembly, it can be transported in the trunk of a car to any distance.
What to make of?
As a rule, craftsmen can make a home-made furnace for working out from sheet metal. But access to normal metalnot always and not everyone has it, and a normal welder who can weld all the seams extremely carefully and with complete tightness is often not within reach at all.
Based on the realities of our life, it is better to limit ourselves to a minimum of welded joints, and use an empty gas cylinder to make a furnace for testing. With your own hands it will be much easier to assemble a couple of elements into one whole, without resorting to complex technological methods.
Constructive elements
Having de alt with the main points, let's get to work. Regardless of what you will make furnaces for working out from, you need to prepare two circles of metal with your own hands. We assume that their diameter will correspond to that of a gas cylinder. The chimney pipe must be strictly vertical, not having any horizontal sections!
One of the tanks will be located above the other, holding on to the afterburner pipe, in which several holes must be drilled for better air flow into the combustion chamber. Important! A plate should be welded across the upper chamber (on its upper cover), which does not reach the bottom of the container a little.
This is a kind of "chaff", from which the heated air is reflected, heating the chamber. If you forget about this extremely important detail, then the oils of the furnace for working out (which are quite simple to make with your own hands) will simply eat a hole.
In the top coverthe lower chamber needs to make two holes: one of them should have a damper, covering which you can adjust the draft, preventing excessive fuel consumption. It is better to provide the second hole with a funnel through which you will pour used oil into the furnace.
How to kindle?
Everything is ridiculously banal: pour about a liter of oil into the lower compartment, put a small amount of ignited paper there. When the oil flares up and boils, pour in another five liters.
It is better to ask a good locksmith to draw up a detailed drawing of a furnace for testing, as he can provide for a tie-in water heating circuit, as well as other useful devices.
