well I got my $40 stove in my shop here and I'm bolting the legs back on these
are the parts that go on the top and everything's here accounted for except
now I know why they sold the stove upon closer inspection one of the little
tangs is broke off of that leg see how this leg has two tangs this one snapped
off somewhere and it's old and rusty so it's been off for quite a while but I
think I can do some engineering on this Yankee engineering because I'm a Yankee
I've drilled a hole through there and I got some big washers in a long 5/16 bolt
I'm going to try to rake this up or a little hold tight if it doesn't hold
tight I know where there's another stove just like this except slightly larger
and the guy wants 50 bucks for it so I'm not totally out but I'll see if I can
rig this up I got some fender washers holding this on great big half-inch
washers and I think that'll do I've tapped on it with a hammer that's not
going anywhere
if you're really really good you can braise cast iron I've seen it done my
dad's done it but it's one of the things I one of the many things I have a master
there's a lot of things I can do but none of them really really well except
eat and gain weight I'm a master at that anyway yeah I don't hold I wish I could
braise better than I I can or outside make an attempt at braising this but I
could make it even worse and I'm gonna get my stove
put back together tipped up and I got my shelves down taken down I got my ten
there to go through the wall I'm going to cut a about a 16 inch circle out
maybe 18 inch and then I'm going to put 10 over it I've got a six inch hole
through that to put my pipe through and before it's all over I'll have some
cement backer board about four feet up on each wall here behind the stove and
I'll be cooking here heating up my shucker a couple of days all right I've
got the first section of pipe screwed on to the flange on the stove I got my
holes drilled on either side now you can see that for the damper I have to damp
right here I'm fixing to put the damper this goes inside and then this rod here
goes through that hole and then through this on the inside of the pipe and then
I'm gonna bolt my elbow down and another two foot section of pipe and I'm gonna
push it up against the wall here and get an idea where that pipe will go through
and next my next clip will be me cutting the hole or having cut a hole through
that and putting the tent up well we're getting closer I've got my hole cut
through the wall I got my 10 here and I've cut a perfectly symmetrical 6-inch
hole right now I'm taking my Dremel and knocking off the slag here because I'm
pretty sure people are gonna be stopping out in the street that come up and
admire this perfectly symmetrical 6-inch hole I don't want them to cut their
fingers
I don't have a circle cutter I don't have anything that's exactly six inches
in round and I needed to cut that six inch circle out of that piece of tin so
I asked myself Brad what would Chuck Norris do and it came to me in a dream I
made this out of wire and here's what you do do all right there it is
I got two more sections an elbow two more sections and a rain cap to put on
and well I was gonna say I could make fire but I still got to get my cement
backer board in there between the stove and the wall but this afternoon I'll be
making fire there we go I have fire
there's my homemade bracket there to hold the back straight
already another project done I finally have man
it is so nice to have some heat in this shop after 15 years I finally got to
meet is one of the things I wanted to do for 15 years I think I'm gonna take a
nap right here in front of the fire nighty-night