well I'm finally getting around to making some adjustments and some
corrections to my solar oven when I made this I had never done anything solar
before and this was my first solar oven project and I've since come to realize
that it's just too big an area this is really big and I do tend to overdo
things sometimes so what I'm gonna do is I've got four inches from the back wall
to this front edge I'm going to fill all that in with cardboard all the way down
to here and right here there's six inches from the top edge of this to the
bottom edge so I'm gonna fill all that in with cardboard so I'm gonna have
cardboard in the back bringing it out and carpet on the floor bringing it up
and that will decrease the amount of area that needs to be heated and then my
reflectors I realized with some experimentation with a mirror that the
angle I had my reflectors set at were completely wrong
70 degrees from my experiments is the optimal angle to the the glazing of the
glass so I've got my wood cut out I didn't figure that would be interesting
enough to show you've all seen wood cut what I'm going to do now is take this
into my living room all for these pieces and I'm gonna trace these out on the
reflective material that I have about a four by eight sheet from a place called
American acrylics and basically it's about a sixteenth of an inch thick maybe
a little more and it's like a mirror so I'm gonna be cutting them out and gluing
them on and then assembling this with some aluminum angle
that I bought and then I'm going to mount it to that with a hinge so I can
open the door anyway I'm gonna get to work okay I've got all these angled
pieces traced out on my four by Cheeta reflective polycarbonate I'm gonna cut
them out with some shears and take it on my shop and rubber cement them all
together and I'll show you that when I'm done all right I got all my pieces cut
and I got my glue then I'm gonna start spraying this down I'm gonna have to
read on the back of that to see how long it's going to take to dry I may have to
send some paint cans on that to hold it down
and I've got this aluminum angle here that I'm gonna hold the whole thing
together with the corners
all right I'm gonna start blowing it down all right there's one it took me
long enough I'm holding the corners to get there I think I mentioned it already
with this aluminum angle it's one by one and got all my holes drilled I got two
of them mounted
and I didn't go overboard with screws this time I really showed restraint I'm
proud of myself all right three more have it all screwed together
I'll have this part of it done today see in a bit all right I got two sides
connected we want a little peek at how shiny this stuff is it
we'll leave that on de l'homme finished two more almost done
well I got it resting on there I haven't quite figured out I'm going to uh it's
got to be able to hinge I think I've got an idea
thank I'm gonna come up with a board straight like this between both these
hinges and then come up with a board on this side and a board on this side and
but it into that piece on both sides and I'll be able to just tilt this backwards
fold it back and then open the door up I'll tell you what I make this thing any
heavier I'm gonna put a fifth wheel hitch and a heavier suspension and
shocks and a little bit overboard on building this but I got so much time and
so much money into this just determined to make it work so this is it this is
called the heavens flame reflector and I got it at 70 degree angle to the glazing
and the way I came to that measurement was just experimenting with a mirror at
different angles and acts 70 degrees with the glazing exactly Square to the
Sun at 70 degrees the mirror was reflecting the Sun to the dead center of
the solar oven so I just can't think of anything better than dead center so
there we go I've got a few more things to do I still gotta put the cardboard on
the inside and mount this hinging thing here I I'm not a hundred percent set on
how I want to do I may think about it overnight but maybe
I'll put this up show you my progress see you you guys are tired
crazy JC yes are you tired