well there's my hinge this is how I had to mount it so I can open it and then
open the door and I didn't make the inside too small what I did was raise
the bottom of it four inches which really removed a whole bunch of cubic
inches that this thing would need to heat up and if it still doesn't heat up
I'm gonna bring the back end the same amount four inches but I've had this out
here now for about thirty minutes and
was that up to
about two and a quarter and that's not bad for just 30 minutes so I'm going to
adjust this a couple of times over the next hour and I'll show you what the
final temperature is all right it's been about hour that is officially the
hottest I've ever got this 275 I'm thinking I still may need to fill the
back of this thing in a few inches that's a whole lot of cubic inches to
heat up for no reason I'm beginning to understand that when you build a solar
oven it just doesn't make any sense to build it any bigger then your pot you
know just the size that get whatever you're gonna cook you in there and
that's it but I want to make this work I'm pretty sure I can get it to 300 and
if I close that back in bring it in four and a half inches like I did the bottom
I think it'll be satisfactory I have a friend who's made a solar oven and his
solar oven has got the highest temperature achieved so far on YouTube
and if you want to see that it's jww m2 and I've got his channel featured on my
youtube homepage Erica just look down on the right lower right you can click on
that go right to his channel so I'll try this in another hour and see what we've
gotten up to and that'll be about two and a half hours out here and surely
it'll be as high as it'll get by then
yeah we're at 300 if this didn't get any hotter than that I could live with that
I sort of neglected this I didn't come out and adjust it and to the Sun you
know and it was way off so I'm gonna I'm gonna give it a half-an-hour and check
it one more time because it might have got hotter than that while I was gone I
was well I was in there on the computer you know how you get lost sometimes and
lose track of time so this time I'm gonna be diligent I'm gonna come back in
exactly a half an hour and that I'd be about as high as it will get all right
one more clip well it's just a tick over 300 like maybe 305 maybe 310 and I want
to stop the test I'm happy with 300 I don't know what happened I just cut it
off by mistake I'm happy with 300 I can cook pretty
much anything I want to at 300 degrees if it ever does get hotter than that
I'll be sure to let you know and I may actually cook something in it tomorrow
and now I'm gonna put this video up and then I'm gonna sit down I'm going to
tell you a very long very bizarre story including my getting fired never been
fired my entire life but that stories coming up look where it soon at a
newsstand near you well I thought I'd check it one more time and it's actually
about 325 or so but look at this my glass cracked and that's the it's the
inside piece I mean it cracked a lot so I'm gonna have to remove that and I
bought these they're supposed to be tempered oh well