all right I don't think I get started making the rocket stove out of this
propane tank I've already got the vial of the moon and I did that by shoving a
bar through this and then hooking onto the valve with a pipe wrench and using
the metal bar here hold the tank and the pipe wrench to unscrew now I already
said in my last video that I don't recommend you doing this unless you're
100% certain you know what you're doing so I'll say it again I take no
responsibility if you should decide to try to pull the valve off a propane tank
you certainly want to make sure it's empty before you do anything especially
concerning making sparks around it and if you should do this and get the valve
off the way I purge the tank was to fill it up with water all right first thing
I'm going to do is a row this ring on the bottom it's got some spot welds
three spot welds that hold it on and uh let's see here what I'm going to do is
cut on either side here with you I'm going to cut on either side of the spot
welds and then take my angle grinder and try to knock the welds off with my angle
grinder and smooth it out this is going to be
the bottom of the stove and I want this look really nice so I'm going to go to
greater lengths to make my weld a little nicer and to clean up spots like that
that I'm going to be cutting off yeah I'm gonna get started on that okay I was
able to uh cut through the welds with my little cutoff wheel that's on my
battery-powered Dewald a grinder I got it off and now I'm going to take my
anger my grinder with a grinding wheel on it and
I just touched these little spot welds up a little bit make a look a little
nicer
all right you get the idea okay I've got that all grounded down and I went ahead
and where the ring had touched the bottom of this there was some rust pits
so I went ahead and ground it where the ring was just to make it look a little
nicer and boy this is some thick paint on here so it must have been powder
coated I'm going to go back with white just because it's already white and it's
got a nice powdery coating over it all right my next what I'm going to do next
when it's uh I got a score aligned around or make a line around the top it
that's where I'm going to cut the top off I'm not going to be using this top
like I did in my free on bottle videos rocket stove videos I have a piece of
plate steel that I'm going to be using for the top of this so if this going to
be discarded I really have no use for it so that's my next video I'm going to
score a line all the way around this real even and cut it off I believe it's
not so thick that I can't cut it with my jigsaw if it is too thick then I'm going
to use my cutoff wheel because I need I really smooth but and a cutting torch
just would leave too much slack I am in the process of saving for a plasma
cutter and may when I get that that's going to open up a whole new world of
opportunity as far as cutting nice clean cuts and track your supplies got one for
800 bucks and I'm going to start saving so that's my next I'm going to make that
line and start cutting just want to show you the little jig I made let me uh yeah
let me bring this in a little bit
I mean I made that jig just so I can score a straight line around the upper
edge it's just some scrap lumber I had laying around and I'll show you what
I've got right there there we go just now I do need a little help I'm going to
get my wife out here and have her hold that jig real steady while I turned the
propane tank or maybe vice-versa so I'll hold the propane propane tank real
steady and turn that jig around it will see I just wanted to show you my little
homemade jig well it turns out I didn't need oh well I guess I did anyway I got
that flying mark I just stood the tank up on in there and drove that thing
around it I'm gonna get my cutter out so good that's a nice smooth cut and uh I'm
real glad I use that cut off will I don't think my juice I made this perfect
cut cut Carol uh Cindy in here it's got to be really easy well this is
a page that cut off pretty smooth all right now what I'm going to do I'm going
to work on the legs I'm going to do the bottom first get the bottom done with
the legs and then I'll stand it up and I'll get my top I got a piece of
plate steel over there that I'm going to be using either do the legs next I'll
show you what I'm doing I'm going to show you how I cut the angle on these
legs and I can't tell you what angle it is because I'm terrible at math and
that's a bit hard to admit but math is one of my weakest subjects and I don't
know angles and that kind of thing a lot of times I just eyeball things and this
is really embarrassing I don't even have a high school diploma and the only
reason I'm telling you this because I want if there's any kids that stumbled
across this I just want you to know what a disadvantage you're at not knowing
math math is one one of the things that you will use every single day of your
life and if you're thinking about dropping out or if you're doing terrible
in math do whatever it takes to understand math because not a day will
go by that you don't need to use math somehow in your daily life anyway let me
show you how I got this angle and what I'm doing to get the angle and all I did
was eyeball this hold on why won't you zoom there we go to begin with this
piece here is 16 inches long I marked the center bringing it a little more I
marked the center the 8 inch mark and this is one inch wide so I marked a half
inch to get the center of that and then I took my square
and I put the one-inch mark right on the center tick right there and I got the
2-inch mark on the end and of course zero would be right right here and
that's and I'm only doing this angle because just eyeballing it that looks
like about the angle I want I don't want a 45 so I'm going to start with that and
then when i weld it on when I get this welded on what I'll do is hold something
square against the base of the leg and make these flush with whatever you know
the table I'll be setting this off so that's my way around my weakness of math
all right I'm going to cut these and I'm going to weld them on and I'll show you
what that looks like okay I've got these uh four legs cut out
and what I'm going to do is measure the circumference of this divided by four
and that's how I'm going to figure out where to well my legs on I think I'm
going to cut my hole for the pipe on the side before you let me show you one
other dilemma that I have I have to make a decision see I've got to get the inner
pipe with a combustion chamber down in here and then out the side here hold on
hit the wrong button sorry Ron but again there we go
okay you know the the feed tube for the wood is going in the side and then the
combustion chamber will come up through the middle and be flush with the top
well I have a have to make a decision on whether I want to make