I saw myself in a video I did yesterday and I was thinking dear god I've gotten
so fat but this is 40 pounds less than I was a year ago and I'm working really
hard to keep losing so some day I hope to be around the 200 mark
okay here's what I've got we got a new fan it was 18 bucks at RadioShack and
I've seen him online for six or seven bucks I hated spending that much but I
need to do this now I got the fan I have a rheostat or a potentiometer a linear
wrist at linear potentiometer and I've kind of got it I think I know how to
wire it the center terminal goes to the fan and you take a wire from the battery
and put it either on this side or this side depending on which way you want to
turn this to increase or decrease speed if you want to increase speed by turning
it clockwise you would put the battery lead here on the first one if you wanted
to decrease the speed by turning it clockwise you would put the battery lead
here so I've got to find some kind of box to put this in and I'm gonna have
wires running into the box and then out of the box to the battery and to the fan
and I have that I'm gonna leave that on there this and I had this flexible pipe
that I'm probably just gonna it's gonna look like hell but it's gonna work I'm
just gonna clamp it down real tight around this and I'm gonna give this
about a OH about a foot of space because I believe
this fan here burned out from vehicle too close to the heat so I'm gonna move
it out about a foot and that should be far enough all right oh yeah and I've
got the most important ingredient of glass of sweet tea let's get started
yeah it's not pretty but it's functional just like me what it is is just
a reducer stovepipe reducer that that stuff there just I could not make it
work it's just too flimsy to handle it hard enough to mould it around this I
this was round of course and I turned it into a square and and this just fit in
there there's a little bit of gap around here I filled it up with some
high-temperature sealant and I'm testing the rheostat and it works and I'm going
to show you I'm gonna see if I can set this camera down somewhere and let you
listen to the speed of the fan let me turn this around and here we go
here's the rheostat
when I do this where I can there we go oh well it works you get the idea and I
want to get all this solder together I got I got an Altoid box in the house I'm
gonna dump the all toys off out of it and put this in it
I run the wires in it I'll show you that in a minute right this is what I got
this is all toys box painted black and here's the two wires coming from the fan
one wire comes into the box goes directly to the negative terminal with
alligator clip the hot wire comes in from the battery into the box to the
on/off switch from the on/off switch over to the center pole on the rheostat
from the rheostat power out to the fan so before i heat up all my shrink tube
and tighten this up let's just see if it works
okay I'm gonna box this up make sure it's all buttoned up real nice heat up
my shrink tube and put everything in there real nice and neat and light a
fire see if we got okay last I got it all buttoned up and all the shrink tube
together in the Box back together so here it is one last time
okay let's crank it up it is gasifying now
can you see the gas coming out the holes and reigniting I gotta let this burn
down a little bit I want to stoke it back up with some
thick oak I'm gonna let that burn just a little bit and then I'm gonna put that
can of water on there and we'll give it a ball test see how long it it takes the
ball the other one bowled the quart of water and nine and a half minutes so in
about five more minutes I'll put this on alright I got the fan off for just a
second while I put this water on there
okay
no way three minutes and it's boiling oh my god that's just incredible quart of
water boiling less than 30 minutes because it took me a second to get this
camera on that I was really surprised who started boiling unbelievable okay
this was a success and I've got this fan turned on low so when I turn it up on
high I can make horseshoes or a wagon wheel space-shuttle if I had enough
coals all right thanks for watching okay I couldn't shut it off without showing
you a couple more shots of the gasification taking place now I've got
the fan on high
all right it's been fun I'm gonna let this die down and put the video up