Good morning Mossberg Owners. It’s shaping up to be cool and slightly overcast but no more rain is predicted for the week.
Well the boatyard all dried out (!) due to a breeze, so I hung more curtains and I welded up the experimental rocket stove.
I also made this shaker grate and an air door/cleanout.
USAF gray 14ga sheet, collected in 1973, Hill Field, Utah. Cut with sawzall, bent to a channel, and notched with a grinder. Crude, but ok for stove duty.
Yesterday eve I did the first test burn out in the WSM.
Fire over the grate!
The “extra air” door and cleanout port, came from scraps of Dad’s lawn tractor.
It is pretty smokeless once operating.
Boiling my sooty old teapot.
I did not get the soup can on the platten hot enough to boil. It all sheds too much heat, but it’s not smoking.
I had stripped a lot of paint off with the wire wheel before I welded this together; but there is still a lot of factory paint left, and I never did get the stove hot enough to burn it all off.
Today I will get back on welding the SS100 chassis. I’m not going to start digging in the garden quite yet. In fact, I am avoiding it and may hire the digging out to a handyman.
You folks have a nice day and avoid shovels whenever possible!