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[John D]

Great work! I just went thru all 9 pages....you sure do nice work...Id kill to have your garage......I cant wiat to see how it turns out and performs....only thing in your whole setup Im not liking is your pex tubing.....I hope the ground your putting it in is dry......and high above the water table....and you should be fine.

[tulenutn2o]

Great work! I just went thru all 9 pages....you sure do nice work...Id kill to have your garage......I cant wiat to see how it turns out and performs....only thing in your whole setup Im not liking is your pex tubing.....I hope the ground your putting it in is dry......and high above the water table....and you should be fine.

I don't understand the dislike of PEX.

[jackel440]

Great work! I just went thru all 9 pages....you sure do nice work...Id kill to have your garage......I cant wiat to see how it turns out and performs....only thing in your whole setup Im not liking is your pex tubing.....I hope the ground your putting it in is dry......and high above the water table....and you should be fine.
Thanks for taking the time to look through the progress of my boiler.I didn't want to use this style of pipe either,but due to finances and time this was what I could come up with for now.This is actually just laying on the ground for for this year.It won't get buried until late spring.This tile is actually thicker than the standard pipe you would get at menards or lowes.

I don't understand the dislike of PEX.
It's not the PEX he dislikes it is the Pex in what looks to be water tile pipe.

Thanks for taking the time to look through the pages of my project.

[jackel440]

Well I spent another night mounting a box and more conduit for the stack light I will have on the stove.cut down my pipe for the light ,and came up with an adjustable mount for it.Ran seal tite down to the panel box for the wires.Spent the rest of the night terminating more wires.It is amazing how complicated this wiring is for all the different things I am doing with it.I will have to get a shot of the inside of the panel when it is all done.
And as always here is a few pics of progress......
 

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[bikeralan]

Lookin good! devil is in the details, you are doing an excellent job!
Back to work yet?

[jackel440]

yeap back ,to work.Leaving right now.Heard ,we might be off for 2 more weeks again here soon.catch ya guys later tonight

[jackel440]

I had a productive evening tonight.I managed to design and build a defelector to help smoothly turn the burnt gases from the upper tunnels to the lower tunnels.I had to align a tube to match the sight glass pipe on the door.I then welded up the pieces and then insulated with K-wool.I also just tacked the back on so If for some reason I need to reinsulate in the future I can pop the back off.
 

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[jackel440]

Here is a shot of the deflector installed behind the door.I think this should really help get the exhuast gasses to flow nicely through the furnace.
 

[jackel440]

Got to love Indiana.Had a nice little earthquake this morning.Wife txts me about it ,and I said what are you talking about.LOL I was running a crane today and didnt even feel it.
Anyways I got the rear deflector made and insulated then installed it.Then I put a handle on it so it would be easy to remove so I can clean the lower chambers.
 

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[jackel440]

Here we have the rear deflector installed.Then a shot of the rope seal on the frame,and then the rear door installed.
 

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[jackel440]

Next we moved onto getting the fron twall steel installed.Well atleast the first piece anyways.I placed some fiberglass insulation inbetween the steel girts.
I got all the holes layed out ,and then cut them out with my Metabo slicer.After doing some fine tuning with it I then screwed it onto the frame.
After the sheet was on I started putting the doors back on.I threw a shot of the rtv in the slot before I put in the rope seal in the door channels.
 

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[jackel440]

And finally her is a pic of the door with the rope seal installed.Fit was excellent.
Last but not least is a shot of the doors on ,and the temp guage back on.
Hopefully tomorrow I can finnish the 2 air tubes inside the burn chamber ,and then work on the rest of the wall steel.
 

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[jackel440]

Ok managed to get the airtube fore the wood chamber fabricated.I then made a bracket so it can be easily removed for any reason,and also lock it in to place.
Then I started on the gas chamber air tube.I made an inverted "Y" to help make the flow of air in the back chamber go to each side.Instead of the air just going straight down and then hitting the bottom fire brick.
 

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[jackel440]

First pic is of the lower part of the tube going through the steel floor and into the gas chamber.It shows the air divertor in the end of the pipe.
Then the second and third pic is of the upper end of the tube were I made an adapter to go into the air tube coming from the air box.
 

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[jackel440]

Alright I finnished up the gas chamber air tube.Got all the pieces together and then welded up.I know I am sick and tired of climbing in and out of that dang burn chamber!
I then climbed in one last time ,and welded a stud in the back to hold the tube in tight.Came out real nice!
 

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