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[Jbuck]

Knowing my lack of design and enginering abilty I was considering ordering one of the how to plans offerd on E-bay.  Has anyone seen these plans?  If they simply say build a firebox and put a water jacket around it with a few hand drawn diagrams I wouldn't be very interested, however, if they are detailed and step by step (ie. cut 2, 4x4, pieces of 1/4" plate then, ect.ect.) they would probally be a good investment for me.  Just wondering if anyone has done a homemade build from these plans or even seen them.  Thanks

[jackel440]

I would just call and ask if they come with a "cut list".That way you know that the prints would give you the info you need.Might also ask if each part has a detail print?
Plus you are at the right place for information.Just ask if you don't know.Only stupid question is the one not asked.Plenty of good people on here who can help you out.

[lawrencep]

if they are by deb they are step by step just alot of welding that is how i built by first one just a modified version

[AirForcePOL]

Lawrencep, I have considered plans from deb, were you satisfied with the stove you built? I also have came up with a few modifications if I went that route but it seems they give you mostly all the information you need. Was the cost close to what they said it would be?

[willieG]

i built my own 11 years ago, it is not a gasification model, i was lucky enough to get all my steel for very cheap and my elelctircal parts amounted to about 500 bucks  i think you should be able to get steel at (from a scrap yard) about double scrap price (lests say 40 cents a pound) you will be around 2000 pounds..so 400 oir 500 hundred for stell and the same for electrical...1000 bucks unless you are going gasification then just ask jackel he just finished his

[lawrencep]

It did its job well for 7 years till it sprung a big leak. The downfall of it is all the welds where as a round one has very few. It took me two weeks to build a round one and it took me 3 months to build the one from deb the price wasent even close on the deb one it cost me prob $4000.00 and my round one i am at $2000.00.

[Jbuck]

It did its job well for 7 years till it sprung a big leak. The downfall of it is all the welds where as a round one has very few. It took me two weeks to build a round one and it took me 3 months to build the one from deb the price wasent even close on the deb one it cost me prob $4000.00 and my round one i am at $2000.00.

I stopped at a Shaver dealership while traveling over the weekend, there was no one around the dealership but I looked one of their OWB's over.  it appeared they used a round piece of pipe (I would guess somewhere around 32 inch) then built a square water jacket around it.  Is this how you built your round one or did you go for a pipe in bigger pipe set up?  It appears the pipe in pipe would  be the easiest but there may be some reason I am unaware of you can't do that.

[lawrencep]

a 36 inside of a 48 round