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[rosewood]

New mod what are you planning for exhaust? I have a 8 ft chimney,5 ft are in water and firebox,2/3 into firebox .  There is a lot heat to capture here,also with stack 2/3 in fire it helps "I believe" to get to gassifier stage.

[R W Ohio]

Todd,
I can not get the pictures either. But I hope that the build is coming along as you had hoped.Winter is soon to be apon us.
Ron

[newmod]

hmmm.  It wont work for me either.  Well I will have to have the wife help me resize pics so i can load them.  The water jacket is all welded,  the firr box is almost done.  We welded five 2 inch cross tubes in for better heat transfer and a baffle towards the back of the box.  All in all it is going very well.  Hopefully most all construction will be done this weekend.  Still taking pics so I can get them loaded.
     For the exhaust, we ran 6 inch pipe out the back and i have a triple wall TEE and a couple sections of triple wall pipe that we are going to hook in. 
     I found 120 ft of 1 inch Thermopex online for a good deal.  Can I use the normal 1 inch pex crimp rings on that, and to hook it into my 1 inch pex in the house. 
newmod

[newmod]

Got firebox welded into the water jacket last night.  Everything is turning out great.  If I didnt have this car lift in my garage, this job would not be fun at all.  We hope to have everything up and running by the end of October.  I am confident that we wont have any leaks.  I HOPE !

Newmod

[newmod]

try this one.   CLICK VIEW SLIDESHOW

http://s1188.photobucket.com/albums/z416/newmod/

[jackel440]

Looks good.
I just want to know how you plan to get rid of your ash?I didnt really see how you plan to get it out of the bottom from under your cross tubes.

[newmod]

Jackel,   The cross tubes are actually on top top collect heat in the firebox.  We just had it upside down for welding purpose

[jackel440]

ok I see.I have seen stoves built with the same tubes in the bottom.I just didn't see that it was upside down.
Looks good though.Keep it up!

[newmod]

What Aquastat should I use.  I have researched a few but not sure what to get.  It will need to operate the draft door and possibly inductor fan. 
Newmod

[Bull]

I use a ranco controls ETC 111000, easy to program and works great.

[jackel440]

Ranco seem to be great units.You can also find Johnson units that do the same thing.pick up a grainger book and start reading through it.

[newmod]

If using the RANCO control, do I have to purchase a (well ) for it, so it is actually submursed in the water?  Not really sure how the aquastats get mounted.  Thanks

[rosewood]

you'll have to weld in a bung ,not sure of the ranco's,honeywells are 1/2'' ..i think.

[peacmar]

My personal preference is the ranco if all your using it for is a thermostat. Otherwise a good PID and thermocouple can be picked up for about the same price is you want other controls such as low water temp shut down of the fan so it don't keep cooling your water should your fire ever run out. You can mount it in a well or if you insulate it well enough it can go on the water feed pipe between the boiler and the pump. If your good at sweating copper pipe you can make your own well for a few bucks by drilling out a brass end plug just big enough to slit in a short stub of 1/2"copper pipe and capping the other end and silver soldering it all up. Fill it with a bunch of heat sink compound from an electronics store and its super accurate. I was able to put it all together for mine for about $10, beats paying $30 plus shipping for the purpose built ones and I had 4 feet of extra tube to use for the drain and overflow vent also.

[newmod]

pics of OWB added to album

http://s1188.photobucket.com/albums/z416/newmod/