Heat in the workshop. Heaven!

by John

Today I fired up the pipe heater which I have welded up over the past few days.

Fantastic!!

I was so keen to get warm on this 10 degree celcius day, that I deferred water proofing the flue.

And of course it rained!

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I forgot to bring some newspaper or kindling, so I used a propane torch to get the wood burning.

Within 5 minutes the temperature of the burner was over 200c, and in an hour it was 350 degrees celcius/ 660 fahrenheit.  Heaven.

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The shape of the furnace accepts wood up to 1400mm long.   The handle at the bottom is the ash tray.  The hefty looking handle above is for the furnace door.   The bit of RHS on the floor is so I can open the door when it is hot.

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This is the external sheath of the flue.  The strip of corrugated iron is to separate the hot internal flue from the cooler external layer.

And then it rained!   And I had not installed the waterproofing fitting to the roof.   So water poured down onto the heater, and filled my workshop with steam.!!

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Despite today being only 10 deg celcius, I happily machined away until 6pm.  2 hours later than I usually stop due to the cold.

Then I had to go home to cook dinner.   SWMBO was getting hungry.