One minute we're precisely facing off some tubing on the lathe, and the next moment we're watching the drill press walk across the workbench. Bless your maker spirit.

Was waiting for a "Thankyou for your service ". Every Bonds singlet, sock or Stubbys shorts gets the same eulogy. Faithful service earns respect. Just sayin. Cheers from North Queensland 🌴

Man you are a craftsman! I love you watching these fabrication videos! Your video editing is as good as your fab skills! So good mate! This comes from a fellow metal worker and purchaser of 3 of your stoves in the past!

Oh - and your rivet edits are awesome

Can't wait to see the results on this one! It looks like an absolute winner. Would absolutely buy the plans for it.

I think instead of insulation around the burn chamber I'd put sand, make it a thermal battery with the ability to recover the heat with a liquid, that would certainly allow heating all the way around the water jacket.

it's nice to watch your work

Top man. Beautiful stove. I'm reassured it's not the military version. Thank you so much.

Tiggin is my favorite way ta weld. Clean and beautiful beads.

Great job!! i love watching your work process. Nice rocket ! i need one and i cant wait for the results. Greetings from ARgentina.

Wow, another amazing build! I think my home definitely needs a water heater like this. 🤩

Looking forward to it.

You can tell this guy really works in a shop ! Safety glasses on top of his head and not over his eyes !

5:04 Ah Mozart's Requiem, great taste.

I need to fire up my TIG welder and do something.

Another great build! If only i was just a tad closer I'd come over for a coffee and look at all your project! Cheers!!

you are awesome

Looking at those plans, we used to have a glass one in a mates shed back in the day.. someone would use it as a microphone for a while, and the water would get hot.. seems to be a tried and tested design 😂

Great work, well done

Should use plenty of water to cool down your holesaw.Work's better and last's longer.

Is it weird to like watching someone weld? Great build, can't wait to purchase one of your rocket stoves.

That is a seriously awesome build, would you consider making a smaller one for camping to use for hot showers?

Nice build, looking forward to the test!

as well as sugesting the Cleco fastners to help with assembly as Jim posted, use an electric soldering iron to trim the larger plastic film from the sheetmetal, it cuts (ments) the film without marking the surface of the metal.

Great job again always nice too see your videos 👌🏻👊🏻

Your TIG welding looks so easy to get such a good looking welds, I have had a chance to try out TIG welding for a bit, but only on too thin crappy steel so I haven't had much of a success in that, can handle MIG though. 👏

Looks awesome

Now Mr Aussie Rocket Man you have a beautiful build with a snazzy maker badge showing the outline of our sunburnt land (Tasmania excepted as usual, i.e., present, but no sunburn), and it's fixed with six rivets, not the seven points of the Federation Star. Not a big thing but it's there to be had and some of us will notice. 😉 It's been fun to watch this design mature - well done.

Gasification wood boilers use a Turbulator to chop up and slow down the flu gasses and help transfer heat to the water. You may consider trying that to see if it helps your heat exchange. Great stuff!

Love your work bloke, go queenslander

Love these builds mate keep it up!

Very good Sean in Ireland

Did I hear you say "Like a bought one"? Not kidding, that was a saying of my brother's back in the early 70s, and it caught on a bit when he was working on a dairy farm at Rosevale (we were at Rosewood, ourselves). Now, for completeness, I need to hear that it's "properly flash".

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Hi there, A aussie Rocket Sauna Stove would be awesome!!!

Have you thought about using heatsink walls for the flue to increase thermal transfer to water?

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Gotta love your references to early 2000's ads mate! I watched the video of this beast heating water, is there a way to have a bigger fuel hopper without compromising the efficiency/operation? I'm thinking fill it once to get it up to temp instead of coming back and restocking it.

You should put the plans of this rocket stove water heater online. Open source it or sell it. I would buy!

Brilliant, keep it up

awesome :)

I would certainly join your patreon page

Interesting video Steve! Bit alarmed that you didn't have your drill press fixed down, even temporarily. Amazed by the size of your sheet metal folder. How big is it and how long have you had it? Sorry to see the passing of your air riveter. You should have sounded Last Post as you delivered it to the scrap bin. 😂 I used to do that for mice killed in the workshop. Sound Last Post and do the Funeral March with feet gliding across the floor! 😂 It used to piss the old PIA Electrician off no end! 😂😂😂 That was half of the point! 😊 I was watching this build and pondering just how much it was costing, so your decision to start a Patreon account was no real surprise. I will see what I can do, however I am currently very busy shovelling as much coin into Super as possible. I turned 59 last month and the Finish Line is rapidly approaching. I know that you both have many calls on your $$$, but if you can put some extra money into your Super now it will have a far greater effect than if you hold off until later. Watching how much gets taken out in fees is also important. It all has to do with Compound Interest. The longer that it has to work, the greater the return. Get yourself a Compound Interest Calculator from the App Store and have a play around with some of the variables to see what I mean. Sorry to preach, but learning about Compound Interest is like the Eighth Wonder of the World. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

Can you make it a pallet feed? Please

Cleco fasteners may be of interest to you btw.

13:45 FYI, a bath in citric acid with some current applied will passivate your stainless welds to further assist with oxidation resilience.

Why not fill it with sand? Then it will act as a sand battery, Then you achieve the draw aspect and residual heat for the water part.

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Once you get the design 100% then I'm sure there is a market in Aussie from those in the bush who aim to live self sufficently. I guess it would need it's own independent fireproof shed (maybe out of concrete block) next to a house, any thoughts?

wouldnt sand be a quick insulation, no fibers, and easy to remove if needed. fits neatly in the empty space too. it would be heat accumulation medium too. a-men.

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Can I suggest that in colder climates the heat loss through the walls of the flue heat shield might negate any gains, Still a good idea to convert into what is basically an oven but like an oven will need an insulation layer fitted inside or outside to retain heat. Obviously the temperature of the oven will be dictated to some extent by the flow rate of the water and whether it is a closed or open system. Would it be possible to insulate all but the last two inches of the flue? ie those top few inches separately from the lower water heating section, this might help keep the flue pull going if heating water in an open system

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how about filling the space around riser and heat exchanger with sand? it would probably work better in long burns

Those holes were just as painful to watch as well lol

RIP rivet gun.

Is she still wearing that old shirt! I guess she has to so that you can buy full lengths of 100x100 S/S RHS ! lol. I have you on speed +1.5 and the music's jiggy. you are wearing out sanding disks 1.5 x faster tho

So if you’re testing water tightness, is there a reason you didn’t use the air compressor and water with detergent method? Wouldnt testing under pressure be more accurate?

ohhh I was wondering if I could find an attachment to use that little ferrex cutoff tool as a sander - can you share what you bought? I assumed one of the kits at bunnings or total tools would work but haven't checked.

Please insulate the firebox and riser - without insulation these fantastic stoves are not reaching their full potential.

Fill it with sand instead? Would work as a heat battery?

Might consider adding a magnesium or zinc sacrificial anode into the water heating area where galvanic oxidization will be accelerated....because the lesser noble metals electrons will tend to migrate toward the stainless steel. One idea is to weld a inspection cap to your water heating chamber where a replaceable HWS anode can be inserted - make sure this is electrically isolated from the metals. This might be helpful too kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bcqmnK960Ze-j2g.html

be careful of x-rays from welding arc