I used the drum out of our old washing machine. No cutting, no drilling necessary. Just build a brick pit, slot the drum in, and lift it out to clean. Perfect.

Use a carbide hole saw when you drill into stainless. Also, when drilling metal you want your drill spinning slowly but you want a lot of pressure. It allows the hole saw to cut chips out rather than burning a hole.

Learning from your design, I used the Mainstays Stainless Steel 8 Quart Multi-Cooker Stock pot with Lid from Walmart (cost $14.98). I only need to drill holes 2" from the bottom of the main pot, then put the steamer on top. With 6 cups of wood pellets, the fire was last for 1 hour.

The handles you took off the small pot would make a great pot stand!

For deburring the holes get a flap wheel instead of a hard stone disk. They're made from layers of sanding paper and work much better on ragged metal like you had from the step drill. Usually around $4 dollars at Harbor Freight or a Big Box store.

Great vid, very creative. Appreciate you showing all the impediments you encountered along the way and how you got around them.

I appreciate your way of disposing the debris, see a nice soul cares about environment.

We have something similar in our backyard, using the stainless steel drum from a washing machine. Works fantastic!

Knowing full well that you are very talented, i still would like to offer a couple of tips. When filing, especially a hard material like stainless, you only want to make forward strokes. Drawing a file backwards can flatten the grooves. Secondly…the next time you need to punch a big hole in metal like this, you may want to consider a knockout puller that makes holes for electrical fittings.

Excellent tip on the tinktube, been a contractor for over 30 years and have not seen this brand. I see a step-bit as a go-to as well, yours looks like a big box store or harbor freight one (same quality really). When I stepped up to a Milwauki step-bit it was a game changer.

Thank you, I'm watching from Papua New Guinea and I am very happy

9:13 With just the tools you had, I’d have used the hole saw bit to drill a hole in the middle of the wood (you used to punch a deeper divet with the screw) at the end. Being the the step bit was smaller, the wood would have made a surface to press against, stopping the pot from deflecting, leading to a cleaner (no punch out on the inside) and cooler cut. With the step bit having a surface to fight against, it would have cut away more material instead of heating it and pushing it inside. Just my 2c 😁 The design is quite nice, I really like it.

you can make mini versions of this with different size food cans. It's a great way to get the hang of the concept and all you need is some recycling, a hole punch and some tin snips, or a swiss army knife. Even ones made with standard food cans will throw out enough heat to cook for one person on, and only needs twigs or pinecones for fuel. That being said, now I have a place with a garden I would love to make one this kind of size for chilling around on summer evenings

I just use an old clothes washer tub as a smokeless fire pit. They have all the hole pre drilled burns smokeless and it is perfect size for camping. It sucks on air from the sides through all of the holes. You can see jets of flame form as it re burns the smoke vapors and burns clean after a few minutes.

That was a great build and it worked well.

Great build! For drilling holes in SS, use slower speeds & lots of pressure & cutting fluid. Also, they make a hole saw that has carbide teeth, there expensive but work amazing at going through SS!

I have a stainless steel washer drum… zero cost and works like a champ

Yeah man you were my hero putting granddad's oil on the jig saw cut line. As you've likely had commented, stainless likes it's loving slow. My dad and brother were installing security bars on gas pumps for a client. They went though so many drill bits. There were going through sheet stainless. Unfortunately they had a corded drill they used at twice the speed of light, I'd imagine. One day my brother said they had one pump to do but Dad was busy with all the tools. I worked alone with my own business. I said i could go by with my step bit and cordless DeWalt. My brother said he doubted the cordless could do it but we could see. On speed one my step bit crawled right through the sheet like it was nothing much to his but not my surprise! Yeah it takes some lessons but you'll learn slow gets you all you want from stainless with just one new bit and a little oil out of respect. Ha. Great job making you're own stuff! Feels good, doesn't it!?

Pretty neat, I might try this. Thanks

Really cool! Love how you try to be green where you can, as well.

The only thing I would add are lock washers on your nuts and bolts because I have made some things like this and the expanding and contracting from heating and cooling caused things to work loose and want to fall apart without constantly keeping things tightened until I added lock washers which stopped the problem for the most part. Otherwise double up your nuts and tighten them down on each other works good too

Thank you. That was awesome. I am going to make one. Thank you

Great stuff. Inspired me tremendously.

FYI No hi RPM’s with stainless… Toss the uni-bit. Use cutting oil and your hole saw. Pulse the drill on & off, go slow as not to heat up the stainless steel. It will go through like butter after a few slow turns.

Very cool project. I might try this one myself

Rev the drill when using a hole saw in SS. Don't aim for a high speed cut and use cutting fluid, it keeps the heat down and yr hole saw lasts longer 😁

Thanks, man. This will be my next father n' son project in the weekend.

Ooo! thats a nice looking burner you got there, nice one

Awesome build! Making one!!

Many thanks for going through the trouble to film your work, much appreciated and really grateful

Some great food is going to be cooked on that. And good stories and memories.

This is so cool. I will make similar one.

Awesome build! And I am only teasing when I say nice flip flops safety 3rd. Thanks for sharing.

It's time for me to buy the stuff to make this. Been wanting a smokeless fire pit for a while now. I'm fabricating meself one. Thanks!

GreenShortz DIY, while I don't give a damn about the environment I can definitely see that you know what you are doing. Changing to the Step Bit was the right call. Thank you for the video.

Cool piece of kit!

Great to see that more people care about recycling even of small amounts of metal. I thought I'm the only idiot who picks up every nail and put it in the metal recycling ;-) Many greetings from Germany

Great to see you back! Amazing what the right tools in the best shape can help you accomplish! This project is above my tools and skill limit, but I enjoyed watching. I figure, eventually, when I understand the concepts...then maybe I can build something of my own.

Brilliant !

It's a good idea. You did a great job.

This big version .. 🍺🍻great work.. love this ❤🙏👍

Really nice build and it looks like it works really well! Glad to see you back again too.

Great job! Thanks!

Spray the outside of one side of the pots with high temp flat black paint, and it will radiate out heat much better on that one side. The flat black (or other color) has less "emmissivity" so radiates much more heat where you might want it on a cold day. Rather than polished chrome color.

I knew someone would figure this out sooner or later

I'd use Greenlee hole punches for the holes. They are designed to make holes in electrical boxes and should be able to handle the job easily.

thanks for sharing the work. 😉💚💚

Harbor Freight sells a set of punch dies that would make short work of the holes.

Super cool! Well done!

I Love it... nice job

Great video.😊. Thanks

Always enjoy your videos thanks for all the good ideas❤.God bless you and yours

I'm gonna make one. Nice video.

That is a very nice cooker and nicely done

Too much hard work thanks for this video sir🎉🎉🎉🎉👍👍👍👍

Nice One i like building stoves myself too👍

I like the fact you use WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE TOOL SHED, AND SHOW USE YOUR MISTAKES….THATS COOL

Well done man! Love the legs. Really cool to see it work right off the bat!

Welcome back Tom. This was a nice video. Great way to repurpose scrap tinktube pieces into another project. Infinite adaptation. I’m sure you can find a circular wire grill to cover the opening. In future, when drilling into flexible metals, the wooden base is a better idea. Use the hole saw to drill a 1”+ hole in the 2x4. Place pot over the hole and allow the wood to support the sides while you perforate the metal. You need to add toes to your “Eyes and Ears” mantra. Just trying to keep you safe out there. Wishing you and your family another blessed week, gentle autumn weather and restful evenings. Peace brother

This is awesome, if I wasn’t so lazy I’d make one, but for now I’ll just buy one that is ready to go 😂❤

Great idea with green tips

Like it! Good job. Carbide bits and cutters are easier to use on stainless.

Amazing how Jurgen Klopp finds time for such trivia while competing in Premier league! Respect.

Excellent

So cool

I did something similar when making a rocket stove from a coffee tin. I printed out the pattern for the holes on sheets of paper pasted on to the surface of the tin as a template for perfectly spaced and even sized holes. I also had to punch a pilot dent with a nail and then drill successively larger holes. Since my surface was covered with holes, I had to support the inside with wooden 2x4's in order to stop bending and misshaping the stove. The correct way to punch those holes will be with a hydraulic punch but that was outside of my scope of operations. The alternative to your brackets would be to find any metal pipe that will fit snugly between the two chambers and cut that into 1½" segments riveted from the outside of the outer chamber on the bottom and sides of the outer chamber (3 on the side and 2 on the bottom) allowing the inner chamber to slide into place with a little play to allow for warping and expansion when hot. For a pot-stand I would take a standard diamond-shaped metal grid cut to size to cover the top and with L-brackets attached on the edges to stop it from sliding off. I would make second grid that will become greasy by placing meat and sausages directly on for grilling. If you cut thicker logs to less than 3" stumps you can get some coals going for even-burn cooking though charcoal will also work. You might want to experiment with a system where you can slide in a removable radiator of copper tubing between the two layers to create a hot-water system when camping. To set your stove on fire you might want to experiment with cotton balls covered in petroleum jelly (vaseline) where you can light the ball and drop it onto your tinder comprising of leaves, twigs and paper crumpled into balls. You can store fire-starter cotton balls in a jar that is stored inside of your stove when not in use. I have been regularly using that stove using ethanol-based gel-fuel (similar to Covid hand sanitiser) for the past fifteen years. The fuel is placed in an empty tuna can suspended on a wire platform about a third from the bottom of the tin. Alternate fuels I have experimented with where alcohol spirits and diesel or paraffin into a tuna tin filled with sand to regulate the burn.

Thank you so much sir.

Good project

I had make one it’s worked amazing. Great ideas. 👍❤️ Thanks mate! 🇦🇺

Good job !

Great job 👏

Thank you 😊

If you grab another pot drill holes in it. Then wrap it around the bottom air holes. Your stove will have an adjustable flame. A ring binder handle will help you move the flame adjuster around.

Genius!

Nice job!

Not sure if you know this but typically, when you cut or drill stainless steel you use water as a lubricant. The water absorbs and dissipates the heat and makes cutting or drilling easier and faster.

Perfect ...

Great idea! The company Dancook has even built a smoker with this principle of air supply. I have one of these and it doesn't use half the charcoal that it would otherwise. I think this oven would then have to be similarly economical. Greetings from good, old Germany 🙂

Please include green tips! Love them

Amazing

Great video!

Nice 🙂 (I finished watching).

I just saw this video that says clay can be made insulative by mixing in little grains of charcoal, the size of pebbles. When the clay is fired its charcoal burns up, leaving behind air gaps. About 30% of the mix should be charcoal, and another 30% ceramic powder.

I love your smokeless fire stove

i bout 16qt and 20qt for 49,90 this going to be amazing project!! thank you!!!

Actually, if you go to any used appliance or appliance repair place, you can buy a washing machine tub for almost nothing, and they work totally amazing👍👍👍👍👍

A DIY Smokeless Fire Pit From Cheap Stainless Steel Pots… love it!

I'm looking for something like this that will fit in the jeep when I go camping. Being able to have a small fire and cook on it is great!

Genius 👍👍👍👍

nice to meet you foot fingers 2:53 hahahaha

perfect

I’m IN! Thanks.🙏🏾

I like that it's so much smaller than the ones in the stores

I was thinking of a grill or pot standoff. I'm gonna try to get mine through second hand sources. I'm almost done with a smaller stove using cans.

Idea: Drill ventilation holes in the inner pot close to the bottom. Before cutting out the bottom from the outer pot - drill first many ventilation holes. Add 3-4 bolts as spacers. After use it as removable bottom in the inner pot to improve and even the supply of oxygen 8). Thank you. TY

Very creative, love the idea. I wonder if this could scale up using a stainless steel 50 gal drum

cool!

A slug cutter like electricians use for electrical enclosures would make a tidy job of the big holes in the inner pot

Chassis punch to create knockout holes nice n clean

good job 😎👌