Member Project: Rocket Stove
Made by: Joe Status: Finished Tools used: Horizontal bandsaw, angle grinder, MIG welder. A rocket stove is a stove that uses small diameter wood as fuel, and burns incredibly efficiently without smoke. Primarily used in India and Sub-Saharan Africa due to the reduction in wood required, they also make great stoves for camping, or for burning garden waste. My dad had some scrap steel tube, and as a gardener has an endless supply of twigs, sticks and small branches to get rid of. After trying previously to cut a right angle with an angle grinder, by hand (with predictable results…), we decided to do it properly and use the tools at the Makerspace. Scrap steel tube To start with we measured the length of the tube, and worked out how big we wanted our stove to be. For some reason there’s basically no information online on the proportions required for a rocket stove, so we went with a 600mm chimney and a 200mm horizontal piece, which left enough scrap material to make a smaller stove too. The next step was to turn the tube into a tube, as one end had an endcap welde