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here is the latest project. I wanted a wall tent stove but I just wasn't interested in spending $400.00 to have one. Making your own stove is one of those projects where you can actually save some money as well as have fun. This is a 20 Gallon pressure tank which is on the larger side for a wall tent. 12 or 15 is probably big enough for most tents. The first stove I made was from a Propane tank but using an air tank significantly reduces the risk of an explosion. The one thing to look out for in air tanks is that they often get condensation in the tank which can cause rust to form so real old tanks that are nearly rusted through may not be a good choice for making a stove. As many of you know I don't have a welder nor do I have a place to put one so I tend to make do without welding. In this case the ring where the stove pipe attaches will need to be welded but other than that it is weld free project. The tank cost me about $30 bucks from Craigslist. In my area I would regularly see folks selling broken air compressors for cheap. The legs and handles were made mostly out of scrap pieces of steel I had laying around but I think I spent another $25.00 on stainless steel bolts. I found the nested stove pipe on ebay some guy was dumping military pipe for next to nothing. I think I paid less than $25.00 for that to. Ironically I bought a section of stainless steel stove pipe that goes on the stove so it would be less likely to corrode than the standard steel and that was $30.00 so I have around $120.00 total in it. I still need to get a cap for the top but you can get those for under $10.00. You'll notice that the air compressor had wheels and steel feet in the front. Most folks cut that stuff off but since they were already there and welded on I figured I would just bolt the legs to them. I'm also going to leave the bench where the compressor was bolted on. It'll make a good shelf to sit my tea kettle and when packing the stove up it is a convenient handle. I'll be posting up a bunch of pictures that I took as I was building the unit.
Here are the before and after pictures.
Here are the before and after pictures.
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