I've read up on it a bit, and there is a set of plans and instructions from FEMA, among other places.
http://www.windmeadow.com/files/fema_wood_gas_generator.pdf
here's a copy, and look at the rest of the site, as well, you might fine a whole lot of info you could use.
HTH!
Bill in OKC
--- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, Jim Ash <ashcan@...> wrote:
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> Cool site. In reading, it raises up an old interest in wood gas. This guy is using the gas to finish the process. I was interesting in routing the gas through an IC engine (maybe an old lawnmower engine to play with it). Apparently some folks did it in the WWII era to power their vehicles.
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> Once I had taken a quart-sized paint can, loaded it with old cedar-shake scraps, put a short length of copper tube through the top, and closed it up. I put the whole mess on my camp stove and started heating it. Before I got any gas out of the tube, it started bulging and popped open (which was my safety plan anyhow, to prevent creating a sheet-metal grenade). I'm not so sure one of the wood pieces hadn't laid across the tubing end inside and blocked it. I never pursued it beyond that (so far).
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> Has anybody here tried similar?
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> Jim Ash
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: noblelapidary
> Sent: Jun 23, 2011 10:00 AM
> To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [gingery_machines] Good plans for a charcoal maker & melting iron:
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> I've been wanting to make my own charcoal, I was getting ready to order a book before I found this:
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> http://www.twinoaksforge.com/BLADSMITHING/MAKING%20CHARCOAL.htm
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> Looks like a pretty good set up so ill probably be building it soon I have an ideal location for it. I live in the country so I can get away with this type stuff.
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> Also......do any of you guys melt iron also?? That's also something I want to do. Among 50 million other things lol.
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