Inspector Gadjet

Making bottle bricks for walls is free and fun! I get my young bloke to clean the cut bottles (with protective gear of course). I have yet another good friend (what would life be like without them?) who has saved dozens of light blue wine bottles for me and I mix n match these with green, clear, brown bottles to create different effects with the light shining through. cutting the 200mm sections on a wet tile saw (about $100) Glass jars are also great for bricks so don't throw them in the recycling bin, make bricks! Everything is easier with help.

Rocket mass heaters/stoves are incredibly fuel efficient in that they use very little wood and can store the heat for a long time. Insulating the burn chamber against heat loss is a key aspect of these simple heaters. I designed two chambers to go onto my brick Rocket mass heater, the first one is an oven and the second is a water heater. Luke the Welder Extraordinaire fabricating the oven  Not being good at welding, I enlisted the help of my Mate Luke to stitch the components together and as usual he did a fantastic job! Cheers Burundi. The finished oven ready for testing We recycled a couple of unwanted (empty) beer kegs for the oven and water heater along with some scrap stainless steel Luke and I had lying around. The oven part of this set up is basically two concentric cylinders with a hole top and bottom on the outside cylinder to act as a chimney and some flat steel welded on the outside like a big ring to stop any smoke etc from going into the inner ...