How To Make A DIY Smokeless Fire Pit From Cheap Stainless Steel Pots
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- I make a DIY smokeless fire pit from cheap stainless steel pots I got at Walmart. I used a few modified tinktube brackets and nuts and bolts. Get 10% OFF your first tinktube order:
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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.
Sounds great! I'll have to try this. Thank you for watching.
This comment completely misses the size and portability of this project
@@mikesmith-bt6um It's an alternative.
@haraldtheyounger5504 not a small portable alternative....
@@mikesmith-bt6um And? Why the obsession?
Thank you, I'm watching from Papua New Guinea and I am very happy
Make sure any metal you use for fire pits or anything similar is NOT galvanized. That is use UNGALVANIZED metal only. When galvanized metal gets hot, it gives off toxic Zinc fumes.
why would cooking pots use galvanized metal? lol
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.
Thank for the tip! Thank you for watching.
How about a knockout punch? The kind used on electrical panels?
@Ashmeed Mohamed you would have to make sure they are stainless rated. Also, a knockout set like that is probably going to be around $1k and a lot slower than carbide hole saws. (I'm an electrician and have used both)
Absolutely correct 😊
Great ideas, the top leave a gap?
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.
Great vid, very creative. Appreciate you showing all the impediments you encountered along the way and how you got around them.
Harbor Freight sells a set of punch dies that would make short work of the holes.
The handles you took off the small pot would make a great pot stand!
That’s a good idea!
excellent idea
Im wondering why you didn't drill holes around the top rim of the inner pot. Fir the secondary burn ?
We have something similar in our backyard, using the stainless steel drum from a washing machine. Works fantastic!
Cool. Great idea! Thank you for watching.
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.
@jen1762 The cooker pot which I used has 2 pots and the small pot inside has a lot oh holes on it.
Did you have to make a steel wall to create a draft for the smoke less effect?
I think a steamer has most of the work done. But it can't easily make a draft.
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 for the feedback, John. I always appreciate hearing from the pros. Thank you for watching.
I appreciate your interest and desire to do things in a more "green" manner. I built a melting forge a few years back and followed the same principals. In doing so I found that the stainless pots at my local walmart were all made in china. Not exactly the greenest option available. Instead I scoured my local re-use centre until I found the sizes I needed. So instead of using dirty stainless steel made in china and then shipped all the way over here, burning oil the whole way, I used domestically made stainless that was easily 30 years old and had already served a long life before I gave it a second one. It's great to do something as simple as saving the aluminium shavings to properly recycle them but we can do even better by being more choosy about our initial starting materials.
Yeah, all the go green hypocrisy while using ALL Chinese products and tools killed me. The project was a cool idea that I've had for a long time. However, I'd execute it completely differently, this was done poorly.
Ummm the cell phone or computer you're using to watch this and type your comment used more oil and carbon than it did for him to get that pot lol
@Shadrach Ummm the cell phone or computer you're using to watch this and type your comment used more oil and carbon than it did for him to get that pot lol. Talk about hypocrisy 😒 🙄 😑
@@timsolomon8352 I'm not the one talking about recycling and going green. I'm literally talking about him talking about it. Are you dense?
Thanks for the feedback guys. Especially that I look for some old pots to make this project. I did go out and find some for my video today. Although, I think the one of the pots I found at Goodwill was never used, relatively new and I can't be sure where it was made. My initial video focused on the creation of a sustainable firepit, even though I did source materials from not the most sustainable source. I do agree that both parts of this process can be made sustainably, the creation and the sourcing. Thanks for your input on this. Thanks for watching.
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.
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 the tip. I'll check into that. Thank you for watching.
yes, those hole punches are awesome. the hole is very, very clean too
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’ve made a few gasifying stoves from the soup cans. I plan to make a regular rocket stove soon as well. Thank you for watching.
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 for the suggestions. Happy New Year!
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
Guten tag, mein freund. I do the same with the nails and bolts I find along the roadside. Lots of energy went into mining and refining. Much less needed to recycle it into something new. The small efforts add up. Thank you for watching.
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!?
It does feel good to make stuff! Thank you for the cool story. I learned a lot from the comments on this video. I’m still teachable. Lol. Thank you for watching and for the excellent feedback.
Thanks, man. This will be my next father n' son project in the weekend.
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.
Thanks, Luke. I appreciate the tips and feedback.
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!
Thanks for the tips! Thank you for watching.
Awesome build! And I am only teasing when I say nice flip flops safety 3rd. Thanks for sharing.
I have a stainless steel washer drum… zero cost and works like a champ
Really cool! Love how you try to be green where you can, as well.
Thank you. Little things can add up. Thanks for watching.
Do you think water could be heated up with this thru copper tubing inside or outside the burn chamber?
I think either would work. I think outside would be easier to set up. Inside would be more efficient. A coil on top might be even better, but if it ever lost water, could melt. An interesting idea. Thank you for watching.
For not using precise calculations, it turned out rather well This is going to be one of my next projects. Cheers!
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.
Thank you, Andy. I appreciate the knowledge. Thank you for watching.
Water instead of oil?
@@jereasons yeah. It was a trick I learned from an ol’timer metal worker/ machinist. He told me when cutting other types of steel you can use cutting oil or an emulsified coolant. (The coolant typically used with CRC machines.) for the record, I’m not an expert but have learned a lot over the years working in facilities maintenance. So hope this helps.
Maybe a small stream of water onto the work area? I foresee running out of hands for cutting/drilling/cooling/work-holding.
Use milk as a lubricant for drilling and drill slowly with pressure
For these sorts of burners (gasifiers) you should use the top down method of lighting them.
Thank you for the tip, Mark. A good reminder.
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.
Gary! Excellent suggestion. Thank you! I'm going to do this. Thank you for watching.
@@GreenShortzDIY make sure you get the right temperature high temp paint - maybe high temp engine paint. I got some high temp paint for the chrome top of my camper stove - couple of coats applied at proper temperature - bubbled bad on the first cooking cycle. For this you will likely need really high temp paint.
Many thanks for going through the trouble to film your work, much appreciated and really grateful
My pleasure! Thank you for watching.
Use tap magic cutting fluid it is used in industrial maintance, makes it so much easier
Thank for the tip! Thank you for watching.
i wish you put all part list in description of this video! thank you!
Sorry I hadn’t done that. I saw your other comment that said you picked up some pots, so it sounds like you figured it out. Good luck with your build.
Wow, nice fire stove , I need one like that
Thanks for watching. I hope you give it a try!
Thank you. That was awesome. I am going to make one. Thank you
Very creative, love the idea. I wonder if this could scale up using a stainless steel 50 gal drum
Hi Bjorn. I think this concept would work just as well at the 50-gallon drum size. You’d just need bigger logs. :-) I may have to try that. Thank you for watching.
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SS drums are expensive, but it would be nice if you could find cheap surplus ones. I saw a regular steel 55 gallon drum version that worked well but of course it's going to rust out pretty quick.
There is a vid on here of a guy doing that... watched it the other day!
The ones I've made, I've used as top down fires meaning, stacking/piling what you going to burn and lighting the top. if you light bottom and dump on top your going either have smoke or raging fire.
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’s brilliant. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for watching.
This is what I use as well , you can usually find a metal scrapper and buy a tub less than $20 from him , mine do seem to rust through after about a year but they are cheap
I get my washer tub from the side of the road , when people throw out old used appliances to the curb for someone else to take....fridge shelves make a great cooking grill , haul the scrap to the metal recycling place and they pay you for it💲💲 double win 👍 👍 🇨🇦
Throw an old dryer drum around the washer drum. Dryer has the holes in the bottom and generates a vacuum.
Thank you for sharing. It looks good. The solo stove has holes at the top for a secondary burn. May I ask why you chose not to add the holes at the top?
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.
Good luck with your build. Thank you for watching.
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.
Thanks for the feedback and for watching.
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!
I think you go go down in size on this as well, if you needed to. Thank you for watching.
Use the bottom cutout to make a suspended grill top. Could even perforate it.
Oval vertical holes for the screws through outer pot would make ratio adjustable
Great suggestion. Thank you. Thank you for watching.
I wonder if you make ice in the pots that you want to drill- adds stability and cooling.
An interesting idea. I bet it would work. Thank you for sharing.
This type of vessel is great for getting a fire burning, but I’ve wondered if it really does provide much warmth for cold weather camping and such. You’re is shorts and t-shirt in this video, so what do you think? Can you determine whether it’s enough of a heat source for cold weather?
That is an excellent question. I will say that it does radiate heat fairly well, but again that’s in shorts weather. I’d estimate that a good bit more heat goes up instead of out due to the airflow, which is key to this design. To make it more radiant, I think I’d need to add more mass to sink some heat into. That is an interesting design challenge. You’ve got me thinking. Stay tuned. :-)
@@GreenShortzDIY I definitely will. I’m excited to see what you come up with for us.
Could I use a 20 quart pan with a 16 quart iner pan will this be enough air between pans ?
Hi Dan. I can’t do the math in my head, but I think that should work. :-) I think the smaller the gap the better. The airflow gets hotter and moves faster. I’m still learning about this method myself. Good luck with your build.
I just wanted a little bigger one but will the bracket fit in this too.?
@@danfredrickson5319 I’m not sure about the tinktube brackets fitting. You can always use a standard L bracket from Home Depot.
Well done man! Love the legs. Really cool to see it work right off the bat!
Ooo! thats a nice looking burner you got there, nice one
As others have stated, drill slow with lots of pressure for metals. Those step bits are incredible for debuting holes. Drill your hole then hit it from the back with the step bit.
Thank you. I was the opposite of slow. :-) Thank you for watching.
I've heard when drilling hollow containers you can fill them with wet sand i think the holes stay clean
Thanks for the tip. Thank you for watching.
Maybe a cone type chimney baking the top about half the size would create more draw from the bottom, and would ignite the gasses more and be much more efficient.
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!
Good luck with your build. Thank you for watching.
I already have a 12-quart stock pots. Do you think can use that with a 16 Qt? Or maybe an 8 qt?
Hi Phil. I think going to a 16 quart outside your 12 would be the better option. Thank you for watching.
I'm thinking the grill of a small Weber portable BBQ or similar would fit on top. Placing 3 legs down around pot will stabilize grill.
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 for the tip! I appreciate the feedback!
Thought on drilling the holes... Fill with water and freeze to give support for drilling.
Thank you for the tip. Thank you for watching.
Another thought...reattaching handles to bottom sides of lge pot makes for conv carring when cool....
use a small drill bit for the pilot hole from the outter wall and then use the step bit from the inside and drill out so that the blow out will be inbetween the two pot walls
Great suggestion. Thank you. Thank you for watching.
I like the fact you use WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE TOOL SHED, AND SHOW USE YOUR MISTAKES….THATS COOL
Thank you, Herman. Mistakes are important learning opportunities too. I hope to help others avoid them. Thank you for watching.
Would be cool if you put a raised grate over the top you could use to cook on.
Agreed! And I actually did that. First a pot rack to boil water. Then I modified that to add a heat sink grill. There are videos of both. They should be in the playlist. Thank you for watching.
Your design and detail is wonderful. The tools and the approach to using them is wonderful also. Now with all the video you are presenting like most people can make this item. I think most people will not be in a position to make one of these. So taht gets me to this question. Where can I purchase one please tell me>>>>>
Always enjoy your videos thanks for all the good ideas❤.God bless you and yours
You are so welcome. Thank you for watching.
Great tutorial/DIY experiment! I appreciate you learning as you go and showing us the little things. Now what brings me here is I've missed having a fire pit for years, but I have two steel containers with handles from Home Depot about 3' diameter at the opening that narrows maybe 10 degrees slope. I bought them ~6 years ago to try growing some peppers in a semi-mobile container, but I didn't have success with the one I tested as a planter, so I'm hoping to combine the two into a DIY smokeless socializing fire setup outside my apartment.
As far as the physics goes, is the upper lip that bends inward and overlaps the inner diameter barrel crucial to the formula?
For cleaning up the inside cut on the burnbarrel, I'd just use a flap disc in my grinder.
Try Pittsburg knockout set at harbor freight. Two piece from 1/2" up to 1 1/4". Drill hole. One part on outside one on inside. Tighten with supplied bolt. It cuts through better than a hole saw.
Cool! I'll take a look. Thank you.
Hello my friend. What is the brand of that gas fire starter you are using? Does it function well upside down? Thanks in advance for answer and take care.
I us a Blue Fire torch on a one gallon propane canister. Works great upside down. Here's an Amazon link, if you have access to it. amzn.to/3YGiTKJ Thank you for watching.
Chassis punch to create knockout holes nice n clean
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 😂❤
A slug cutter like electricians use for electrical enclosures would make a tidy job of the big holes in the inner pot
La orana. Will use this in my video today. Thank you for watching.
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.
More power to ya! Thank you for watching. :-)
I made a burn pit 20 inch X 20 inch .
Out of a SS washing machine tub.
Kind of smokeless, used it two times. It's shiny stainless but has turned a golden anodised brown color due to the heat.
It was free. Pre drilled. It is lightweight. And I'm adding a drop-in round grate ( cast iron) to act as an ash tray
@@missingremote4388 That really sounds great! This truly expands my thoughts about how I can have a safe and useful place outdoors to burn and cook and such. Thanks for your comment. I'm going to explore what kinds of material I have around that could serve this purpose.
@@missingremote4388 Quick question: do you use this above ground, or is it pitted into the ground? Some people use the turn burn "pit" to refer to above ground units.
@RL M it is above ground. Totally unmodified. Straight out of my own washing machine . Ex-wash machine.
I WILL make you a youtube video / after I get my 'drop-in Grate' . I do make videos on youtube.. but it's been 2 years or more since I posted one. Thanks
Can we make a hole at bottom to get ash disgarded automatically. If we put the fire for long time the ash may cover the inlet holes. Eventually blocking the air. Any solution to that?
You can put holes in the bottom if you don’t mind the ash dropping out where you’re using the stove. I usually empty my stove after each burn once the ash has cooled. I’ll put the ash in a garden or flower bed or mulch pile.
That is a very nice cooker and nicely done
This big version .. 🍺🍻great work.. love this ❤🙏👍
Thank you for watching, Nikko. 😀😀😀
@@GreenShortzDIY my pleasure 🙏🙏❤
As stated below a carbide hole cutter is the way to go. I use Greenlee.
Hello and Greetings from Sweden!
Thank you for a great video! I would like to make something similar, but in a much larger scale, like with a 208 liter drum or something. Do you know what dimensions to use in such a project please? (it is of course ok not to know).
Also, if one use a 208 liter drum for the outer casing, do you have any suggestions as of what to use for the inner casing please? Do you think one could use an old propane tank, like a P45 cut to the right measures? This would be much smaller in diameter, though.
Keep up the good work 🥰
Here in the US, we have 50 gallon drums, but also 40 and 30 gallons as well. One of those ought to nest inside the 50. I’m sure you’ll find similar options in metric sizes. I think a 5 to 8 cm air space between the two would work nicely.
Thanks for watching.
@@GreenShortzDIY Yes! Thank you for your reply! Will check this out. Thanks!!!
This is amazing!
Can i use it indoors?
Not for indoor use. Thank you for watching.
That's a very nice looking fire, and very neat job. I want to ask something if I may, if you put some sort of pan or wok holder on the top and use it like a stove, will it disrupt the airflow and making the fire smoke?
I have made quite a few gasifier camp stoves in the past, just not quite as big. From my experience putting a pot holder does restrict airflow a bit depending on how high it is. I'm guessing maybe 1 FT. above the above the top of the stove would be ok . It will probably still smoke a bit but would probably still work.
@@thewoodlandforge9217 that's very helpful, thank you so much
ISN'T THAT THE SAME AS A ROCKET STOVE? YOU DID A GREAT JOB. WOULD YOU MAKE ME ONE? THANKS
I knew someone would figure this out sooner or later
Thank you for watching. This still needs some tweaking, but I’m happy with the performance.
I like that it's so much smaller than the ones in the stores
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.
Great explanation and tips. Thank you, Casper.
We don't have Walmart here... can you give the size of the pots so that we can source them elsewhere, please?
Cheers
Yooo! He said on the beginning-
1 - 8 quart pot
1 - 16 quart pot
1 Liter n 2 liters for UK
Hi Mike. You can work with any size. You'll just one pot that fits inside another. The more narrow the gap between the two, the better.
Surprisingly, or maybe not, an impact driver will do a better job with hole bits and step bits that catch. Save your wrist too.
Stepbit quality varies dramatically. Use cheap bits for plastics and wood only. It will cost 2 to 3 times more for a stepbit that will handle steel well.
Thank you for the feedback.
Super cool! Well done!
Thank you. Thank you for watching.
Some great food is going to be cooked on that. And good stories and memories.
You got that right! Thank you for watching.
A smaller pilot hole and an electrician's Greenlee punch set for the big holes. But that would cost more than a prefab smokeless fire pit.
Yeah. I priced some punch sets. Not cheap. :-)
Can you use this in closed environment??
It should not be used indoors. Thank you for watching.
Very cool project. I might try this one myself
Go for it! Thank you for watching.
will that still works witth wet leaves? no smoke?
No. Wet leaves will smoke.
Great stuff. Inspired me tremendously.
Can't help but wonder why you drew around card to cut that shape out and then drew around the cardboard. Why not just draw around the bucket directly on the pan?
Ha! I don’t remember why, but perhaps I wanted a better look at the spacing. Thank you for watching.
I looked on Tinktube's web sight and did not find the connectors you used for connecting the legs to the pot.
What are they called and where can I find them?
John
Hi John, It is the "Y Pipe Rest" in Accessories. Here's a link. tinktube.com/shop/as-rest/ I modified it, of course, to flatten the short side of the Y to hold the inner pot. Good luck with your build. Thank you for watching.
When I bend my stainless steel spoons forks etc I heat in boiling water.. makes it bens easy .. maybe get pot hot to make softer?? Just throwing that out there 😊
Thanks for the tip. Thank you for watching.
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.
Great tips. Thanks, Steve. Thank you for watching.
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.
Thank you for the suggestion. Thank you for watching.
What about diameter of holes and numbers of holes and proportion of primary to secondary air to optimise
I’ve made burn barrels. Tryyto be thrifty using harbor freight step bit’s also, bought Brand name bit much much easier. Irwin brand middle of the road price, surprised how long it lasted. Love the videos ! Thanks
FYI if you over heat stainless it hardens so allow is the go
Please include green tips! Love them
I can’t help myself. :-)
Like it!
Good job.
Carbide bits and cutters are easier to use on stainless.
Thank you for the tips. Thanks for watching.
I use these Walmart stock pots to make some other projects but they are very thin and they do rust.
I’ve seen the same. Definitely a lower grade stainless. But, functional just the same. Thank you for sharing your experience.