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  1. 15th December 2014, 09:59 PM #141
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh View Post
    If I found a couple of 44's, reckon you could upscale it for Winter Wombat?
    I can get you a few 44's too
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    [Like it a lot.

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    Thread bump!!!

    I've had a windfall and procured a honest quantity of old truck brake drums.

    What would one do with such lumps of cast steel, you ask?
    An Aarken-Faarken, of course!

    The plan is to get the matching drum pairs, and join them end to end. Sizing pending, get some heavy pipe or rolled plate to space it out to a good combustion chamber size.
    Invert another drum brake and use the 80A plasma (oooh Baby!) to hack some legs into it - thinking 3 legs for stability on uneven ground.
    The drum brakes have the hub holes in them, so might fabricobble some kind of ash grate / airflow doo-hickey.
    If I can get around to it, I'll get some solid plate for a flat hotplate on top.
    I'll probably weld some kind of crude hinge on it, and hack out a door using the plasma to get the fuel in.
    Flue will come out the back.
    Not sure if I'll MIG it or stick. I do have some very nice NiFe cast iron rods to play with...

    By the time I'm done with it, it won't be very portable. Probably 80kg or so- 3 drums at about 25kg each plus other dead weight. But it will be a great project nevertheless!

    Hopefully it turns out something like this:


    Anyone else made one in this style? Most of the pics above are dead.



    Show us your... Aarken-Faarken!
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  4. 12th July 2017, 06:08 PM #144
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    I have one that's similar Mitch,,, they work well
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  5. 12th July 2017, 06:31 PM #145
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    Mitch, that centre section looks like an old, 10:00, split rim.
    If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
    http://www.aulro.com/afvb/signaturepics/sigpic20865_1.gif
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    I'll keep that in mind- the rim/brake relationship makes sense for the application. Although I don't think the donor of the brakes would give me wheels too. Hopefully it is a budget build!

    The pic is just for reference though- hopefully the one I build turns out to be 1/10 as nice as that one.
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  7. 12th July 2017, 06:58 PM #147
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    Not brake drums but quite a flash Arken****en none the less.

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    Ideas!!!






    These guys need an aarken-faarken medal!!! It's fed on waste oil, and is water cooled!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger View Post
    Ideas!!!






    These guys need an aarken-faarken medal!!! It's fed on waste oil, and is water cooled!
    ZD30 ??
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    I've got a pile of brake drums at home too - big bastards that weigh nearly 40Kg each - I can hardly lift them. They are big enough that 2 will make a large enough combustion chamber and a third as the base. Will only need to cut some plate for the top and make up something for the ash pan I think.

    Not sure when I'll get around to it though - I've got 6 drums all up, so I'll make 2 when I do it and flog one off to pay for the bits I have to buy.
    If you need to contact me please email homestarrunnerau@gmail.com - thanks - Gav.
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