Thread: Camp stove conversion from LPG tank

Originally Posted by dobbo

Khos


how about building a spit from a horizontal 100l LPG tank?

That definitely be done matt,cut the 100l bottle right down the middle section,you have two equal halves , similar to this one perhaps?

there is a little more work to it , but doable.

Originally Posted by Disco_owner

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He's my twin brother


Is it just me or does the thought of piggy on a spit get everybody all excited?

just you

Part 2


Had to go back to the metal recyclers this morning (my favourite place) to pick up an old "chimney flue" which would be cut down to size for the trivet on top of the stove whilst I was there, I was looking around for a few more gas bottles and just happened to spot a few more in a pile ,so I asked if I could take a few more bottle.the answer was ,"take as many as you like" ,we can't get rid of them.so this is what followed me home looks like the stove is going to have an extended family.


Anyhow back to the "project". to get the paint of the surface of the bottle for my stove, I used some "polystrip paint stripper" and applied the stuff with a small paint brush on the surface of the bottle,I'd say at a guess you need to allow about 15-20 minutes for the stripper to fully react and work into the paint and allow bubbles to form before scraping/wirebrushing off the paint.



with a wiredisc brush thingy attached to the 4"inch grinder , I cleaned up all
the paint very quickly once the stripper had gotton into the paint and worked
it's magic. and there I had a nice clean bottle ready for weld.




to mark out the circle for the trivet , I placed the Flu on top and marked out around it with a permanent marker, so it will be cut out before a section of pipe is welded in placed.



for the base of the stove, i decided to use an old vented brake rotor I had sitting in the garage which was going to get chucked out in the rubbish but gladly it didn't it came up very nicely with a wire brush on the 4" inch grinder.



placed the gas bottle on top of the rotor and tacked it in with a stick welder and finished welding the bottom of it.

Part 3

Drilled 2 small Holes close to the inside edge of the
cutting line and with the help of a metal cutting tool(saw)
in the Jigsaw chuck I started cutting , it's a slow process but I wasn't in a rush.




the hole was tight so I opended it up
a bit with help of fibre-glass grinding disc on the 4"inch
grinder, just enough for the chimney
flu to be pushed inside from the top.



I also bought a couple of stainless steel hindges
from bunnings ready to be welded on.Haven't
decided what to do about the legs , I've thought about
boring/ drilling 4 holes into the vented rotor and insert
a threded pipe inside the holes and weld them as a captive
threaded pipe so the legs can be screwed onto them
incase I need to pull it apart and take the ozpig camping for ease
of disassembly /reassembly. what are your thoughts?

If you are gonna use pipe legs just visit a hydraulics shop, buy 3 female steel sockets with the correct pipe thread, weld the sockets straight to the bottom of the stove, then lose the vented disc base. Save a heap of weight and the stove will be at a better height.

Thanks Bee utey ,I appreciate that sort of feedback, I have added a fair amount of weight to the thing haven't I wasn't even sure if it was the direction I wanted to go will **** the vented rotor off by cutting it off.

Originally Posted by Disco_owner

Thanks Bee utey ,I appreciate that sort of feedback, I have added a fair amount of weight to the thing haven't I wasn't even sure if it was the direction I wanted to go will **** the vented rotor off by cutting it.

No dramas, if you make the sockets sit near the same depth as the existing foot ring it will be more stable even when you use it without legs.
Add a ring of 8mm rod around the sockets and you'll have a grip to shift it when burning, too.