How many DIY stove threads do we need?

[willfrye027]

Who knows, but I’m throwing mine into the mix. My plan is to end up with two stoves, similar design as the old TiGoat. One will be small for long hikes/mild weather/small shelters, the other will be big for the opposite.

Special thanks to @reaper for the ideas and tips going into this!

Materials:

10” Titanium sheet for stove pipe (8.5ft 2.5in diameter) and stove body, along with damper/rings/etc for stove pipe from lite outdoors—$200

.020” grade 2 titanium sheet from TMS titanium, 8.1”x48”—$56

12in 316ss threaded rods #6-31 (8 total), ss wingnuts, steel river nuts—$22

2.5in Bimetal hole saw—$15 (Amazon)

Total about $300

 

[willfrye027]

Today I got all the materials in the mail. I had already made a mock-up with paper, so I just needed to trace my cut outs onto the metal and get cutting. Everything cut surprisingly well using my trauma shears. Kitchen scissors seems to work OK but I didn’t want to ruin them so I stuck with the shears.



I started with cutting and bending the top/bottom of the stove with about 1/4 of fold for the edges


I used the wrench to very slowly bend the edges, bit by bit only a few degrees at a time. It took forever and maybe I should have used some sheet mental benders.


Both plates finished

 

[Ndstevens]

Who knows, but I’m throwing mine into the mix. My plan is to end up with two stoves, similar design as the old TiGoat. One will be small for long hikes/mild weather/small shelters, the other will be big for the opposite.

Materials:

10” Titanium sheet for stove pipe (8.5ft 2.5in diameter) and stove body, along with damper/rings/etc for stove pipe from lite outdoors—$200

.020” grade 2 titanium sheet from TMS titanium, 8.1”x48”—$56

12in 316ss threaded rods #6-31 (8 total), ss wingnuts, steel river nuts—$22

2.5in Bimetal hole saw—$15 (Amazon)

Total about $300

Good luck. Let us all know how it works out for you

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[willfrye027]

Next I drilled holes in all the corners for the legs. In the top piece I made them larger so I could install the rivet nuts. This way all the weight gets distributed straight from the top plate into the legs and doesn’t put pressure on the thinner body material. I’ll have to get some close ups of those tomorrow. It was not easy installing the rivetnuts without a dedicated tool but YouTube has some methods that work.

Here’s what my total weight for the little one is looking like. I haven’t cut the stove pipe hole yet, or made a door, but this should be close. Dimensions of the small stove are 5”x10”x8”tall.



With 8.5ft pipe and hardware

 

[willfrye027]

Tomorrow I will cut the stove pipe hole and door. Also will need to make some angle to attach to the inner walls in order to keep the body in place.


Here’s a rivet nut installed with a leg screwed into it. PIA to work with but it’s a nice touch and makes assembly way easier.

 

[willfrye027]

Cut the stove pipe hole, made a door, and cut some vent holes. Only thing left to do is install some angles to the plate edges.

 

[willfrye027]

Got my $6 rivet gun in the mail today so I could finish up. Also got a sheet metal bending tool which I should have just waited for in the first place. Much much easier and cleaner folds. I finished up making the retaining angles on my small stove and went ahead and build the big one too. Big stove measures 13.5”x7.5”x10”tall. 1lb 4oz, 2lb 5oz with pipe and all hardware. Took about 6 hours, much easier this time around. Overall this is a very doable DIY project. I would recommend getting a bimetal hole saw and sheet metal bender (if doing similar style) to make it easier and better finished product. Now just need to test them out and probably make some small mods!

 

[dirtbike11811]

Great looking stove!

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[willfrye027]

Finally got to test them, both work great! They both draft well with the pipe and have virtually no smoke leaking once it gets going. I’m very pleased and a little surprised it turned out well.

 

[willfrye027]

 

[mattjcecil]

Awesome work man, looks great

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[Skuhzz]

This came out great. I just bought a lite outdoors last night but this is making me want to make my own

 

[Timnterra]

Awesome build!

 

[Newtosavage]

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Dammit that looks inviting. Nice job.

 

[willfrye027]

Dammit that looks inviting. Nice job.

My wife calls it “our hot tub in the tent”. I can’t camp without it!

 

[Tradit]

Did you create your screen name specifically for this post

 

[DBlack]

Nice job

 

[TRed]

Where did you get the materials?

 

[willfrye027]

Where did you get the materials?

See post 1. Lite outdoors for pipe, TMS titanium for .020” plate, harbor freight for tools

 

[Currahee13]

Who knows, but I’m throwing mine into the mix. My plan is to end up with two stoves, similar design as the old TiGoat. One will be small for long hikes/mild weather/small shelters, the other will be big for the opposite.

Special thanks to @reaper for the ideas and tips going into this!

Materials:

10” Titanium sheet for stove pipe (8.5ft 2.5in diameter) and stove body, along with damper/rings/etc for stove pipe from lite outdoors—$200

.020” grade 2 titanium sheet from TMS titanium, 8.1”x48”—$56

12in 316ss threaded rods #6-31 (8 total), ss wingnuts, steel river nuts—$22

2.5in Bimetal hole saw—$15 (Amazon)

Total about $300

Awesome work and thank you