Dude! This is so cool! Finally I found a video on UA-cam that shows I'm not alone, I recently bought the same metal shed as a room to house a waste oil stove, I'm still fabricating the stove and actually been testing it this weekend, making a barrel waste oil stove with double burner pots inside because the place I have to heat is more then 46.000 ft³, it'll be forced air through ventilation hoses tho. But that heat exchanger you build is crazy! Awesome stuff!
Happy Christmass from county Limweick Ireland, very intresting project, you are a good man letting gods creatures live in your workshop, good carma and respect to you sir.
What a project, this is awesome. I would suggest you get a tube bender if you ever do something like this again and even a swagger. I build heating/cooling system and would not ever work copper pipe again without.
Your brazing is a lot better than many of the seasoned refrigeration guys I've seen, myself excluded. Lol. We use 15% sil fos for better flown a tad more expensive but the better results are worth it in my opinion.
excellent now can you make a large portable sand bag making trailer trough top filled with end loader and several gravity chutes on lower side save the backs of the people struggling to fill sand bags with a shovel one at a time .
What a guy, great job. If the pipes ever start to leak in the u-bends (I don't beleive they will though), move the entire unit to the other side and re-solder the u-bends so that the solder fills the other side of the bend better. Success guaranteed 💪
I think that you are extreamly patient & very gifted person - did you ever work as a boiler fabricator - i worked on repairing industrial boilers many years ago , i never liked the work - I’ve worked on solar heat exchangers as well , more rewarding & a lot easier - I’m retired now but seeing you at work its a great pleasure , i must say your a real craftsman. Best of luck & take care. Ed,
I’m just watching this and didn’t realize it was a year old :/ but I wanted to give you a tip and hope someone already had. I use a hot water pressure washer which uses an oil burner for it. Soot is a big issue with them because the cold water going through causes tons of soot buildup. To solve it, there’s something you can buy (don’t know a name or brand) that you pour in the oil tank and as it burns through it it just evaporates out the soot. Would suggest you run it! Especially with used motor oil as it’s so much dirtier than clean diesel/oil
now this is cool may have to see if this would work for my shop lol but you got some pations to do all that pip welding and by the way thats a cool brazing tip
Very NICE! You could have run both inside coil ends straight out the end via pipe couplers so you don't have to cut them off to get the tube and coil out. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
I’m on the couch laughing my ass off as your working that header on. God how many times we find ourselves in this spot pissed but she’s gotta work.... damn lol
Chad did great work and video I appreciate you keeping it safe for the little ears especially when they like to repeat everything they hear. Oh and if I knew half of what you forgotten I would know what you're doing. But since I don't I'm going to move on to video number two.
Plasma torch ain't the easiest tool to make a nice clean straight cut without a real good guide, especially if you don't do it all the time.. It's a Godsend when you need it though! Nice work
I just stumbled onto your channel. This is an awesome build. I am trying to decide what I am going to do. I have a shop that needs heat badly and is not insulated. It is also in a barn so I need to put the main burner/heater away from the building and pipe the heat in . I am thinking of hot air but I am not sure yet. thanks for sharing.
Afternoon good channel bud, on the welding helmet, I have been having issue seeing my welds, I stepped up to the Vulcan omnipro 220 and more importantly the Vulcan helmet, I CAN SEE MY WELDS for the first time in a long time. If you chance try one, fantastic view of welds plus you can get extra magnifying lenses for the inside . around $170 . I have the one also you bought average at best
I'm planning on building an outdoor oil boiler, but using a gas water heater tank as my heat exchanger. Probably won't be the most efficient thing in the world, but the advantage is that you can always find water heaters for free, so it'll be easily replaceable.
You can measure the material in the box to find out the square footage. It being 1/4" thick then each four sq. ft weighs abt. 40 pounds. You can sit down and do that calculation and won't have to lift anything..
Something came to mind when I seen you hard soldering all those connections. What is the chance using a bending jig would save you a lot of soldering and maybe cost ???How did you come up with the number of pipes to use for total heat scavenging ??? How about the copper pipe type, did you use K type ?? Did you start a wood fire to animal the copper tubing ??? How do you know the distance to cut the water circuit in half???? Listen fella about brain farts, we all get them, the trick is to be able to laugh at oneself which makes it all better. Beside's being human has a lot of downsides. Thank you for your time Sir. Good luck to you and peace too. VF
I could only bend half of the tubes otherwise I couldn't get them in the heat exchanger. The size of the old one determined everything, I built it to fit what I had already.
Great work on the heat exchanger Chad ! What number shade do you use to weld on your new helmet? Merry Christmas to you too , Although I’m watching this well after Christmas
Dang man a second set of hands to help you with that header would made a big difference. I hate when I'm trying to do something and no one's around to lend ahand. Thankfully my oldest boy has been hanging out with me in the shop since he could walk he's 7 now and loves building projects with me. His ma don't like it to much when it's bed time and he's in his pajamas and I come in and say litle Chuckie get your boots I need help in the shop
I'm athinkin that winding those two coils on the burner tube... I might have wound them interleaved, both would be on the full length. Inasmuch as it is SO hot, maybe feed them hot end in, avoid the possibility of steam. Michael in Colorado.
I think that’s a type of bird that liked to spend time in caves. Today you’ll find they like spending time inside shopping malls and such. You think they’ve made a mistake but no, they want to be inside. I’m dead serious.
I do not want to be a naysayer but you would be a whole lot better off using a Dynatherm boiler which remover heat to such a degree that you can put your hand on the outlet flue pipe.The Dynatherm has a efficiency rating of low ninety percent. Using copper in the corrosive path of burn fuel oil will cause the copper to corrode because of sulfides in the flue gas. Good luck just saying. Peace V
@@ThisNThatGarage Sorry I must of somehow missed that part. Really enjoy your channel with lots of useful information. Keep up the great work fella too. VF
This is something I picked up from a previous employer. I'm not sure if it's proprietary or not but all it is is two small copper tubes brazed to the mixer.
Maybe I'm simple but couldn't you just put two coils of tubing inside the box and feed those out to headers. No soldering except to the headers. I mean wouldn't you get the same output from either one. The copper is still in the heat. And the water would have to travel up one coil and out the other. Just me being lazy. ; )
@@ThisNThatGarage but that is my point. Would it really capture more heat. Like I said I'm simple, ; ) it seems like if the water has to come into a coil and then back through another it would pick up as much or more heat. Plus, none of the coils are outside the box. Just the headers. Guess I'll have to give it a try and see for sure. Seems like a lot of cost and work would be avoided as well. That's just me being lazy, or as I like to call it efficient, lol
@@markjohnson9402 Of course it captures more heat. I've built these 6 ways from sunday and this by far exceeds anything I've built nevermind that manufacturers wouldn't use a multipass system if it didn't work. You'll have to be more specific. Are you just throwing in two store bought coils of copper into a box or are you wrapping them to a certain shape? How's it arranged? How much copper in the coils? What size copper? Where's the burner? How long is the burner tube? Where is the exhaust in comparison to the burner tube? Heat goes straight up so unless you have the copper in its direct path you won't capture any heat hence the reason for forcing the hot gases to go around a lot of copper. That's just basic physics there.
I am impressed with the quality of the heat exchanger, the whole build looks very nice!
Dude! This is so cool! Finally I found a video on UA-cam that shows I'm not alone, I recently bought the same metal shed as a room to house a waste oil stove, I'm still fabricating the stove and actually been testing it this weekend, making a barrel waste oil stove with double burner pots inside because the place I have to heat is more then 46.000 ft³, it'll be forced air through ventilation hoses tho. But that heat exchanger you build is crazy! Awesome stuff!
Preshate it. This has been an ongoing experiment for several years now. Hope you get yours all worked out.
Happy Christmass from county Limweick Ireland, very intresting project, you are a good man letting gods creatures live in your workshop, good carma and respect to you sir.
Hello Ireland! 👍
What a project, this is awesome. I would suggest you get a tube bender if you ever do something like this again and even a swagger. I build heating/cooling system and would not ever work copper pipe again without.
Your brazing is a lot better than many of the seasoned refrigeration guys I've seen, myself excluded. Lol. We use 15% sil fos for better flown a tad more expensive but the better results are worth it in my opinion.
I appreciate your patience when you build that header and I got a pretty good chuckle out of that. It happens to us all.
You are quite the problem solver Chad !! With your persevarance and innovation I think you could build anything !
Crazy amount of work, but the harder job will most definitely work better. Nice !
Like to say hey, I’ve got a washboard stomach. I’ve just got a load of towels in
excellent now can you make a large portable sand bag making trailer trough top filled with end loader and several gravity chutes on lower side save the backs of the people struggling to fill sand bags with a shovel one at a time .
A smart man its amazing that you can make all the stuff that you make good video
I’m glad to have found you. Hell of a job!
Can’t wait to see part 2
What a guy, great job. If the pipes ever start to leak in the u-bends (I don't beleive they will though), move the entire unit to the other side and re-solder the u-bends so that the solder fills the other side of the bend better. Success guaranteed 💪
I really like the background music, especially the first piece in this video
I think that you are extreamly patient & very gifted person - did you ever work as a boiler fabricator - i worked on repairing industrial boilers many years ago , i never liked the work - I’ve worked on solar heat exchangers as well , more rewarding & a lot easier - I’m retired now but seeing you at work its a great pleasure , i must say your a real craftsman. Best of luck & take care. Ed,
This is one hell of a great video. Great content.
I’m just watching this and didn’t realize it was a year old :/ but I wanted to give you a tip and hope someone already had. I use a hot water pressure washer which uses an oil burner for it. Soot is a big issue with them because the cold water going through causes tons of soot buildup. To solve it, there’s something you can buy (don’t know a name or brand) that you pour in the oil tank and as it burns through it it just evaporates out the soot. Would suggest you run it! Especially with used motor oil as it’s so much dirtier than clean diesel/oil
Definitely something to tell the captain 👩✈️
That sir is alot of work!!!
Extremely interesting!
now this is cool may have to see if this would work for my shop lol but you got some pations to do all that pip welding and by the way thats a cool brazing tip
Wow pretty amazing construction and engineering
Good job that was a lot of work
Very NICE! You could have run both inside coil ends straight out the end via pipe couplers so you don't have to cut them off to get the tube and coil out. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
you wont see this but love it have dont simular love it
I’m on the couch laughing my ass off as your working that header on. God how many times we find ourselves in this spot pissed but she’s gotta work.... damn lol
Glad I could offer a laugh or two up. 🤣
Chad did great work and video I appreciate you keeping it safe for the little ears especially when they like to repeat everything they
hear. Oh and if I knew half of what you forgotten I would know what you're doing. But since I don't I'm going to move on to video number two.
Love the camera/pounds jokes. I had a feeling it was going to be to much for the scale. Nice video.
I loved this video! I’m a recent subscriber, starting to watch your older videos, amazing!
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Good one
Plasma torch ain't the easiest tool to make a nice clean straight cut without a real good guide, especially if you don't do it all the time.. It's a Godsend when you need it though! Nice work
I just stumbled onto your channel. This is an awesome build. I am trying to decide what I am going to do. I have a shop that needs heat badly and is not insulated. It is also in a barn so I need to put the main burner/heater away from the building and pipe the heat in . I am thinking of hot air but I am not sure yet. thanks for sharing.
Well if that ain't somethin' to tell the Captain ! LOL
I think an issue hes going to have is the pipes running inside are relatively cold on return and will cause alot of build up of soot.
Chad drilling them holes must of taken a month of Sundays mate 🥴🥴
Nah. Drill press zipped right thru them.
Love the video ..you could spin the metal around while you had it up to save some of that back and please do mine is shot
look like carolina wrens nest inside in some sort of pocket mith mate forage all day then return to nest at night.
If it had a powered exhaust fan it may not soot up, better fuel air ratio.
Flame will burn holes in the copper.
Afternoon good channel bud, on the welding helmet, I have been having issue seeing my welds, I stepped up to the Vulcan omnipro 220 and more importantly the Vulcan helmet, I CAN SEE MY WELDS for the first time in a long time. If you chance try one, fantastic view of welds plus you can get extra magnifying lenses for the inside . around $170 . I have the one also you bought average at best
I'm getting older and my sight is going too. I had to add a magnifying lens inside of my helmet. It made a huge difference!
I'm planning on building an outdoor oil boiler, but using a gas water heater tank as my heat exchanger. Probably won't be the most efficient thing in the world, but the advantage is that you can always find water heaters for free, so it'll be easily replaceable.
Yeah that's a disadvantage of mine, I can't just run out and find a replacement. Hopefully it'll last a few years tho.
Well done video
Preshate it Don.
Oh..by the way you need a cheater lens to add to your welding helmet they come in different strengths like reading glasses
You can measure the material in the box to find out the square footage. It being 1/4" thick then each four sq. ft weighs abt. 40 pounds. You can sit down and do that calculation and won't have to lift anything..
Something came to mind when I seen you hard soldering all those connections. What is the chance using a bending jig would save you a lot of soldering and maybe cost ???How did you come up with the number of pipes to use for total heat scavenging ??? How about the copper pipe type, did you use K type ?? Did you start a wood fire to animal the copper tubing ??? How do you know the distance to cut the water circuit in half???? Listen fella about brain farts, we all get them, the trick is to be able to laugh at oneself which makes it all better. Beside's being human has a lot of downsides. Thank you for your time Sir. Good luck to you and peace too. VF
I could only bend half of the tubes otherwise I couldn't get them in the heat exchanger. The size of the old one determined everything, I built it to fit what I had already.
Chase is that a hone mate torch tip that you are using ? I have never seen one like it , that works great 🤙🤙
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Great work on the heat exchanger Chad ! What number shade do you use to weld on your new helmet? Merry Christmas to you too , Although I’m watching this well after Christmas
It's auto darkening. I think it's set on 10.
Dang man a second set of hands to help you with that header would made a big difference. I hate when I'm trying to do something and no one's around to lend ahand. Thankfully my oldest boy has been hanging out with me in the shop since he could walk he's 7 now and loves building projects with me. His ma don't like it to much when it's bed time and he's in his pajamas and I come in and say litle Chuckie get your boots I need help in the shop
I'm athinkin that winding those two coils on the burner tube... I might have wound them interleaved, both would be on the full length. Inasmuch as it is SO hot, maybe feed them hot end in, avoid the possibility of steam. Michael in Colorado.
Check out part 2 and then look for part 3 this Friday to see how it turns out.
47:48 just call it a test port :)
I think that’s a type of bird that liked to spend time in caves. Today you’ll find they like spending time inside shopping malls and such. You think they’ve made a mistake but no, they want to be inside. I’m dead serious.
You look to keep yourself in pretty good shape (round is a shape)..lol🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey! I'm resemble that remark!
if you pput a thermostat above 60c celcius for the water then you dont have much carbon buildup
I do not want to be a naysayer but you would be a whole lot better off using a Dynatherm boiler which remover heat to such a degree that you can put your hand on the outlet flue pipe.The Dynatherm has a efficiency rating of low ninety percent. Using copper in the corrosive path of burn fuel oil will cause the copper to corrode because of sulfides in the flue gas. Good luck just saying. Peace V
Maybe you missed the part where I lay my hand on the exhaust. For the money I have in this it'll be just fine.
@@ThisNThatGarage Sorry I must of somehow missed that part. Really enjoy your channel with lots of useful information. Keep up the great work fella too. VF
Would you be able to tell me if the heat exchanger work for a woodstove ??? Hope you could give me some guidance Sir. Thanks
Goodmorning
Great build. What kind of mig welder are you using. Are you use flux-cored or gas. Thankyou
Airco Dip Pak 250 is the mig welder I own.
Very cool dude! When you said your old welding lens "gave up" or something, what actually happened to it? I've never heard of that...
It's auto darkening, it just quit working.
I would have used black iron an a tubing bender
Be sure to do that on yours then! 👍
What's model number of the welding helmet
Did you use the oven trick to soften the copper?
Torch.
What type of brazing tip do you use?
This is something I picked up from a previous employer. I'm not sure if it's proprietary or not but all it is is two small copper tubes brazed to the mixer.
I don't really know a whole lot about much, but tell me why it looks like you are building a still? Lol
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Yeah man it's still family friendly I'll be got down off of my horse and stepped in Apollo shifting sand
Maybe I'm simple but couldn't you just put two coils of tubing inside the box and feed those out to headers. No soldering except to the headers. I mean wouldn't you get the same output from either one. The copper is still in the heat. And the water would have to travel up one coil and out the other. Just me being lazy. ; )
Not sure I follow but the reason for this design is a 3 pass system to capture as much heat as possible.
@@ThisNThatGarage but that is my point. Would it really capture more heat. Like I said I'm simple, ; ) it seems like if the water has to come into a coil and then back through another it would pick up as much or more heat. Plus, none of the coils are outside the box. Just the headers. Guess I'll have to give it a try and see for sure. Seems like a lot of cost and work would be avoided as well. That's just me being lazy, or as I like to call it efficient, lol
@@markjohnson9402 Of course it captures more heat. I've built these 6 ways from sunday and this by far exceeds anything I've built nevermind that manufacturers wouldn't use a multipass system if it didn't work. You'll have to be more specific. Are you just throwing in two store bought coils of copper into a box or are you wrapping them to a certain shape? How's it arranged? How much copper in the coils? What size copper? Where's the burner? How long is the burner tube? Where is the exhaust in comparison to the burner tube? Heat goes straight up so unless you have the copper in its direct path you won't capture any heat hence the reason for forcing the hot gases to go around a lot of copper. That's just basic physics there.
@@ThisNThatGarage Hey looks like a great setup. Wasn't dissing it or you. Very good info regardless. ; )
@@markjohnson9402 No problem, it's all good.
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