Hi,
Thank you for the answers, Regarding the water unit I was thinking the same spot in the lower bell. The idea for old (cast) iron radiator as heat excanger is great, thank you. In meantime I started to make sketchup model of this heater, but I am not convinced that I will do it right :).

Regards,

Vladimir

I am working with my scetchups for publishing. I dont have temperatures on that stove. There is room for a waterunit under the baking stove in the first lower bell right under the oven, it should get sufficiently hot there. I would recomend to try a old Iron radiator. You usually can get one for frea somwhere. It is optimized for air-water heat-exchange.

Yes it has a fairly quick response compared to the bigger heaters, but expect aprox 1 hour, I will soon publish a heater that I personally think is better for that purpose, but it is mabe a little bit more chalenging to build…

I forget to ask you, do you have surface temperatures of the above heater?
The small masonry heater is very interesting (not expensive and “easy” to build). Is it quick to respond (in that case it would be ideal for weekend use).
Best regard,

Vladimir

Hi,
It is great to hear that the problem with the oven door is solved,
I was considering this design mainly for heating and black oven, the cook top for me is not that important. Do you have the temperatures for the oven? Ideally, I would like to incorporate water pipe for central heating, is that possible with this design?
Again, thank you for sharing your work. If you have the drawings in sketch up, would be great.
This winter, I added small masonry double bells both to my existing stoves and with my brothers (brother’s stove is a “rocket” variant), and I am convinced with the efficiency of double bell design.

Regards,
Vladimir

Oh, by the way I have test data on the small massnory heater that I will present once the winter is over. It performes well.

Hi, happy new year. I made a stronger door with stiffer metall, then I used a RTV heat resistant silicone to make a gasket, should be available everywhere in the world. Now I have no problems with the smoke, the draft is no problem with these stoves in general. The heater is working great but the coock top is a little slow beacause of the design, this is discouraging for the users.It is short and wide and heat goes quickly to the bakeoven. I have a solution to the problem that I would use for a future design. The klient is happy with coocking somewhere else. I will soon publish a new small heater that I have tested. I relly love that one, it is optimized for coocking, and can also heat a small water tank.

Hi,
First best wishes for 2013!
I was wondering of you have some test data form the heater? Is the baking door still a problem? Maybe there is not enough draw in chimney? It could be problem for me as well, since here in Macedonia is hard to find proper stove doors.

Vladimir

Hi

I will come with some updates on drawings and performance this weak. The door for baking nead to be air tight and this has bean a problem with the homemade doors. For the burnchamber that has more vacume and sucs air in the door this is not an issue.The drawings are in sketchup and it is a free program from google…