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Solunit Rocket Stove

110 Fire bricks

Barrel canidates

Burning off the barrel

Leveling ash pit and slab

Leveling bottom of the ash pit

Form with welded wire and bricks

Ash pit level with the pumicrete slab

Dry stack to check height

Layer 1 and 2 begins

2nd layer complete

Main chamber complete

Main burn chamber

Chimney hole 7 x 7 plus

7x7- feed tube and ash pit

Fire brick chamber

All three parts of the rocket stove tower

Clean out T and horizontal stove pipe that connects to the barrel

Leveling the tower base

Perlite- mineral insulation

How I stacked the brick chimney

Over lap the next course

Brick work with heat riser front

Brick work with heat riser side

Welded male fitting onto barrel

Fire in the burn tunnel

While filling perlite in the heatriser cover the hole

Heat riser insulated with perlite

Mudded and ready to go...

Finally burning...

Rocket stove test burn using pallets

Temporary flue exit

Chamber after test burn... ready for pumice

Blackened riser with lip around the top

Blackened riser

Filling around the base with white pumice

Flattened top and covered with mud

White pumice around the entire stove

Pumice cob over white pumice and earthbag

Test placement of the barrel in wet cob

Barrel and clean out

Connected for test run 2

25' pipe run connected

Taking shape and leveled out.

Taped the pipe seals

Fire roaring on a small amount of wood

View from the end of the building

Side view while cooking

Heat riser after a few burns

Base of the heat riser after burn

Barrel cleaned up

2 coats of paint

High heat stove paint

Steam rising from the cob on the hot pipe

Stove with some cob

Vertical pipe to roof

Roof cap installed

Shaping the bench with cob

Cold air intake

Connects to outside

Cap cover installed

Cap fits nicely

Rocket with mud covered barrel

Rocket Mud detail

Last layer of adobe mud on the Rocket

Sclupted Rocket still drying

Cover for the clean out.

Rocket sculptor

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