Because my stove is located in my shop, I have access to my air compressor, which I use on occasion to 'restart' the stove instead of waiting around for my newly added wood to relight from the coals...
It actually works quite well...
Crack the door, and blow in some air and viola, instant fire.
Yesterday, I played with the compressed air for a bit... about 30psi at the regulator, using a special gun I made for injecting pesticides into some wood, this summer, eh curiosity almost killed the duck (not really)
I burn just about everything in my stove, anyways last week, I garbage picked some nice pieces from an old playground set... and welp, one of the deck strews was laying amongst the ashes, using my air gun, i got the coals so hot, that the coals literally burned to nothing before my eyes, and to my absolute amazement, the screw itself, also burned away to nothing... that sucker was HOT! Like white hot, wlmost or even grey like hot... I have never seen anything like that ever, infact it freaked me out a little... so I decided ok that enuff lol
Using my thermo probe, with in 10 seconds of killing the air, I registered 1600F which was the high point it dropped like a rock to settle at around 1300F and then I had to move my hand cause it was too hot...
Just out of PURE curiousity how hot was it? Obviously way beyond the design of my stove... I know that so please dont preach to me how dangerous this is and stuff I am just curious...
Will I be pulling such experiments in the future? definately not lol.
It actually works quite well...
Crack the door, and blow in some air and viola, instant fire.
Yesterday, I played with the compressed air for a bit... about 30psi at the regulator, using a special gun I made for injecting pesticides into some wood, this summer, eh curiosity almost killed the duck (not really)
I burn just about everything in my stove, anyways last week, I garbage picked some nice pieces from an old playground set... and welp, one of the deck strews was laying amongst the ashes, using my air gun, i got the coals so hot, that the coals literally burned to nothing before my eyes, and to my absolute amazement, the screw itself, also burned away to nothing... that sucker was HOT! Like white hot, wlmost or even grey like hot... I have never seen anything like that ever, infact it freaked me out a little... so I decided ok that enuff lol
Using my thermo probe, with in 10 seconds of killing the air, I registered 1600F which was the high point it dropped like a rock to settle at around 1300F and then I had to move my hand cause it was too hot...
Just out of PURE curiousity how hot was it? Obviously way beyond the design of my stove... I know that so please dont preach to me how dangerous this is and stuff I am just curious...
Will I be pulling such experiments in the future? definately not lol.