by 67GTO » Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:21 pm
BTW....My name is Todd and I'm new to the whole permsteading idea. I was convicted a few months back about the stewardship I had been displaying for my whole life. My whole career has been dedicated to destroying things. Hit me like a ton of bricks, so I started looking into ways I could live more self sufficiently and leave less of a footprint. My goal is finding a realistic way and not an idealistic pipe dream, which usually ends up in disappointment and frustration. Anyway enough of the life story.
I have a question regarding my project. I am struggling to find a way to cut the sonotube to get mitered corners, so I think I'm just going to find a 90 degree hunk of duct, and then on the feed tube end just dead end it. I was thinking for the duct to fill in the grooves with play dough (from the sons supply that doesn't get used) and then slather the whole thing with some vaseline to try and protect it long enough for the dryout. My question is for the riser. I can't seem to come up with a piece of pipe for the initial burns so I was thinking of taking a piece of cardboard with wax paper and laying it down on the core, then doing the riser on top of that. That way I can have a two piece system that is easier to move, since I'm in a rental. What does anyone think?
P.S. No I don't have a 67 GTO using up 6 miles per gallon. That's my initials and year of birth. Kind of looked strange on a site that is looking to be a better steward of our resources, I just always use that.