Steamer

[vampire]

I need some ideas on building a steamer. Surely someone out there has a plan I can use.
Thanks

[PEARL DRUMS]

6" stove pipe with a cap on one end and a register adapter on the other to sit on top of a pot of water. Just that simple. I riveted my sections together. I use a chunk of 4 x 4 to hold up the capped end slightly higher than the pot end, that way it drains back nicely.

[TroutGuide]

I used bubble type foil insulation and mabe a sleave and then used my wifes clothing steamer just shoved into the sleve and cliped shut around it.  Workes great if you have a clothing or wallpaper steamer.

[DVSHUNTER]

Six in pipe made to look like a "T" with a cap on each end. Dean torges gives the plans for his which is where I got em. I wrapped mine loosly with insulation as well to give a bit more heat. I mostly use dry heat now because I have better succes with it, but I do use the tube to help speed dry wood per Dean's book.

[SEMO_HUNTER]

I built a cradle to set my stave on top of a big canning pot like you would can vegetables in and then wrap aluminum foil over top of the stave to keep the steam in. It's worked fine, but I like the stove pipe idea better. I do steam now and then with green staves to work out a few kinks before sealing them up, but I agree with DVS about the dry heat and I use that more than the steaming. It's also been my experience that even though I steam out a problem area when the stave is green, within a few short weeks it's contorted itself again as it dries so I end up using dry heat in the end anyway.

[Adam Keiper]

I found 6" pipe is too big to effectively heat with household heat sources.  So, I use 4" stove pipe with an "L" on one end that flares from 4" to 6".  I wrap the works in an old blanket and duct tape and set the the L on a pot of boiling water, supported by some very heavy wire mesh.  I wrap some aluminium foil around the pot to keep the steam directed into the tube, and restrict the other end with a rag.  I prop the other end up slightly, so condensation drains back into the pot.

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Good looking set up and cool Kayak you got going but no pics over 640 pixels please.

[Osagetree]

Please send me the kayak plans!