Rig welding-Rod oven trick

Could you use the heat from the exhaust gases to do the same thing - or wouldn't it be hot enough? Geoff

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Sounds like a welding project to me. Might provide a bit more muffling, too, which is always good in my book (so long as it's not done in an overly restrictive fashon, and that's a pretty easy condition to maintain). I run a small car muffler on top of my rig (after the pathetic factory "muffler") anyway.

Take a tube of whatever size is good for the rod you want to store, another tube an inch or two bigger, weld a back on both of them, weld a ring to the smaller one, weld the ring to the larger one, exhaust in, exhaust out, perhaps a valve arrangement (with bypass) to adjust temperature and a thermometer to know when to fiddle with it (or a thermostat to control it automagically). A door. Might be similar to some woodstove ovens with a baffle that can direct the gas all around the inner tube before it goes out, or to the out pipe with minmal contact with the inner tube.

Mounting needs to be adequate for whatever weight of rod you stick in there, plus the thing itself. Probably fed with a flex-hose from the muffler output would be best (not stressing the muffler in the machine, not transmitting engine vibes to the oven). Increase pipe size right at the muffler connection and maintain the larger size througout to keep restriction down. Some insulation over the outside to hold heat a while when it's off, and/or keep you from burning yourself on the exterior.

geoff snipped-for-privacy@bigfoot.com.delete.nospam (Geoff M) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I remember that some of the SAE-300, SAE-400 Lincoln Generator welders came with "rod warmers" on them. All they were was a open ended length of 3" thin wall pipe, with a bracket, where it mounted right directly over the exhaust manifold, on the 6 cylinder Teledyne Continental Motor. You stuck your electrodes in this "open ended pipe".

Phil