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Anyone know where I can pick up a couple of 45/50 gallon oil drums (preferably ones that haven't been cut up)?

eBay's no help as they're all collection-only and none in a reasonable distance (and the only ones who deliver are charging £99 for the drum, and extra for delivery... they're having a laugh!)
 
amjake said:
Bury St Edmunds £5 cash only

When do you need them for?
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That's perfect mate :)

I need a couple for a home-made heating and water-boiling system I've designed. Tested it in small-scale (using large dogfood cans) and I'm now ready to go full-size on this sucker :)

Beauty is it's an instant water heater [once the tank is up to heat, anyway], rather than having to store the hot water in a header tank (though that can be done also, and likely will)
 
crosslandkelly said:
I'm sure we could come to some sort of arrangement while I'm in Suffolk, even if someone could buy and store them for me till I get up there in January.
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If Stu is okay with it, I could pick up a couple and leave them at the group site so they're there for the next meet? Obviously I wouldn't be staying, just dropping them off in the shed and headed home...
 
crosslandkelly said:
I'm sure we could come to some sort of arrangement while I'm in Suffolk, even if someone could buy and store them for me till I get up there in January.
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Send them a message see if you can pick them up when your down on the Friday morning before you go to teh Pub..

YOu looking at doing a Oil drum Frontier stove? :)
 
SJStuart said:
If Stu is okay with it, I could pick up a couple and leave them at the group site so they're there for the next meet? Obviously I wouldn't be staying, just dropping them off in the shed and headed home...
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you got to get them across the field first...
 
SJStuart said:
If Stu is okay with it, I could pick up a couple and leave them at the group site so they're there for the next meet? Obviously I wouldn't be staying, just dropping them off in the shed and headed home...
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Cheers for that mate, but thats way out of your way. I was thinking I could pick them up during or after the meet.

Big Stu 12 said:
Send them a message see if you can pick them up when your down on the Friday morning before you go to teh Pub..

YOu looking at doing a Oil drum Frontier stove? :)
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Good idea Stu. I was thinking about an incinerator at the site, and a BBQ for myself.
 
Yeah an incinerator would be an idea.. I know we spoke about it on Sunday... it would make rubbish disposal easier.. seeing we getting a kitty we would have the money for it :)

And I think a Large Kettle would be a good one as well :), and a early purchase from funds :)
 
Big Stu 12 said:
Yeah an incinerator would be an idea.. I know we spoke about it on Sunday... it would make rubbish disposal easier.. seeing we getting a kitty we would have the money for it :)

And I think a Large Kettle would be a good one as well :), and a early purchase from funds :)
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My simple design would make a "large kettle" easy enough to build.
I'm going to share the entire plan, design and build process as a series of videos on my YouTube channel... figure others can benefit from this thing!
Electric immersion water heating is stupidly expensive compared to throwing a few kilos of firewood in a drum ;)

Hell, if you just want to directly heat 205 litres of water, you could just stack one oil drum on top of another, make the bottom one the fire chamber, and stick a brass tap on the top tank... the only difficulty would be actually filling the thing!
 
SJStuart said:
My simple design would make a "large kettle" easy enough to build.
I'm going to share the entire plan, design and build process as a series of videos on my YouTube channel... figure others can benefit from this thing!
Electric immersion water heating is stupidly expensive compared to throwing a few kilos of firewood in a drum ;)

Hell, if you just want to directly heat 205 litres of water, you could just stack one oil drum on top of another, make the bottom one the fire chamber, and stick a brass tap on the top tank... the only difficulty would be actually filling the thing!
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So a 5 ltr kettle it is then.:)
 
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