Our New DIY Evaporator

[nudlebush]

Here is a pic of our new evaporator, thanks to all the pics and forums in the DIY forums. We tried to pick the best of everyone’s ideas, used our original flat pans and made "The Beast" to fit.

Inside the fire box we have some fire brick, we heavy catwalk material for the grate and the clean-out door and main door are from an old wood stove as with the 6" stove pipe flange.

If things go as planned we will be fabricating a drop flue pan from recycled cafeteria counters that has a mixture of 16 and 18 g SS.
I built a DIY metal brake that will give me 2" wide flues, if we have luck with pan I will post some pics.

Thank you every one for your input into the DIY forums

Andy

[nudlebush]

Hopefully the pic is attached now

[Bucket Head]

Nudlebush,

That looks good! Nice job.

I made and welded up flues for my pan. Its well worth the effort.

Good luck with it and keep us updated on its performance.

steve

[Haynes Forest Products]

Sure looks better than the first rig I welded together.

[cheesegenie]

Very nice unit, should work great. Do you have a building to put it in?

[nudlebush]

We built a 16x10 shed 1 mile back in my bush a few yrs back. Last yr was brutal as we had near 3' of snow on the ground and our only way back is by 4wheeler.

Here is a pic of our sugar camp

[cheesegenie]

That shed looks good.Mine is a mile back too, same thing 4 wheeler or
ski doo only. But this year I am moving it to the house too ,many vandals
on ATVs. Hard to stop them as I let Snowmobile Club travel along my land
and they keep a well groomed, hard packed trail that the bikes love.

[nudlebush]

Well with maybe only a week of good weather left my welder finished our new flue pan. I bent all the parts using the DYI brake from the plans here on Maple Trader.

We will get her fired up this wkend.

Here is a pic of the new pan and our evap in operations

The new pan is 18.5 x 37 x 7"

:D