[Gasification] Chip Guillotine

Jason urepedese at gmail.com
Fri Jan 17 01:52:37 CST 2014


Doug,

I love the reference to Fluidyne Red and Black, it reminds me of my short
RNZAF career as the aircraft spray painting aspect of my trade. Aircraft
colours were specified with names such as "Royal Blue", "Dark Admiralty
Grey", or Light Admiralty Grey".

There is an idea forming in my mind of a quick method for cutting smaller
stems that will be quick and efficient. It involves a sabre saw and
hopefully I will get one together soon as I have a TLUD design I am also
pondering on.

Jason
The IntensiFire


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Doug <Doug.Williams at orcon.net.nz> wrote:

>
> Hi Jeff, Paul, and Colleagues,
>
> Since I posted the first stage of making and testing this innovative
> little concept of making cooking stove fuel and even gasifier fuel, I have
> found it necessary to add another little moving part to keep blade slot
> clear of chips. After a cutting a few full lengths, the slot packed very
> tightly, so a simple lever just pulls a pivoting flat bar upwards and
> ejects the plug.
>
> I found that it cuts our native hardwood’s easily, and also bamboo which
> shatters into separate bits as the hollow centre allows the tube to crush,
> then cut cleanly. Compared to using a machete or hatchet to cut these
> smaller branches/cane stems/reeds/shrubs etc., all the bits drop out
> without flying all over the place needing to be picked up. I will probably
> be making a few angle brackets from the base angle mounts to mount a sheet
> metal trough on each side of the blade.
>
> In regards to the force required to make a cut, it is similar to cutting
> say 3mm steel in a hand guillotine. Surprisingly, I found some woods cut
> better at right angles with less force, so have a few new things to learn
> about how wood chip cuts in ways that we like. The nice chunky round chips
> also displayed very little laminar displacement of the grain, which results
> in lots of chip just falling apart. This might be OK for stoves, but not
> gasifiers.
>
> Another interesting factor that resulted by hand grinding the cutting
> disc, is the the grinding disc left a fine serration to the blade edge,
> making it look like a micro tooth saw, rather than a knife edge. It works
> rather well, so easy to resharpen in most rural workshops. The thought of a
> ground blade isn't a low tech solution!  Also added was a blade stop,
> bolted to one of the blade holes to stop the blade crunching down onto the
> chip clearing blade.
>
> Finally, a coat of paint in "Fluidyne Red and Black", should inspire any
> DIY who needs one. I will show the whole project on the Fluidyne Archive
> once I assemble a few more photos of the fuel cutting detail.
>
> Doug Williams,
> Fluidyne.
>
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