One more note on my answer below - Nora, your briquette hole seems rather narrow! Its essential the hole provides enough primary air in the combustion chamber and my tests show a somewhat universal hole would be roughly 4cm/1inch in diameter. I do strongly suggest you make some experiments with your particular briquette blend you're using and see what works best, but i would merely do +/- 1cm
Regards Rok On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Rok Oblak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nora et all, > > just a quick note on starting the fire in the side-feed holey briquette > stove: i usually just tear one half of a briquette into small particles, > like 2-3cm and stack them in the center of the combustion chamber. There > are already 2 briquettes inserted from the side as well. Then i start the > fire from the top, just igniting some of the briquette material, or better > twigs or paper or whatever handy. The briquettes would ignite in 1-2 > minutes.. > > it does very much depend on briquettes you are using, so if your > briquettes contain charcoal or some slow-burning biomass, you might end up > using more starter materials like small twigs to warm up the stove and make > some amber as you say. It takes some practice if briquettes are > slow-burning i suppose, but its interesting to try and build up the skill! > > The bird-briquette looks nice! You should just leave them on the floor so > birds could practice wheel-walking while feeding :) > Rok > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Richard Stanley <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> This is just in from a one Nora Feldmar who is studying in Holland and >> doing her dissertation in amongst the gypsy population in Hungary. >> >> Hello ….. >> I am attaching you a nice moment from today. The multifunctionality of a >> briquette; this time as perfect winter brid food.. (there are quite a bit >> of seeds in our mix) >> >> So winter has started here and the foundation has already distributed >> some briquettes to the families who worked in the "plant" over the past >> months.. I am going there on tuesday to have a look how it is going with >> the heating, and how the briquettes funcion. >> >> I wanted to ask if you have any recommendations/tips in terms of having >> the best burning in heating stoves.. I was also wondering how do u most >> quickly start the fire itself, specially with Rok's stove.. We also have a >> rocket stove and i can only keep a briquette going once I have quite a bit >> of ember going (but once its on it burns over 30-40 mins!). >> >> Greetings, >> Nora >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Fuel Briquetting" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/fuelbriquetting?hl=en. >> >> >> > > > -- > *Rok Oblak, MAA Design* > > [email protected] > briquettestoves.com <http://www.holeyroket.com/> > > Gregorciceva ulica 5 > 4224 Gorenja vas > Slovenia > > -- *Rok Oblak, MAA Design* [email protected] briquettestoves.com <http://www.holeyroket.com/> Gregorciceva ulica 5 4224 Gorenja vas Slovenia
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