Where to get an old car disk. How to make a stove from rims. Let's improve the potbelly stove made of disks

Despite the fact that metal is considered one of the strongest and most durable materials, it loses its position over time. However, something that can no longer serve for its intended purpose is often quite capable of serving another term in a different role. For example, wheel rims that have gone out of use can be adapted to various needs, which is what lovers of useful homemade products do with success.

Barbecues, ovens

One of the most common designs made from used wheels is barbecues in various designs. In the simplest version, coals are simply placed in a disk, and on top is a grill for meat or skewers. The disk itself can either stand on the ground/rocks or on legs. It’s not difficult to build a brazier with legs if you have a grinder and a welding machine, but in addition to the tools and base, you will need a metal profile pipe for the frame.

The disk is cleaned of rust, a partition is cut out on one side, and a plug is welded into the bottom. Three legs are welded either into the bottom or on the sides, optimal length legs 40-45 cm - a grill of this height is easy to use. You can also immediately fix the grill grate and handles for transportation.

Two disks placed one on top of the other can be used without legs, and if you cut through the door, you get not only a barbecue, but also a potbelly stove.

If you need a larger potbelly stove, for a garage, greenhouse or other needs, you can weld a double one - from four disks, with separate loading.

By equipping the frame with a jack, you can adjust the intensity of heat treatment and change components depending on the desired dish.

Hose clamp

To ensure that the hose lasts as long as possible and is convenient to use, a holder is needed. The round shape is optimal as it prevents creases. A disused disc with minimal modification will become an excellent holder.

Original shelf

In a country house, garage or outbuilding, a couple of discs cut into thirds can become the basis for a shelf.

If you don’t bother with cutting and arrange the disks horizontally, in several rows, with boards or shields between them, you will get a reliable and stable rack.

Coffee table

A polished disc plus a transparent glass tabletop - an exclusive coffee table for an interior in a modern style.

Ceiling lamps

Lightweight car rims, as well as rims from motorcycle wheels, can be turned into stylish chandeliers by equipping them with sockets or LED strips.

Bar chairs

Of course, it’s not so much a second life for old discs as it is outrageous furniture, but as an option - why not?

A stove made from car wheel disks can heat a room up to 15-16 square meters. m, heating a bathhouse or becoming an inexpensive, effective cooking device, which is what this article is actually about. Its main advantage is the availability of high-quality material - thick, resistant and durable steel. Boiler steel in sheets and profiles is expensive, and ordinary structural steel in a furnace structure quickly burns out.

The additional advantage of a disk oven can be seen through experience. Take two pieces of metal of approximately the same size and weight: one from simple steel, and the other cut from a wheel rim, and heat it up stronger, at least in the kitchen on gas. The first one will immediately give off the smell of hot iron, and the second one can be heated to orange (about 900 degrees), without feeling anything unpleasant in the air. A furnace made from wheel rims practically does not dry out the air and does not emit harmful fumes into the atmosphere, because the rims for the wheels are made of special steels that are resistant to corrosion. Of course, they are not standardized for heat resistance, but The reserve of resistance that is built into them is quite enough for a wood-coal stove.

What you need to know about disks

The furnace is being worked out. made using car rims. Don't do things like that!

To make a furnace from disks with your own hands, you need to know not only the advantages, but also the disadvantages of the source material and some, significant in this case, features of the design of furnaces. The disadvantage of special steel is that it is not standardized for welding properties. There are several technologies for the production of wheel rims, but if welding is used for this, it is very limited, followed by thermal tempering (annealing) and flaw detection of the seam. And, of course, no vehicle designer expects anything to be welded to the wheels during operation.

This leads to a very important conclusion from a safety point of view: from disks (see figure), as well as pyrolysis ones, This should not be done under any circumstances! Unless you really want that at one not at all wonderful moment boiling, most likely burning, oil will flow through a crack in the seam or chemically aggressive, highly toxic gases will begin to be released. But these stoves cannot be extinguished; they must burn out completely. Disks can only be used to make a solid fuel combustion furnace.

Note: welding seams for special conditions Operations that are not properly quality controlled are considered unreliable. Welded vessels operating under pressure, heat and for chemically aggressive contents that have not undergone flaw detection and subsequently tested in the operating mode of use are a priori recognized as unsuitable. Any oven satisfies at least two of these conditions.

However, it is possible to make a completely safe solid fuel stove from car wheels using welding for non-residential premises ( country house also applies to them) is quite possible if you follow the following. rules:

The weld must be of visually high quality, without visible defects - cracks, splashes, holes, bubbles, see fig. on right;
You can only weld two mating parts at a time; under no circumstances should you weld the entire structure at once!
After making each seam, the welded parts must be given a rest to allow residual internal stresses to resolve, approx. from 3 minutes per kilogram of mass of connected parts. In practice, cook further no earlier than when you can touch the metal with your bare hand 3-4 cm from the end of the seam;
The finished furnace, after being left for a day to absorb the same stresses, is subjected to a test run, from 3 hours for a stationary one and from an hour for a portable outdoor one, at full power, i.e. with the air throttle (if equipped) or combustion/blower door fully open, and maximum fuel load.

During the test run, the furnace is annealed simultaneously. Detected minor welding defects, no more than 2 per seam, are eliminated after a day, after which the furnace run with annealing is repeated.

Note: The modulus of the coefficient of thermal expansion of TKR steel for car wheels is significantly less than that of structural steels. It’s clear why, but this circumstance also needs to be kept in mind when making a stove, see below.

What you need to know about ovens

When making a stove from car rims, you need to be aware of one more circumstance. According to the rules for the construction of combustion furnaces using solid fuel from the firebox or grate, i.e. from where the fuel is placed to the first vertical obstacle to the current flue gases(for example, the roof of the firebox) should be at least 40-50 cm if standard fuel is loaded into the stove. If it is damp or waste, the specified distance should be increased to 60-80 cm; The heating time of the oven will then increase. The latter is unimportant for disk furnaces, because they warm up quickly.

The reason is from solid fuel hot pyrolysis gases are released, contributing a significant, or even decisive, share to the heat release. If pyrolysis gases come into contact with a less heated surface, they will not be able to burn out and soot will fall out. With further use of such a stove, it will become coked - dense carbon deposits will form on the roof of the firebox and in the chimney. It not only reduces the thermal efficiency of the furnace (analogous to efficiency in the furnace business), but is also a fire hazard.

Note: a high firebox for raw fuel is made so that the pyrolysis gases and water vapor have time to separate, and the former also burn out before reaching the roof. In this case, fuel is loaded to no more than half the height of the firebox.

Disk stoves are very often operated using waste fuel (rotten dried wood, damp scraps, etc.), but at the same time, there may simply not be enough unusable disks for a high stove, or the optimal stove design in this case (see below) ) will not allow you to make a high firebox. Then you can make an oven out of disks by using a non-standard grate made of steel sheet from 6 mm and reinforcing bars from 10 mm. There is no need to fear that there will not be enough air for combustion: through a hole with a diameter of 10 cm, with a chimney 1.5 m high, it will pass enough for a power of 18 kW for wood and 30 kW for coal. A furnace made of disks will never develop something like this.

The non-standard grate is simply inserted into the oven with a gap of approx. 6-10 mm, due to the difference in TKR materials, see above. This design has another advantage - it solves the problem of the ash pan, which is quite serious for disk furnaces. In this case, they simply substitute it under the ashes tin can with a diameter of 15 cm.

Note: horizontal ovens from disks (see below) for the same purpose they are made without grate, i.e. the fuel burns on the stove floor, and the air flow is regulated by a throttle in the ash pan. The durability of steel for discs makes it possible to use such a solution.

What kind of oven should I make?

Based on the above, the possibilities of making a stove yourself from car disks can be sorted out like this:

When it is desirable and necessary, because the use of auto disks allows you to improve the quality of the stove and/or simplify its manufacture.
When possible, for the main (fire) parts of the furnace structure instead of expensive heat-resistant steel.
When possible, partially as a sufficiently resistant material at hand.
When you can’t do anything - discussed above.

When needed

The best use of stove disks is in mobile (portable) outdoor and garden cooking stoves and as firelights. In the simplest disk-based stove for a summer residence, a large mass and height of the side (rim of the disk) are used, which allows stabilizing heat transfer and provides some protection from the wind. How to make a simple country and garden stove from a car wheel, see video:

Video: mini garden oven made from car rims

For the cauldron

However, the best use of auto disks in garden stoves is under a cauldron. The stove made of discs for the cauldron is completely round, and it is in the corners of the brick stove under the cauldron that the cooking utensils heat up less, and soot settles there. The disk stove ensures absolutely uniform heating of the cauldron and saves firewood, which is very significant when using waste fuel. The branches and chips collected on the site and in the surrounding area may not be enough for the pilaf or beshbarmak to ripen as expected. And damp and rotten fuel in a massive brick firebox simply will not heat the cooking vessel to the required degree. In a cauldron oven, both are excluded from auto disks, but – let us emphasize – if it's done correctly.

Flue gases follow the path of least resistance. If you simply weld 2 disks and cut a combustion hole on the side, then hot gases will flow through the technological (to facilitate the design) holes in the disk hub, pos. 1 in Fig., because their total area is larger than that of the fastening and axial ones, and they are lower. If the stove is heated to maximum, then perhaps a tongue of flame will appear from the axial hole, pos. 2, but with a cauldron on the burner of such a stove, all the heat will again go to the side to no avail, pos. 3, or, if you try to plug some of the technical holes, or add fuel, the flame will burst out of the loading door, pos. 4. On such a stove, food prepared by simmering over coals turns out well, pos. 5, but not everyone cooks this way.

A proper stove for a cauldron made from disks must, firstly, be equipped with a tightly closing door on the loading opening. Secondly, the cauldron should sit in the cutout of the burner, partially blocking the technological holes in the hub, pos. 6. This is not difficult to achieve: you need to cut out the middle of the hub with a grinder, as shown in pos. 7. The remainder will not go to waste - it will make an excellent grate. How to make a garden stove for a cauldron from car wheel rims, see also video

Video: oven for a cauldron made of disks

BBQ option

It is not necessary to cut out the core of the disk hub, except for simmering on coals, in the case when a garden barbecue oven is made from disks. Then a grille is placed on the burner - a flame divider, which will at the same time serve as a culinary grille-rasper. The advantage of this design is that several different temperature zones are formed on the rasp, pos. 1 in Fig. on the right, which allows, for example, to simultaneously cook rare roast beef (half-raw with blood), medium (juicy, moderately baked, like a shish kebab), and well done (fried until crispy). If there is a group of people at the picnic, everyone will get something to their liking at the same time. It is advisable to make such a furnace from disks with a small number of wide technological holes in the hub, for example. from Gazelle. The grille is made from bicycle spokes. There is no need to cook them: they are perfectly joined with heat-resistant metal glue (cold welding).

Note: sometimes stoves without a combustion door are made from disks of the same type (item 2 in the figure on the right), placing thin wood chips through the technical holes in the hub during combustion. But the stove turns out to be gluttonous and does not cook well. Why - see above.

When you can completely

A heating stove-potbelly stove made entirely of disks works well. The advantage in this case will be its large heat capacity and heat transfer time - the metal of the body is thick - although, of course, not the same as that of cast iron, and a slight increase in efficiency. The downside is the higher labor intensity of manufacturing improved furnaces with increased efficiency due to complex configuration housings.

If there is plenty of waste fuel, then a stove-stove made of disks for heating a small room can be made without internal partitions-dividers (see below) horizontally, pos. 1 in Fig. It is highly advisable to make such a furnace from the disks of a truck: firstly, a larger volume of the furnace will increase its efficiency and heat transfer time. Secondly, due to the complex surface of the disc rim, the heat-generating area outer surface may be one and a half to two times more than a simple round one of the same volume from a barrel or. The same circumstance, together with the high corrosion resistance of car wheel rims, makes it possible to equip the stove with a jacket for water heating, see for example. track. plot:

Video: potbelly stove made of discs with a jacket

Horizontal potbelly stoves are bulky, so vertical ones are often made. If we're talking about about a disk stove, then, firstly, you need to take care of a suitable grate and ash pan for it, see above. You can’t let coals and hot ash fall directly onto the fire protection area!

As for thermal properties, they can be improved in two ways. The first is when quick heating of the room is required, and the heat transfer time is not significant, for example, if the stove is placed in a garage. Then its upper, hot part is surrounded by an annular casing made of thin steel (not galvanized! Zinc melts at 440 degrees, and its vapors are poisonous!), with a gap of 40-60 mm, pos. 2 in Fig. The potbelly stove thus turns into a heater stove. But, by the way, a horizontal furnace-heater made of disks will be much more efficient, see below.

The second method is used when, on the contrary, it is necessary to increase the time of heat transfer after heating, for example, in a country house inhabited from spring to autumn. To do this, you need to line the stove in any available way with materials that combine high heat capacity and thermal conductivity. Soapstone (soapstone) stove stone is expensive, but fireclay brick (item 3) can completely replace it. As a last resort, you can put a heavier and denser wild stone on the hob, pos. 4. If the stove consists of 4 weight disks, the fuel burns out completely and the view closes by midnight, then in a tracksuit under an army blanket you sleep peacefully until 6-7 o’clock in the morning. You can get some sleep.

Let's improve the potbelly stove made of disks

It is possible to increase the thermal efficiency of any potbelly stove by installing cut-off partitions inside. This creates an afterburner chamber. In this case, the air casing, which converts the stove into a heater, also increases the efficiency of the stove.

Diagrams for constructing potbelly stoves made from disks are shown in Fig. The simple vertical one (item 1) is more compact, somewhat more efficient than the horizontal one (item 3) and provides a cooking surface, but installing an afterburner chamber cut-off device (item 2) in it is more difficult, because in this case, it must be welded to it along the entire contour adjacent to the furnace body. However, a vertical potbelly stove with a single-turn afterburner achieves an efficiency of slightly more than 60%. A simple horizontal potbelly stove (item 3) is the worst in all respects, but quite effective stoves are made on its basis. The leading value for the development of modifications is the smallest internal diameter of the fuel chamber d.

Note: To weld the body of a potbelly stove from car wheels, their hubs are completely cut out, see fig. on right.

Dimensional ratios for potbelly stoves made of disks with a single- and 2-turn afterburner are given in pos. 4 and 5. The efficiency of both is approx. 60%, but the 2-turn keeps it on junk fuel, and the single-turn requires quality to ensure the highest possible thermal efficiency. Cut the cutter (steel from 4 mm) exactly according to inner contour there is no need for a furnace body: you only need to select holes in its blank so that there is a gap between the cutter and the body wall of approx. 1.5 cm pos. 4a. Then the afterburner will become self-adjusting to the furnace’s progress (firing mode) and it will maintain efficiency close to maximum, both at low and full speed. A similar solution is used in Buleryan stoves, but for this purpose holes are punched in the cutter. In mass production, this is more profitable: the cutter is still cut out in one stroke of the press punch, and metallurgists willingly buy metal waste as a high-quality raw material for open-hearth furnaces. Well, at home it’s easier to leave a gap along the edges of the cutter.

A horizontal potbelly stove made of disks with an afterburner is generally comparable in efficiency to a Buleryan if it is equipped with an air casing with a slotted nozzle at the top and an air intake skirt at the bottom, pos. 5a. The casing should be adjacent to the body from the outside, and the resulting channels will act in exactly the same way as in the buleryan or stoves Engineer Butakov, Fire-Battery, etc.

Note: in the chimneys of highly efficient potbelly stoves made of disks (items 2 and 5), there must be a condensate collector with a drain valve, because the flue gases coming out of them are slightly warm.

Based horizontal stove From the disks you can make a full-fledged heating boiler, pos. 6. If you weld its flame body from KAMAZ disks, you can accelerate to a thermal power of approx. 40 kW, and this is enough to heat an ordinary residential building.

However, making the heat exchanger body from disks of the same size, pos. 1 in Fig., is irrational: then you will have to install a fire-tube heat receiver, pos. 2. It is better to weld the heat exchanger body from smaller disks, for example. from a passenger car. The temperature in it will then rise to values that allow the use of a water-tube heat sink. Of the preventive measures, it only requires an annual pressure test in order to pressurize the system before startup and inspect it after it.

A water-tube heat receiver is a thin, solid coil through which coolant flows. The distance between the branches is equal to the outer diameter of the pipe; The branches are arranged in a checkerboard pattern. You can make a water-tube heat receiver for the heat exchanger of a home boiler from disks from a copper tube with a clearance of 20 mm and a wall thickness of 2 mm. In this case, the input and output of the heat receiver into the heat exchanger is sealed by cold welding.

Oven partially made of disks

As components Autodiscs are widely used in sauna stoves. A sauna stove made of disks can be built entirely, but only for a barely average-level sauna. In a Russian bathhouse, the steam from any all-metal stove is harsh.

What a sauna stove built using car wheel rims looks like is shown in Fig. rights, and a complete diagram of its structure is given in Fig. below. The main thing that ensures the proper quality of steam in this furnace is the brick firebox. Autodiscs are used as a container for the contents of a closed heater and for the manufacture of a water heating tank.

Note: building a homemade sauna stove with an open heater is only possible special design entirely made of brick, ensuring complete combustion of the gases coming from the firebox, including carbon dioxide and water vapor, before they reach the heater. Branded metal sauna stoves with an open heater are made for this purpose from special materials using complex technology. If you try to repeat this on your own using ordinary materials, a cloud of soot will fly out of the heater with each addition of water.

This sauna stove has already been repeated by many who like to take a steam bath in their sauna. In general, everyone is happy; Only one permanent defect was noticed: the lower cutter (parts Strut and Reflector on the right in the figure) after a year or two becomes warped and comes off from the struts, or the struts from the body. The reason is obvious: different TKR steel of the specified parts and the body from the auto disk. To eliminate the defect, it is apparently necessary to make the cutter also from a smaller disk, for example, a passenger one. Most of the rim must be cut out, leaving 4 legs. Then heat the transition points between the rim and the hub and bend the legs to size.

There is no need to weld holes in the hub. Due to heat transfer to the body, the shutter will be slightly cooler than the flue gases. Since the hub is convex, a gas plug will form under it, like a gas plug in a bell-type stove, like in a bad garden stove made of disks, see above, and the flue gases will still flow around the bottom of the heater, as shown by the arrows in the diagram.

Combi option

Amateurs don’t have dozens of worthless wheel rims lying around in their garages, but wear out, as a rule, in pairs, either front or rear. In this case, in order to make a sufficiently efficient stove with a high firebox from the disks, a couple of disks will need to be supplemented with a piece steel pipe suitable diameter with walls from 6 mm.

The design of a furnace made of 2 disks from car wheels is shown in Fig. It does not differ in anything special from those described above. The same oven can be made horizontal. For the design of the burner, see above.

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Fire safety rules

It is very important to follow fire safety rules when making a stove. This will prevent unpleasant situations and injuries.

It is important to understand that a disk oven heats with infrared radiation. That is why it is recommended to perform shielding to convert the infrared flux into warm air. Shielding involves surrounding the stove with steel casing, which is installed so that there is a gap of 7-10 cm from the floor to the structure itself, as well as between the casing and the stove.

So, it is important to follow the following safety rules when operating the structure:

A steel sheet should be laid on the floor, or better yet - reinforced concrete slab. This must be done so that such a coating extends beyond the contours of the structure by 60 centimeters or more in each direction. This will prevent the room from catching fire if coal accidentally gets on the floor.
It is important to exclude any contact of the chimney pipe and the metal stove with flammable materials. Additionally, you can use insulating gaskets.
Before lighting the stove, you must make sure that there is draft in the channels. If not, you should first warm up the chimney using small amounts of burned wood or by cleaning the ash pan and the passages themselves.
It is highly recommended not to use liquid lighters, as this may cause fire to escape from the firebox opening.
When installing a stove in a bathhouse, it is recommended to do this so that the combustion part of the structure goes directly to the dressing room. This arrangement has a huge number of advantages, including it is more convenient to heat, smoke will not get into the steam room even in windy weather, the dressing room will also be heated.

Advice! If you want to make a stove in accordance with all the rules, you will additionally need wood hangers (large bolts and nuts are also suitable), iron sheets, pipe sections, cement-sand mortar, clay, steel channels and refractory bricks. And the body for the structure can be made directly from the wheel rims themselves.

Features of a wheeled stove

Metal stoves are found wide application, but they cost a lot, and sometimes you want to make it yourself. The simplest option is a metal barrel, but it has a small metal thickness and can burn through under high heat. A stove welded from a steel sheet of the required thickness will also be expensive. The best way is to make a stove from rims.

This design has a number of advantages: availability of free material; the discs are made of steel of sufficient thickness, which provides the necessary strength and reliability, and the metal itself can withstand prolonged heating without cracking or deformation; metal heats up easily and quickly when using any fuel; round shape with a central hole allows for optimal oven shape; different sizes disks (from different cars) allow you to find the right size for the entire structure; a wheeled stove transfers heat well into the room, which is important when using it for heating. .

Advantages and disadvantages

The disk furnace has the following advantages:

Materials for manufacturing are available everywhere, and even buying old disks will not result in serious financial costs;
Ease of manufacture of the device;
The finished stove has a sufficient safety margin for use over a long period of time;
The finished design does not take up too much free space;
Automotive steel demonstrates resistance to high loads, mechanical damage and deformation;
Can be used in conditions of high humidity;
The product is suitable for use with various types of fuel: wood, pellet fuel, charcoal and coal.

Let us focus on the fact that almost any stove made from wheel rims will be portable, which is very convenient in a private home or cottage.

Despite all the advantages, stoves of this type also have their disadvantages:

When installing the device directly on the ground, sufficient draft is not created to maintain fuel combustion, as a result, the burner often goes out;
The grill turns out to be too low, and without additional legs it is inconvenient to cook food on it;
Steel discs heat up too quickly and can cause serious burns if handled carelessly;
The steel cools too quickly, resulting in a large amount of fuel being required to maintain the desired temperature.

Due to their shortcomings, such stoves are practically not used as the main device for heating a house or cottage, but at the same time they are perfect for heating a bathhouse, technical rooms, and also for cooking.

Bake a friend on a hike and in the country

Don't be lazy - spend it 3-4 hours free time and become the owner of an amazing and very functional stove made from wheel rims. Its advantages are obvious:

light;
portable;
heats up quickly and releases heat;
budget;
any fuel is suitable for it;
does not burn out.

A mobile stove made from old wheel rims will become indispensable for use in a bathhouse. And if you build stove with space for a cauldron, the device will be a great addition to outdoor gatherings or meetings with friends in the country. By placing a cauldron on it, you can safely prepare delicious soup or porridge, and by removing the cauldron and placing a grate on top, you will get excellent kebabs.

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What you need to know about ovens

When making a stove from car rims, you need to be aware of one more circumstance. According to the rules for the construction of combustion furnaces using solid fuel from the firebox or grate, i.e. from where the fuel is placed, there must be at least 40-50 cm to the first vertical obstacle to the flow of flue gases (for example, the roof of the firebox) if conditioned fuel is loaded into the stove. If it is damp or waste, the specified distance should be increased to 60-80 cm; The heating time of the oven will then increase. The latter is unimportant for disk furnaces, because they warm up quickly.

The reason is that hot pyrolysis gases are released from solid fuel, which contribute a significant, or even decisive, share to the heat release. If pyrolysis gases come into contact with a less heated surface, they will not be able to burn out and soot will fall out. With further use of such a stove, it will become coked - dense carbon deposits will form on the roof of the firebox and in the chimney. It not only reduces the thermal efficiency of the furnace (analogous to efficiency in the furnace business), but is also a fire hazard.

Note: a high firebox for raw fuel is made so that the pyrolysis gases and water vapor have time to separate, and the former also burn out before reaching the roof. In this case, fuel is loaded to no more than half the height of the firebox.

Disk stoves are very often operated using waste fuel (rotten dried wood, damp scraps, etc.), but at the same time, there may simply not be enough unusable disks for a high stove, or the optimal stove design in this case (see below) ) will not allow you to make a high firebox. Then you can make a furnace from disks by using a non-standard grate made of steel sheet from 6 mm and reinforcing rods from 10 mm. There is no need to fear that there will not be enough air for combustion: through a hole with a diameter of 10 cm, with a chimney 1.5 m high, it will pass enough for a power of 18 kW for wood and 30 kW for coal. A furnace made of disks will never develop something like this.

Non-standard grate for a furnace made from car disks

The non-standard grate is simply inserted into the oven with a gap of approx. 6-10 mm, due to the difference in TKR materials, see above. This design has another advantage - it solves the problem of the ash pan, which is quite serious for disk furnaces. In this case, simply place a tin can with a diameter of 15 cm under the ash.

Note: horizontal furnaces made of disks (see below) are made without grate for the same purpose, i.e. the fuel burns on the stove floor, and the air flow is regulated by a throttle in the ash pan. The durability of steel for discs makes it possible to use such a solution.

Stages of work

First of all, you need to completely cut out the core of the discs using a grinder. You can leave it on the last, topmost disk.

Welding of furnace elements

After cutting out the core, we move on to welding. For welding you will need 5 mm electrodes.

First of all, it is necessary to weld the first disk to an iron sheet, which should be larger in size than the disk. This is necessary so that during combustion the fallen coals do not cause damage to the room, but if the potbelly stove made from wheel rims is used outdoors, then there is no need for this action.

If the stove is made for indoors, then the top disk already has a hole that can be used for a pipe, and the rest of the space can be sealed with an iron sheet.

You also need to weld all existing holes on the disks. Everyone decides for themselves how many disks to weld, depending on the size of the oven and for what purpose it is intended.

Firebox and ash pit

Next, it is necessary to cut a hole in the structure for the firebox, but this must be done at such a distance that there is room left for the ash pan. The photo shows how to make a hole for the firebox, but this stove is designed for street use, so there wasn’t much space left under the ash pan.

If you plan to make a stove for a bath from disks, then, accordingly, the stove will be higher and the firebox will be located higher. Basically, the hole for the firebox is made in the second disk from the bottom, and for the ash pan in the first. We do not throw away the sawn-off part from the hole for the firebox, as we will need it as a door.

Then we saw the same hole at the bottom for the blower. For traction, it will be enough to make a hole measuring 30 by 15 cm. If the stove is being made for an indoor space, then we also leave the sawn-off part, since it will serve as a door.

grate

For the grate, you need to find a grate that is suitable in size. If there is no grate, you can take a piece of strong iron in which holes should be drilled.

Doors

Next we move on to installing the door. To do this, you first need to weld the hinges to the hole prepared for the door, and then weld the door itself to the hinges. To make it convenient to open the door, you need to attach a handle to it. To do this, we will need either a metal drill and a bolt, or welding and any shaped handle that can be welded to the door. If you decide to make a handle according to the first option, then to do this, drill a hole in the door from the edge with a drill, the thickness of which should correspond to the thickness of the bolt or be slightly larger. We insert a bolt into it and tighten the nuts on both sides. With the help of a handle, it will be easier to open the door without getting burned.

Brazier made from wheel rims

Such a device using old wheels has many advantages, starting with ease of transportation and ending with the ability to maintain the required temperature inside the device due to free access of air.

This barbecue is convenient to use due to its optimal height. It is characterized by ease of movement, light and simple care and at the same time it has a high level of reliability and durability. We previously considered options for making a portable barbecue from steel sheets, as well as a folding device.

There are many ways to make homemade units from wheel rims. Let's consider the simplest of them, the manufacture of which will require a minimum of materials and effort. To install it, it is enough to seal the lower hole of the disk with a steel sheet or other material, for example, ceramic tiles.

But, despite all the advantages, this type of barbecue has some disadvantages. Among them the following are noted:

low location of the cooking surface;
if you install such a device directly on the ground, there will not be enough thrust to maintain the flame, which is why it may go out;
small volume of the combustion chamber.

In terms of ease of use, this design is equivalent to a regular camp stand for a brick skewer. For infrequent use, this model is quite suitable, but to make a more reliable and convenient unit you need to work a little more.

For such a barbecue you will need two wheels, as well as a set of tools and materials, including:

welding machine with electrodes;
grinder;
meter profile pipe;
fasteners in the form of bolts and nuts;
wire;
mask and gloves for personal protection.

There is nothing complicated in making a barbecue from two rims. Step by step it looks like this:

We cut out a fastening pad in one metal part using a grinder or an autogen. We weld two disks to each other along the entire circumference so that the remaining partition from the first, that is, processed, part is at the bottom of the structure.
Making the door. The presence of this element simplifies control of the intensity of the flame: firewood can be added without removing the dish from the grill. For accurate execution, at the beginning of work it is necessary to mark the correct location of the door on the side surface of the wheeled oven. It should be located a few centimeters above the bottom. A weld will pass through the middle of the rectangle, which represents the sash. Having finished marking, we begin to design the hole for the door, after which we process the edges of the cutout. Using bolts on one of the sides of the rectangle, you need to make hinges for easy opening and closing of the door. We weld nuts to the sash itself, which will fit onto the bolts installed in the body. The finishing touch is to create a door handle from another bolt. To do this, it is welded a few centimeters from the edge on the side opposite the hinges.
An important stage in the work is the manufacture of barbecue supports. The optimal height of the legs is 60-80 cm. To create them, a profile pipe is suitable, from which three identical sections of a certain length are cut. Next, they are welded to the furnace body at an equal distance from each other. To maintain the same angle of inclination of all legs, it is recommended to install them with emphasis on the side and partition. Compliance with these conditions ensures high stability of the structure on any surface.
On final stage Handles are made for easy transportation of the barbecue. It is recommended to place these elements in the middle of the structure on the sides of the door. Having outlined their edges, it is necessary to weld nuts to the body, into which handles bent from 8 mm wire are threaded.

An important nuance in creating a wheeled barbecue is the following: the bottom of the stove should not be welded with metal, as this will interfere with the creation of good traction. To optimize the work, you can cover the bottom with a metal mesh or make a grid of thick wire, building a kind of grate.

That's all, grill from a wheel rim ready. If desired, you can improve its appearance. To do this, the metal must be thoroughly calcined so that all remaining paint, gasoline and oil burn out. After this, you can start sanding the body, and finally coat it with black heat-resistant paint.

A potbelly stove made from car rims is a cheap and compact option

When deciding to make a metal stove with your own hands, you may encounter a number of problems. The first is to choose a suitable base, the very “body” of the future potbelly stove. An incorrectly selected barrel or cylinder, having too thin walls, can become a waste of time and effort, since with constant exposure elevated temperature thin walls will burn out or become deformed. When making a potbelly stove from sheet iron, the problem of high price will arise, since high-quality metal is not cheap. There is a great alternative that is both reliable and cheap. This is making a potbelly stove from old car rims.

Used rims from trucks will be an excellent material for making a potbelly stove.

Tip: You can find old rims in friends’ garages or try going to the nearest tire shop, where, if they don’t give them away for nothing, they will sell them at the lowest price.

The advantages of the wheeled design are quite obvious. Firstly, this is the availability of the source material, which is waste and often used disks are simply thrown into the trash. Secondly, the metal used in car wheels is of sufficient thickness, which will provide the future design not only with reliability, but also give it excellent immunity to constant exposure to elevated temperatures. At the same time, the thickness of the metal of the wheel rims has an optimal thickness, without being too thin and too thick, since the thick layer of metal is also not the most the best choice for a stove, since most of the energy from burning fuel will be spent on heating the thick walls. The third advantage of the discs is, again, the metal itself, since the alloy used heats up quickly, which ensures more economical fuel consumption. Another clear advantage of potbelly stoves made from wheel rims is their round shape and the presence of a central hole, which seems to be specially adapted to accommodate a chimney pipe. And the last advantage can be the variety of wheel rims in diameter, allowing you to create ovens of the required size for the needs of each specific room. The average oven usually has a diameter of about half a meter and to create with my own hands Potbelly stoves of this size are ideal for wheel rims from trucks.

Source materials

To create a stove from cauldron disks, you only need a couple of car disks. Moreover, it is highly desirable that these are stamped models, since alloy wheels are definitely short-lived. This is due to the fact that in alloy wheels present aluminum alloys.

Discs can be from both cars and trucks, but light-duty ones

Additionally, you will need the following materials: plates or profile pipe for the legs, wire, bolt, hinges for the door and a metal sheet to cover the bottom of the future furnace.

A cauldron stove requires a record minimum of materials:

Tools for creating a furnace
The list of necessary tools is also extremely short in content. This:
Welding machine.
Accordingly - electrodes.
A small "grinder".
Discs for cleaning and cutting.
Measuring and marking tools.
Heavy hammer.

Advantages and disadvantages

The advantages of using a stove made from car wheels include:

Low cost. The construction of a heating device does not require large investments Money, since its most material-intensive part is made from ownerless rims.
Durability and fairly long service life. In the production of car wheels, thick steel is used, which has high strength, so homemade unit It will surely serve more than one heating season.
High thermal stability. Considering the peculiarity of the steel alloy from which it is used to make car wheels, the device is able to withstand the effects of frequent and prolonged heating to high temperatures.
Heating speed. A device of this design can quickly heat up to the desired temperature, regardless of what type of fuel is loaded into it.
No size restrictions. To build a furnace, you can choose disks of a more suitable size and raise the structure upward not only from two, but also from three, four or more disks.
High heat transfer. Efficiency homemade stove of car rims reaches 80 - 85%.

However, potbelly stoves made from car wheels are, in fact, like other metal stoves:

unable to accumulate and retain heat for a long time. The metal body quickly gives off heat and cools down, so such a potbelly stove will heat the building only while wood or another type of fuel is burning in it;
require the installation of a high chimney pipe. To ensure a sufficient level of draft, it is necessary to construct a chimney with a height of at least 2 m;
should be regularly cleaned in all departments, and especially thoroughly in the chimney. Chimney pipe large diameter need to be cleaned at least once every 1.5-2 months. If its diameter is small, then this procedure should be carried out once a week.

What is good about a stove made from rims?

A stove made of wheels is capable of heating a room measuring 15-17 m2. It is used, despite the specifics of the selected materials, not only in the garage, but also to provide heat in other utility rooms and baths. The main advantage of the heating device is the availability and high quality of the material.

The discs are made of durable and thick steel, which ensures long service life. The quality of the wheels is in no way inferior to boiler steel in sheets and profiles.

In addition, a garage oven practically does not dry out the air, and metal does not emit harmful fumes at high temperatures. The environmental friendliness of the material is due to the fact that the discs are made of specialized steel that is resistant to corrosion.

Process of creation

Constructing a furnace device from disks with your own hands begins with converting the disks into the necessary structural parts.

Such metamorphoses begin with a disk, which will be the upper compartment of the furnace being manufactured

It is positioned so that the fastening part is at the top. Next, a circular hole is cut using a grinder along the mounting holes and the cut out contents are removed. The dimensions of the circle are determined in relation to the existing cauldron, which will make it possible to achieve the stability of this specific dish. The hole must certainly be perfectly round, and therefore all flaws are corrected immediately.

The disk for the lower compartment of the furnace device is installed with the mounting platform facing down. Then the top one is placed on it, and their mating edges are carefully welded in a circle.

The result should be a welded structural blank

Let's move on to the combustion chamber system. To create it, a rectangular fragment is cut out at the base. Its approximate dimensions in centimeters are ~ 20x12 (for rims from passenger cars). When marking the location of the combustion chamber, it is necessary to make an indent of ~ 2 cm from the lower edge of the disk. Such a trick is guaranteed to provide not only high structural rigidity, but also facilitates the operation of the firebox.

The disk fragment cut out for the combustion chamber is preserved. In the future, it will serve as an excellent firebox door.

After completing the operation of forming the combustion chamber, you can choose two options for the stove under the cauldron from disks. One of them is extremely simple, but the second will require some additional steps.

Option 1

This simplest option DIY stoves made from disks.

It is quite obvious that this option does not require any additional manipulations with the structure. The stove for the cauldron is completely ready for use even with the oven chamber open. However, the draft will have to be adjusted by covering the combustion hole with available materials, for example, a sheet of iron. A stand for this type of stove device is absolutely not needed and the structure can be located directly on the ground. But it should be remembered that such a simple variation consumes a larger amount of firewood.

Although for country trips such a lightweight option is the most optimal solution

Option 2

If desired and with due diligence, it is quite possible to make a more advanced model, and a stove for a cauldron made from wheel rims will look more presentable. An example would be the following:

This version contains additional elements designs that facilitate the operation of the furnace device and give it a more aesthetic appearance. This:

Firebox door. They are made from a previously cut fragment of the lower disk. It is processed, polished, and a fastening loop is welded. The handle of such a door can be a regular bolt.
Stability feet. To ensure reliability of the structure, several stability legs can be welded to the lower edge of the base disk. Sections of profile pipes or strip steel are quite suitable. If the cooking process is carried out indoors, then such an oven must be installed with its feet on a metal sheet. This stand will ensure fire safety.
Legs. If the option with stability legs is not particularly attractive, then the legs can be welded to the structure. This will allow you to raise the stove from the discs for the cauldron to a given height, which will clearly provide more comfortable cooking. Legs are usually made from profile pipes.
Pens. It is advisable to weld handles to the created stove structure. They will provide ease of portability. They can be made in small sizes, or they can be made in large curly ones. For handles, pieces of steel strips or wire rods are used.

It is noteworthy that neither the first nor the second option requires a chimney at all.

The finished stoves of both options must be melted and calcined in “idle” mode. This will reveal flaws in the assembly and completely remove the old paint.

It is quite obvious that a stove for a cauldron made from car wheels does not require any significant financial costs, materials or time, and is also elementary in its implementation.

Potbelly stove for a bath from accessories for wheels

The potbelly stove for a bath from accessories for wheels has some differences from other stoves. In particular, it is necessary to organize a container for water. To create the upper chamber you will need two rims. They need to cut out the central mounting plates using a grinder. Only the headbands remain

It is important to understand that water will be heated in this tank, so it is important to achieve a tight seal. Both rims are laid on top of each other and welded together

The top of the finished tank must be closed with a movable valve or metal lid. You can worry about safety and weld the product tightly, leaving a small sliding hole for pouring water. All that remains is to make the bottom of the chamber, for which you will need a metal plate.

Next, you need to cut holes in both the upper and lower parts of the tank according to the diameter of the chimney pipe. Then the pipe should be mounted and welded. A thin tube should be installed so that it is located at the very bottom of the tank at an angle to the floor. It should be closed with a tap. It will be used to drain the water.

It is important! At this stage, the structure should be checked for leaks. To do this, fill the tank with water and inspect it for leaks.

Particular attention should be paid to pipe cuts and seams. If there is a leak, be sure to drain the water, dry the tank, and then repair the cracks by welding

Now you can start developing the heater. To do this, you need to take the two remaining rims and cut out the core from one of them. Both products are installed on top of each other and welded so that the hub of the entire disk is in the middle. It will serve as a kind of sheathing. You need to pour stones on top of the resulting container. The lower part of the structure will become top part fireboxes

It is advisable to give preference to stones round shape, for example diabase, peridotite, basalt, jaldeite, dunite or gabbro-diabase. However, such material is quite expensive. Alternative option- look for stones near ponds. Preference should be given to dark-colored rocks that have a non-layered structure and are well hardened by the sun and moisture.

Worth knowing! From time to time the stones in the stove need to be replaced. This is due to the fact that the material tends to break down when exposed to high temperatures. This leads to the fact that smoke comes out of the homemade stove with difficulty, which negatively affects the functioning.

Next you need to organize a high-quality foundation. It must be not only durable, but also fireproof. A reinforced concrete screed is ideal, which is additionally lined with fire-resistant brick on top. Start creating the lower part of the future sauna stove only necessary after the base has dried. At this time, you need to prepare red heat-resistant bricks (approximately 60 pieces for a structure with 62x62 cm masonry). The bricks should be laid in a square, fastened with clay diluted with water. Be sure to leave a cavity for the blower, as well as a hole for the door. And on top of the masonry you need to install a grate.

All that remains is to assemble all the parts of the structure together. The metal part must be connected to the brick part, and the firebox and vent must be closed with manufactured doors. Next, you should weld the second piece of pipe to the central hole of the hub and sew it to the top of the chimney (we ran it through the water tank). Then you need to place large or medium-sized stones on the bottom and small stones on top of the heater.

In some cases, there is a need to strengthen the structure. Metal channels that need to be welded at a slight angle to the water tank and heater will help with this. The pipe itself remains to be led into the chimney, which must be lined with fire-resistant bricks, and closed with a damper. The great advantage of such a homemade stove is that it can heat a medium-sized steam room in just one hour.

That's all, the sauna stove is ready for use. This is a potbelly stove with a pipe, which will allow you to significantly save money, because now there will be no need to buy a ready-made structure. You can also pay attention to the drawings that will allow you to make a larger-scale homemade furnace from waste stamped disks.

Advice! The design always turns out to be standard, but you can add originality to it by beautifully decorating it. Photos of those people who have already made a stove from disks for a cauldron or for a bath will help with this. You can choose the most suitable option and implement it or dream up and create your own masterpiece.

Barbecue oven

If you intend to make a barbecue stove from disks, then the core does not need to be cut out. In this case, a grille is placed on the burner - a flame divider, which will act as a culinary grille-radiator. The main advantage of the design is that different temperature zones appear on the rasper, opening up wide possibilities for simultaneous cooking different dishes.

This is very convenient when going on a picnic, where everyone can get food to their liking. A stove of this type is usually made from disks with a small amount of technological holes. Bicycle spokes are used as parts for the working grid. It is not necessary to cook them, because they are perfectly fixed to each other and with the help of heat-resistant metal glue (cold welding method).

If you need to create a potbelly stove, you can use entire disks. Due to the thick metal, the heat capacity and heat transfer time are significantly improved, but they are much worse than in the case of cast cast iron stoves. Among the disadvantages of the design is the high labor intensity of arranging an improved furnace with increased productivity due to the complex structural configuration.

If you have a large amount of waste fuel, then when creating a stove-stove for a non-residential premises, you can refuse to use partition dividers. A similar option can be easily made from truck rims. This will allow you to achieve higher efficiency levels and more efficient heat transfer.

As a result, given the large size of horizontal potbelly stoves, most often people prefer vertical solutions. If the task is to make a stove from disks, then the first thing you need to do is find a suitable grate and ash pan

It is important to prevent coals and hot ash from spilling onto the fire protection area.

If we talk about thermal properties, they are significantly improved with the help of both tricks:

The first is to surround the upper heat part with a special annular casing made of thin steel, but not galvanized, since zinc can melt under the influence of a temperature of 440 degrees. The solution is indispensable in cases where quick heating of the room is required.
The second option involves lining the furnace with any available material that is characterized by high heat capacity and thermal conductivity.

Step-by-step manufacturing instructions

How to make a stove for a cauldron from wheel rims with your own hands, knowledge of the main stages of manufacturing this design will help solve this problem:

First you need to prepare the discs for welding. To do this, the front side is completely cut out on the top part. This is done to ensure free passage and uniform heat distribution in the cooking area. Similar work We do this with the middle part of the future oven. We leave the lower disk unchanged. To eliminate confusion, write on the parts with chalk the location of the parts.

Cutting out the front part

Place the bottom piece on flat surface face down. We place the middle part on it with the inside of the disk facing down. After checking its position, we make the 4th tacks after 900.

Place the 3rd part face down on the assembly and check correct installation parts and grab them in 4 places.

Once again, checking the assembly and location individual parts in a vertical plane, you can begin welding the structure. It is important to note here - do not completely weld one seam. To protect the parts from deformation, it is better to cook them step by step. After boiling small area at the 1st joint, rotate the structure 900 and weld a section of the seam on this side. Then proceed to welding the 2nd seam. So, alternating sides and seams, weld all the joints.
We beat off the slag and check the quality of the seam. If we detect lack of fusion, undercuts or holes, be sure to add molten metal to these places.
We put a cleaning wheel on the grinder and clean the seams and places where the front parts are cut.
Now it is important to make a good door for storing firewood. Stepping back 200 mm from the bottom of the stove, mark the window for the firebox; height –180 mm; width – 200 mm.

Using a grinder with a cutting wheel, we cut out the window along the marking lines. We will use the cut piece to make the door. To do this, we grab a wire with a cross section of 6-8 mm on 3 sides along the outside of the workpiece. On the hinge side in the middle of the window, we weld a part from a profile tube. We insert the rod for the loop into the second tube and grab it on one side.

Cutting out the door

We install the door in place, install the mating part of the hinge and weld the tube to the disk. We grab a ready-made curved U-shaped handle to the door and install a homemade latch from a rod and profile.

Example of a door (they can be made in different ways)

The resulting design

If required, mark and weld 3-4 legs at a slight angle. For better penetration, the ends of the workpieces must be cut at an angle so that the legs are flat against the stove.

"Legs" for the stove

On the opposite side of the door, at the top of the middle part, we mark the location of the chimney. Using electric welding, carefully cut a hole to the size of the pipe, insert the outlet so that the free end faces upward. The pipe should be flush with the metal of the wheel rim. We make 3 tacks, making sure that the part is in the correct position, and weld the joint in a circle.

We wind several turns of asbestos cord around the chimney and insert it into the outlet. The pipe should fit tightly, and the cord will prevent smoke from escaping at the junction.

Almost ready-made designs, all that remains is to attach the handles and clean the parts.

All parts are cleaned with a grinder; it is better to remove burrs from cuts with a file.
From the rod we make handles for carrying the stove. To do this, mark a distance of 50 mm on both sides of the workpieces and bend them at an angle of 900, holding the workpiece in a vice with a short section protruding upward. Bend it with a hammer. Then, at the top of the structure, on opposite sides, we mark the places where the handles are attached, align and weld them.

Our oven made from car rims is ready.

Additionally, you can watch the video:

Other examples of different homemade designs stoves made to order from disks in the photo:

Mini garden oven made from car rims

Owners of land plots of private houses and summer residents often build various barbecues, braziers, and so on for cooking outdoors. An excellent solution to this problem would be to make a garden stove from car wheels.

The product can be made in a universal configuration. You can fry shashlik on the stove, cook pilaf in a cauldron, and cook various foods on the grill.

Installing a garden stove is quite simple. You will need two car wheels. The central part of the front side is cut out in one disk. The disk is installed with the hole down. Legs are welded around the perimeter of the disk steel reinforcement large diameter or angle. A homemade grate is installed on the cut hole.

In the second disk, the front side is cut out almost completely, it is welded to the first disk. In the second disk (in the upper part) supports for installing the grille are welded. A cauldron (without a grate) can be installed on the supports. The grate is made of fittings or small diameter pipes.

A window for the door is cut out in the side surface. The metal door is secured using factory or homemade hinges; you can do it easier - hang it on steel hooks.

Garden stoves are manufactured in two versions - with or without a smoke pipe. A smoke pipe made from a piece of a meter-long pipe removes most of the flue gases into the channel, facilitating the process of cooking - a small part of the flue gases passes through the grate. When using raw firewood or wood chips during the combustion process, a large number of smoke. In this case, the construction of a chimney is mandatory. Otherwise, the dishes will become excessively smoked, and the food will acquire a strong smell of smoke.

To install the chimney, a hole of the appropriate diameter is cut in the side surface of the second (upper) disk. A pipe 200 - 300 mm long is welded to it. A steel outlet is welded to the pipe, to which a vertical chimney pipe is mounted. The joining of a branch pipe and a vertical pipe is sometimes carried out without a branch, through an oblique joint.

Oven for cauldron and shish kebab

The stove under the cauldron can also be used as a barbecue. This device can be made from just two disks from the wheels of a passenger car. If you need a larger design, then there are no restrictions here; you can use wheels from GAZ-53 and UAZ. The bottom is cut in one of them, and after the rim they are welded together. The unit must be installed securely on any surface; for this, the legs are attached to the lower section using a welding machine. The holes for the hub must be plugged, while the side holes are left, through which air will penetrate into the firebox. In order to make it convenient to carry the case, handles should be welded to the outside of it, and an opening should be made in the side to install the door. The latter must be made of a piece that is seated on the hinges. We can assume that the disk oven is ready. As practice shows, a cauldron can fit on it, and, if necessary, five skewers with meat.

What you need to know about ovens

If you intend to make a stove from wheel disks for a cauldron or heating a non-residential premises, be prepared to pay attention to one more feature. Based on the rules for the construction of solid fuel combustion furnaces, from the floor of the firebox or grate, t

That is, the place where the fuel product is placed should be about 40-50 centimeters from the first vertical obstacle to the flow of flue gases. This option is necessary when using conditioned fuel. If it is damp or waste, the distance is increased to 60-80 centimeters. In this case, the heating time of the furnace increases rapidly. Therefore, use such fuel for disk furnaces inappropriate.

It is no secret that hot pyrolysis gases can be released from solid fuel products, which significantly affect heat generation. If they come into contact with a less heated surface, they will most likely not be able to burn out, causing soot to fall out. Further use of such a furnace leads to its coking, dense carbon deposits appear on the roof of the firebox and in the chimney. It significantly reduces thermal efficiency, but is a fire hazard.

A stove made from disks is often filled with waste fuel, including:

rotten dry wood;
damp trimmings;
and other products.

True, there may simply not be enough unsuitable disks for a stove with a decent height, or optimal scheme design will prevent the possibility of creating a high firebox. In this case, to prepare the furnace, you will have to use a non-standard grate made of durable steel sheet with a diameter of 6 millimeters and reinforcing rods of 10 millimeters. Worry that permissible air not enough for combustion is not necessary: through a hole with a diameter of 10 centimeters, with a chimney 1.5 meters high, there will be enough air for 18 kW of power for wood and 30 kW for coal.

Bath stove

Wheels from passenger cars are not suitable for making a sauna stove - they are too small. The author of the idea, whose diagram is shown below, used 4 old rims from a ZIL-130 truck. Located one above the other, each of them performs its own function:

the first disk serves as a hood for the combustion chamber. As planned, the sauna stove has a small brick firebox with doors opening into the dressing room;
the second rim is a heater;
the third is an additional heat exchanger that takes the energy of the flue gases and transfers it inside the steam room;
the fourth disk is a tank for heating water.

Note. You can do without a brick firebox by organizing one inside the first rim. But then you will have to heat the sauna from the steam room, and it’s more difficult to make tight-fitting doors in the disk housing.

All additional metal parts required to assemble the stove are shown in the following diagram. A self-made sauna stove works on the following principle: wood burning in the firebox gives off heat through its walls and rim No. 1 with a cut out bottom. It is welded with a second disc where the bottom is left in place so it can be filled with rocks. Inside, a pipe passes through them with the combustion products leaving and heating the heater.

Next, the pipe falls inside the third rim, where a gas divider made of sheet metal is installed instead of the bottom. Combustion products wash the divider, and the disk sauna stove gives off more heat, since this section plays the role of an economizer. Well, the last stage of cooling the flue gases takes place inside the 4th rim, turned into a tank with a lid and a water tap. As a result, the stove works no worse than factory copies, and in terms of durability it will surpass any of them.

How to make a potbelly stove from rims

A potbelly stove made from wheel rims will be portable, which is very convenient, since such a design can be used as needed not only in the garage, but also in other rooms. It can be installed both horizontally and vertically. Both models have high heat transfer, and differ from each other only in the presence of grates and the location of the chimney pipe.

Materials

To build a potbelly stove, it is advisable to use parts from the wheels of cars or light-duty trucks. The disks from a multi-tonnage truck are too massive; a potbelly stove from them will turn out to be bulky and heavy. In such a design it will be difficult to ensure tight connections when joining individual elements.

In addition to the disks themselves, to assemble the stove yourself, you will need several additional materials:

reinforcement rods with a diameter of 20 - 24 mm;
steel corner;
sheet metal 4-5 mm thick;
heat-resistant paint;
several bolts and nuts;
pipe with a diameter of 100 - 150 mm and a wall thickness of at least 5 mm.

Tools

The set of tools required to build a potbelly stove from car rims should consist of:

welding unit and electrodes;
grinders (angle grinders) with a set of cleaning and cutting discs;
drills;
gas cutter;
sandpaper;
brushes;
sledgehammers;
hammer;
measuring and marking devices: chalk or marker, tape measure and ruler

To protect the surface of the body and eyes from harmful radiation from the welding arc, sparks and splashes, you need to work in special clothing, complete with a canvas suit and mittens, closed boots, a headgear under the shield, a welder's shield and goggles.

Step-by-step instruction

Device diagrams different models potbelly stoves made from car wheel rims

Drawing of a vertical model of a potbelly stove made of 4 wheels

When making a furnace from disks yourself, you must follow the following sequence of actions:

cut out the central part of all four disks with a grinder along with the hubs;

make two round plates from sheet steel, the diameter of which must correspond to the size of the disks;

cut a small square opening for the blower on the side surface, and make a door from the separated part of the metal. It is put on bolts welded to the body and secured with nuts. For ease of use, the door is equipped with a metal handle and latch;

Weld the walls of the two disks together. Cover the bottom of the lower disk with a metal plate and weld legs from a metal corner or fittings to it;

weld the two remaining disks together and cover the upper part with a circle of sheet steel;

cut an opening for the firebox in the lower disk of this part of the stove and install a door, similar to the blower door;

connect all parts of the body into a single structure;

install the grate. For these purposes, weld guides from a corner inside the combustion chamber and place on it a pre-welded structure made of sheet steel along the edges and reinforcement in the middle. The reinforcement bars must be positioned so that the distance between them does not exceed 2 cm, otherwise small firewood will fall through;

cut a round hole on the top surface of the device for the chimney;

if desired, you can arrange the chimney on the side so that you can use the top of the stove as a cooking surface, it will look like this:

lower the chimney pipe into the upper hole and weld;

clean all irregularities and defects on the surface of the device;
paint the finished device with heat-resistant paint.
Potbelly stove made from wheel rims - ready!

When making such a potbelly stove, you need to take into account that the special composition of the steel alloy of the wheel rims is not standardized for welding work. Therefore, when connecting disks, you must follow the following rules:

welding only two mating parts is allowed at a time; assembling the entire device at once is prohibited;
after a seam has formed, parts with welded edges must be left alone for about 3 - 5 minutes so that the residual internal stress resolves;
the surface of the weld should be free of any visible defects: cracks, splashes, shells or bubbles.

Preparing tools

If you decide to make a hearth for a cauldron or a regular stove using car wheels, then you need to take care of the availability of tools, among them the following should be highlighted:

welding machine;
electric drill;
chisel;
sledgehammer;
disks;
paint brush;
ruler;
grinder;
hacksaw for metal;
hammer;
file;
pliers;
roulette

It is noteworthy that almost any of the disk-based models made will be portable, which is very convenient, because this design can be used in a bathhouse or on the street. Best used steel diameter which varies from 40 to 50 cm. Their height can be 25 cm. The hearth for a cauldron, like a sauna stove, cannot be made of aluminum disks, or those made from aluminum alloys.

The most complex version of a potbelly stove made from disks with your own hands is considered to be a heating structure for a bathhouse. It is used to create a medium-sized sauna with heated, moist air. The sauna stove is based on a brick firebox.

Structure heating system somewhat more complicated than a simple horizontal potbelly stove made of disks, but it’s quite possible to do it yourself.

First, a brick firebox is laid. When calculating the dimensions of the masonry and foundation, they are based on the diameter of the wheels. As a rule, ordinary wheels are used passenger cars, therefore the dimensions of the firebox are on average 625x625 mm. There should be a cast foundation underneath it.

Functionally, the firebox is divided into 2 parts, so you need to think through the laying in advance. Must come from below cold air from the locker room, throw solid fuel materials from above.

Drawing of a disk stove for a bathhouse.

After the firebox has been built, welding of the structure begins. It consists of 4 discs. At the bottom, struts and a reflector are installed for uniform and smooth air flow, as well as high-quality heating of the container.

The third disk is welded so that stones can be placed inside, and a metal pipe is installed in the center to remove smoke. The third and second disks are connected by legs to fix the structure. The smoke transmission pipe is attached to the bottom of the third wheel.

An air divider is installed in the second disk on top, which is necessary for heating the water. The divider is mounted on 2 metal legs. The upper disk is a reservoir for supplying warm water. A pipe of a convenient length is attached to it, and a faucet is also mounted.

There is a pipe in the center to remove smoke. The chimney is fixed to the supporting platform with struts. Under the support platform there is a sheet of galvanized iron.

This is a general scheme for welding a furnace from disks. Let's take a closer look at the nuances of creating individual parts of the structure.

Water container

The water tank is made of one wheel. To do this, you need to weld the bottom and top so that there is a hole in the center corresponding to the diameter of the pipe, standard - 16 cm

It is also important to make an even and accurately executed seam, otherwise water will leak out of the container, and the reliability of the structure will be called into question.

After welding the container, you need to weld the pipe and check the quality of welding by filling it with water.

For complete and high-quality heating of water and stones, each intermediary disk must contain a divider or reflector. A heater is a container with a pipe in the center to remove smoke. It is necessary to completely weld the bottom, install the pipe and attach the container to the top of the firebox.

A pipe is attached to the third disk - the upper part of the firebox - using casings, and an air divider is installed inside to heat the tank.

Foundation and brickwork

The foundation of the stove should be monolithic and extend slightly beyond the boundaries of the firebox. The average dimensions of the foundation are 700x700 mm. The firebox is divided into 2 equal parts: at the floor level of the locker room, from where fresh air is supplied, and at the steam room level, where solid fuel materials are thrown in.

In both cases, metal doors are attached, and a combustion structure is installed between the levels.

Stove assembly

Scheme of the furnace in production.

Assembling the stove should begin with laying the firebox and welding the elements. First, the internal parts of the structure are installed - the divider and the air reflector, then the bottoms are welded to the structures for water and stones.

Then the smoke exhaust pipes are installed, after which the remaining elements are attached to each other. After complete assembly of the structure, it is necessary to carry out a mandatory test run of the furnace.

A properly welded stove will not allow smoke to pass through and will ensure uniform heating of the containers. High-quality masonry will ensure constant air circulation, which promotes rapid heating and long burning.

Features of a disk stove for baths and saunas

For baths and saunas, the stoves are made higher and equipped with pipes. This is what this type of oven will look like.

When making a stove for a bath, you need to consider several points:

The discs are metal, and this material gets very hot, so it is necessary to make brickwork around the stove itself to protect the walls from fire.
Welding seams should be approached very carefully. If the seams and existing holes are poorly welded, the sauna stove will smoke and let sparks pass through.
In order for a stove made of disks for a bath or sauna to last longer, it must be covered special materials, protecting against corrosion and rust.
When making a stove, you need to provide an additional tank where the stones will be located. In the photo, such a reservoir is located on the second disk.
To keep the stove hot longer, you will need a valve. For it you need to make a small cut at the very top. The valve must completely block the hot air outlet.

This stove made from car wheels can only be used outdoors.

How to make a stove from disks for a sauna with your own hands

First of all, the discs need to be prepared: cleaned of debris, rust or paint residues using sandpaper. After this, you can begin manufacturing the structure, following the stages of work in the specified order.