Brake drum pot belly??? Ideas....

Hi All,
Wanting to build a heater from 3 Truck brake drums I have as it gets cold outside but I still want to entertain when the weather gets near 0 Degrees C.
I have seen a few some time ago but Want Max efficiency, any thoughts or plans would be great, Fabrication is not an issue, thanks in advance.

Hi Boatbrewer - welcome to HomemadeTools.net :welcome:

Good question, I'm going to move this discussion into our Tools in Progress subforum so that you can get some good ideas.

Interesting idea. I await others opinions on this. I'm not sure which drums from what vehicle would work.

Here are a couple of brake drum heater builds:

Brake Drum Heater by Plushy on WoodWorkForums.com

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Brake Drum Heater by dngspot on TractorByNet.com

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...um_heater1.jpg

G’day just thought I’d share mine. I’ve written a bit of a “how to” at https://www.instructables.com/id/Bra...tbelly-Heater/

Hope this helps. It also has some information reagarding the heat produced.

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Originally Posted by doily_grunge

G’day just thought I’d share mine. I’ve written a bit of a “how to” at https://www.instructables.com/id/Bra...tbelly-Heater/

Hope this helps. It also has some information reagarding the heat produced.

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Nice Instructables post...well written and good details. Big drums on this side of the pond are getting harder to find for some reason.

Great build, Thanks for sharing doily_grunge!

PJ

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