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Heat Gun “Draft Inducer”
“Whenever we started a fire in our kitchen wood stove, it wouldn’t pull a draft. Smoke would pour out and fill the house. So I used a heat gun to make a ‘draft inducer’ to solve the problem,” says Dan Dodge, Camano Island, Wash.
He bought a 1,500-watt heat gun from Harbor Freight and then added a 10-in. length
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Heat Gun “Draft Inducer” FARM HOME Miscellaneous “Whenever we started a fire in our kitchen wood stove it wouldn’t pull a draft Smoke would pour out and fill the house So I used a heat gun to make a ‘draft inducer’ to solve the problem ” says Dan Dodge Camano Island Wash He bought a 1 500-watt heat gun from Harbor Freight and then added a 10-in length of thin-wall conduit to the end of the gun He then cut an oval hole in the stove pipe elbow to slip the gun in and made a flapper valve out of sheet metal to cover the hole after removing the gun “Before starting the fire I put the heat gun in the stove pipe and turn it on for 5 min Then I start the fire Once it’s drafting good I remove the heat gun and close the flapper valve ” says Dodge “I’ve been using this method successfully for a year now and don’t know of anything on the market that’s so simple to make and use ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Dan Dodge 630 Dodge Rd Camano Island Wash 98282 ph 360 387-0727
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