Rat Smoker Exhaust Cooler?

[Mat Watson 3]

Hello All.

Im looking for ideas on how to cool the smoke from a chainsaw exhaust and remove any chance of sparks or hot gasses catching light to the bales at work.

So far we've had great success with a paint tin filled with water and "2 of gravel with the exhaust threaded into the bottom of it one side and another hose coming out the lid.

It works well in taking any heat away from the smoke but its aquard to carry round and tends to put quite abit of back pressure onto the small saw engine?

Any other ideas?

 

Many thanks, Mat

[buster gonads 862]

Matt, just use a long piece of rubber tubeing on the exhaust, i would think you could go as long as you like, by the time the smoke exits the pipe the heat should have gone through the walls of the tubeing, i only use about 2ft and have no issues regarding setting fire to straw, i do braze a piece of pipe on the exhaust for the tubeing to fit over though, by the way i use a Ryobi motor off an hedge trimmer, iv used others but find this one to be the bizz, atb, buster.

[marko 30]

i use a 3 ft piece of heat resistant rubber the stuff is easy to get from car part shops i have a small piece of copper or any other tubing coming of the exhaust say 6 inches then the rubber and then a piece of aluminium tubing all jubilee clipped together like this.

[Mat Watson 3]

Thanks for the replys,

I will try a longer peice of hosing, its more for peice of mind that we use the paint tin contraption.

[buster gonads 862]

Dont know if it makes a difference mat but i use hydrolic rubber hose, its thick so may be re-enforced, buster.