 Okay guys so today we're gonna start cutting this tank up so we can build our stove. If you haven't watched how to clean this out I'll put an end card at the end of this video and in the description so you can watch that first before you go cutting on these tanks. So let's go ahead and start cutting the hole in this. I've got me a piece of cardboard here and I'm gonna tape it on here this is gonna be for my door. I'm just going to use this as a template. I've got a line drawn across here because there's a weld spot where this tank was put together right here so I know that's perfect so I'm gonna just kind of tape it there and that's why I drew that line across there so I can line it up with that line and it'll be somewhat square. Don't have to be perfect it's just a little stove okay. Now I'm going to trace around this and then we'll cut it out just like this can you see that? Now you get the idea just trace your trace your line because you're gonna want it to be somewhat cut pretty pretty straight you know so your door opens and closes pretty good just like that and then if you want you can fill in where your tape was don't really have to if you're good enough with your grinder you can just slice right across there. Let's get to cutting. Okay guys let's make a little noise now I'm gonna do that all the way around I'm not gonna bore you with it. There's one now we got to make some vent holes down here I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make it like that about that big and I'm gonna make it slide so I can slide over my vent holes something like you know like this but I'll be using stainless steel for that so there's our door now I'm gonna put change my wheel and I'm gonna smooth this all off so it's not so sharp okay and then we'll put a we'll put a hinge on it so we can open it. Alright so we've got this cleaned up kind of rounded the edges a little bit so it's not so sharp got this all cleaned up in here like this now we're gonna put we're gonna put a hinge over here and we're gonna put a little a little handle that'll lock it and we want to make sure it doesn't go all the way in so we're gonna have to come up with something like you know to hold that from going all the way in okay so that's kind of kind of what it's gonna be like right there just like that so that way we can open that up so let me go see if we can find a hinge then we'll go from there. Alright I got some holes marked a couple holes I'm only gonna put two two bolts in each one of these so I'm gonna drill these out I'm gonna try to use a nail as a center punch I don't know if it work but I've got punches in there but they're not center punches. Alright so let me get my drill to remember guys if you're doing this don't worry about if it's not perfectly straight or anything like that if you're gonna be using it if it's a showpiece that's a little different but I don't know about you but I'm gonna be using mine even just for the hell of it sometimes so let's try to drill a couple holes in here now let's change our drill bit I don't know what that sound was it didn't sound good though and put my foot on there just in case let's see if our bolt will fit in there yep do this next one here now I'm gonna have to do the same thing to the hinge I'm gonna have to make two of those holes bigger okay so let's see how they work okay they look pretty good now let's try to make these bigger that's why I need a vise or a drill press if you guys have one you're not using let me know stuck a couple bolts in here and see what we got I've got these a lot of people call a lot of guys come stove bolts okay damn it screens upside down so I'm gonna try to put these in there let's see they're gonna stick out a little bit but I'm not worried about that see I really don't care about that because like I said this gonna be used I've got different bolts in there but I don't like I don't like the looks of them I like these and I'll probably I'll probably cut them off too once I get the get them on here and get them tightened down then I'm gonna do the same thing on our tank here or what's gonna be our stove you know get this up here where it needs to be I'll drill my two holes out now as you can see there's a little bit of a gap there I'll have a little bit of a gap I'm not worried about that gap either okay so let's just get it on here and see how it looks first all right so let me do that and then we'll drill these two holes out and that hole is way off guys way off no biggie let's fix that so that was totally my fault I think the drill walked on me when I started drilling that one and screwed it up but you can see it's not opening real well so I may have to slide them over a little bit more to get this to open okay so let me get that adjusted we'll have our door pretty much on other than the latch I think I'll just slot these holes out that way so I can pull it out some more okay guys so we got the door on all we got to do is put a latch on and the door will be finished and then we'll put our vents down here this gap here will be filled in with some stainless steel so I'm not worried about that so we'll we'll make our latch tomorrow but I think right now we should try it out I mean it's good enough to put a fire in there right let's give that a shot of course I still got to put a stack on this thing but it's gonna go back here because I'm gonna put something across the top so I can cook on this thing whenever I want to fortune won't stay lit but I think it's going enough and of course I still got to make a grate for that so the wood can set on so it doesn't get smothered that's no biggie of course that hole in the top's kind of small so but like I said I'll put a stack a bigger stack you know about three inches in diameter or whatever so that's hot already that's very hot already you got seeing there with all the smoke and bring you over here yeah that's pretty cool then we'll probably put make it make a couple little legs for it or something but it's all in time alright guys I'm gonna let that catch and I'll be back with you in a minute alright guys there it is once we get the vents down in the bottom it'll burn really well down across there and we'll have to get a stack for the top like I said and get put a grate in there so your wood can step off the off the floor but other than that will be good so it's not done yet might be probably a couple more parts to this video but I thank y'all for watching I appreciate it and tune in when I get on to step actually step three right of building this little stove so she better the myth the man legend I'm gone for now guys bye bye take care