Building a gas Tiki Torch

No experience with them, but if I were doing it I'd buy one unit to save the design work and then clone it exactly. Of course if you don't already have a well equipped metal working shop you aren't going to save any money since a number of the parts are not off the shelf items.

Pete C.

I was tinking about either getting some funnels in the approximate size, or simply making a wooden form over which I could shape the torch body, and then braze it closed. Then an appropriate bottom plate and the burner -- that's the challenging part. I'm not sure whatt he burner entails. It just seems to me as I look at them that there really isn't $200 worth of "stuff" or proprietary technology. If they were in the $60-$75 range, I'd be all over it.

Pete C. wrote:

It ought to just be some sort of venturi nozzle, and a baffle to spread the flame around, all wrapped in a shade to keep the wind from blowing the thing out.

You could probably make something workable with a propane torch head, a metal tea-strainer, and a soup can.

True,

I hadn't really considered any shape other than the typical tapered cylinder. I was getting held up on that rather than considering the actual burner and flame holder.

I would think that the burner needs to be little more than some small jet to allow the natural gas to pass through at residential gas pressure (~4 inches of water -- I'll verify) and a flame holder which looks to be little more than a perforated metal cup.

Thanks for helping unblock the brain!

Goedjn wrote:

Did anyone make these? I'm interested as well!!