hey guys I’m a welcome back to the
workshop everyone loves a good bonfire
whether it’s hot or cold outside but
sometimes it doesn’t make sense to
really get a giant fire going the
purpose of today’s video is to see if we
can build a portable tabletop fire pit
that we can move around with us this is
a slightly more complicated build than
some so we do have quite a few parts
that are going to be working with for
the main body of the fire pit we have
this medium-sized plastic container and
a metal pie tin as the fuel for our
tabletop fire pit we have this little
canister of propane butane mix usually
these are for powering camping stoves
when you go hiking
speaking of camp stoves we have a small
one of those we bought on Amazon that
we’re going to disassemble to use as a
regulator to get the fuel out of our
tank we have a bunch of paint sticks
that are going to use to decorate the
outside of our container once everything
is built then we’ve got some of these
blue glass beads that we can use as a
decorative element to make the top of
our fire pit look a lot nicer for the
workings of our fire pit we have some
quarter inch copper tubing and some
copper fittings as well as a small piece
of 3/8 inch vinyl tubing the rest of
what I have here is hardware and
supplies to attach the other pieces
together and I’ll go over those as I get
to them we’ve got all of our supplies
and equipment ready let’s start building
the first step in building is actually
going to be disassembling some of the
parts that we have our plastic container
has a lid and a latch that we aren’t
going to need so let’s just take them
off
now let’s take the camp stove out of the
box and break it down to just the parts
that we need pretty neat little stove
collapses down really small now what we
want is this orange part down at the
bottom that works as regulator for the
fuel the rest of this stove we actually
aren’t going to use just by grabbing
this top part I’m able to twist and this
will unscrew from the regulator that’s
done everything else is sort of
connected to it there’s also this little
brass nozzle at the tip of our stove and
that helps regulate the speed at which
the fuel comes out normally that’s a
good thing but we want the fuel to come
out a little bit faster than this nozzle
is designed to allow so let’s remove it
as well let’s secure that in the vise
now I’m just gonna take a pair of pliers
that is pretty stuck on there but is
removable it’s enough force pull these
really tiny
I can’t tell maybe they’re brass rods or
brass beads they’re super little now we
have the piece of the regulator that we
want to use on our fuel canister this
regulator just screws right down onto
our fuel canister and then we can open
and close it as we like at this point if
we twist this handle right here fuel
will start coming out but I don’t really
just want to spray propane and butane in
the air so I’m not going to do that at
the moment we’re going to want our metal
pan to be nice and secure in its
attachment to our plastic container but
we don’t want it permanently affixed
because that would make it impossible to
switch out the fuel if we run out what
we’re going to do is we’re going to take
four of these metal brackets and we’re
going to have a magnet attached to the
top of each one of them we also have an
assortment of these small machine bolts
and we’re going to use these to attach
the magnets permanently to the brackets
and then we’ll also use them to attach
the brackets to the plastic container
with the magnet on the bracket one of
those screws passing through the magnet
and the bracket going to attach a washer
and then a nut to keep it nice and
secured in place
feels nice and secure now let’s do the
same thing for the other three brackets
now we need to attach our four brackets
at four equal points around our plastic
container with those four points marked
on the side of the plastic container
let’s drill four small holes one at each
point just large enough for our small
screws to fit through it’s fun little
spiral plastic pieces I’m trying not to
press too hard because I really want it
to cut through the plastic rather than
breaking through at the end now we
should be able to line our brackets up
with those holes and attach the screw
right in place to help make sure the
screws don’t damage the plastic I do
have some rubber washers that I’m going
to use I just want to make sure I don’t
crack through the side of the plastic
when I tighten down the bolts the head
on these screws is pretty small and if I
try I can actually pass it through the
rubber washer so I’m going to be using a
regular washer first and then the rubber
washer
[Music]
that’s lately attached
I’m not going to tighten it down quite
yet so at the moment this bracket can
still move around fairly freely let’s
attach the other three the same way
there we go we’ve got all four brackets
loosely attached to our plastic
container and here’s why we didn’t
anchor those down really firmly yet I
want to make sure that they all sit
perfectly level with each other let’s
take our plastic container flip it
upside down and secure it to the bottom
of our metal pan we can just as easily
flip it right side up and we can get a
good look at how this is going to work
and you can see that the magnets are
providing a really strong attachment
which is just what we want with our
magnets attached to the bottom of the
pan we know that all four are sticking
up from the plastic container the same
amount we’re not going to end up with
three of them in contact and one of them
with a small gap with our brackets
measured out so we know they’re at the
right height let’s tighten down the
bolts there we go
at this point we should be able to pull
our pan off our brackets will stay in
place and now we know that we put our
pan back on it will be in good contact
with all four brackets at once and it’s
very well attached but we can still take
it off and we need to to change out the
fuel the next step is we’re going to
prep our copper tubing and how it’s
going to attach to our metal pan the
tubing will be coming straight up the
middle of our plastic container so let’s
drill a hole in the center of our pan to
let it come through to find the center
of this pan I’m going to just try and
balance it on the tip of a pen until
it’s staying in one spot that’ll let me
know where the middle of the pan is
there we go we’ve got a balance point if
we’re off by a couple of millimeters
here there it’s really not gonna make a
difference so this point will work we
want to drill a hole that’s big enough
that the widest part of our quarter inch
copper elbow fitting will fit through
the hole it’s so close so you can see
that the drill bit fits inside the
copper fitting right there which makes
sense because it’s designed to fit 3/8
inch pipe here let’s try the next size
up it might be too large definitely big
enough but it’s really a lot more than
we want so I think let’s take our 3/8
inch drill bit and then we’ll just sort
of wiggle it around inside the pan a
little bit to open up the hole
[Applause]
[Music]
here we go
beautiful our copper fitting now fits
through that hole let’s look at the
layout we’re gonna want for our copper
pipes our vinyl tube fits perfectly into
this three-eighths to 1/4 inch copper
adapter it’s a pretty snug fit too so
I’m really not worried about any gas
leaking out of it the fuel will travel
up the tube through this copper fitting
we’ll have another piece of copper
connecting these two then we’ll have
this elbow which will run out another
straight piece of copper tube connected
to that will be a second elbow we’ll
have a nice tight circle of copper
tubing that comes back to about right
here to be finished off with an end cap
let’s start by bending the copper tube
that we need in our circle and cutting
that off I got this copper pipe at
Lowe’s it came in a coil about three
maybe four feet long and a cardboard box
I think it was about five bucks copper
is very flexible which makes it easier
to bend into a circle but you do have to
be careful because if you bend it too
aggressively
it will kink in the middle and then the
gas won’t be able to flow through the
piping well I want a nice clean edge to
start our copper pipe so first I’m just
gonna cut this off using a hacksaw
should want to be pretty gentle putting
in the vise because since copper is so
soft it could very easily get squished
in the vise here I just want it to hold
it in place
there we go we have a much cleaner edge
on this now let’s just take a file and
clean it up a little bit more – if we’ve
cut the end of our pipe off nicely it
should fit into the end of our elbow
piece perfect with the end of our pipe
cut we now want to bend it into a circle
with a diameter of four to five inches
you can see that the copper pipe is
fairly easy to bend even with just your
hands you can also see that as unbending
it it is getting narrower than it is
when it’s unbent this is what I meant
when I said you have to be careful if
you were to bend it too hard we would
get a kink in the pipe there we go I
think that’s bent into a pretty good
circle it’s fairly tight it hasn’t
kinked too badly I do have one spot here
where it started to smash the tube I’m
going to see if I can use a pair of
pliers and get that out a little bit it
shouldn’t cause any problems it’s
definitely still wide enough that the
gas can flow through it but just to make
it a little bit nicer see if we can
bring that back out a little okay I
think that popped out a little bit now
we want to cut off the excess of our
copper pipe let’s do that right about
there I didn’t really like using the
vise on the copper I thought it was
pinching it a little too much so I’m
just gonna try and hold it down using
this wooden block in my own bodyweight
of course I should be using a pipe
cutter rather than a hacksaw but I don’t
have one let’s just use our file and
clean up that edge a little bit alright
and our cap fits nicely on the end of
that now we need to cut off a section of
our quarter inch copper pipe to connect
these two pieces there we go that’s a
pretty nice straight section of pipe so
we’ll cut out the rest of our fittings
from that part
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
we’ve got our little fitting of course
let’s take our file and clean it up so
it fits nicely into both of our pieces
that it looks good there we go both
pieces are fitting just the way we want
them to with our regulator in place our
3/8 inch vinyl tubing should fit very
snugly over the nozzle in fact it’s snug
enough that when I twist it I can get it
to fit down onto the threads and that
actually helps tighten it into place the
reason I’m using vinyl tubing instead of
metal hardware is that I could not find
any other metal hardware that fit nicely
onto this thread it seems to be a size
that doesn’t conform the standard
threading so clearly we have way more
tubing that is going to be necessary in
fact I think we want to cut it down so
it’s only about three quarters of an
inch tall
[Music]
it’s nice and snug into our copper there
we go
and if we drop that down into the bottom
of the container we can see how long of
a fitting we need to connect from the
source of the fuel up into our metal Pam
I’m gonna do a little test I cut this
one-inch piece to connect our elbow into
our circle I’m gonna see if that’s close
to the right size to connect these other
two pieces this length of pipe does seem
to be working but this particular piece
of pipe is only barely inside this
connection point so I’m going to measure
this pieces length and then cut another
piece that’s about 1/4 inch longer
[Music]
[Applause]
all right fits there pretty nicely
magnets looks like it fits there great –
that looks like a perfect fit we’ve now
got all of our pieces cut out shaped and
ready to assemble so come back tomorrow
it will show you how to permanently
attach them all together and form them
into a beautiful tabletop firepit thanks
for joining us for the first half of
this video don’t forget to come gear
yourself up with products and merch at
the king of random calm
see you there Hertz in the meantime
remember in the meantime rip remember I
can’t say the word remember hey guys
thank you for your comments so many of
you have really interesting suggestions
for projects and experiments and we love
testing those out for you I also wanted
to say thank you for the great feedback
you’re leaving for me and my team
because we are all in this together
so thank you for being on our team
workshop everyone loves a good bonfire
whether it’s hot or cold outside but
sometimes it doesn’t make sense to
really get a giant fire going the
purpose of today’s video is to see if we
can build a portable tabletop fire pit
that we can move around with us this is
a slightly more complicated build than
some so we do have quite a few parts
that are going to be working with for
the main body of the fire pit we have
this medium-sized plastic container and
a metal pie tin as the fuel for our
tabletop fire pit we have this little
canister of propane butane mix usually
these are for powering camping stoves
when you go hiking
speaking of camp stoves we have a small
one of those we bought on Amazon that
we’re going to disassemble to use as a
regulator to get the fuel out of our
tank we have a bunch of paint sticks
that are going to use to decorate the
outside of our container once everything
is built then we’ve got some of these
blue glass beads that we can use as a
decorative element to make the top of
our fire pit look a lot nicer for the
workings of our fire pit we have some
quarter inch copper tubing and some
copper fittings as well as a small piece
of 3/8 inch vinyl tubing the rest of
what I have here is hardware and
supplies to attach the other pieces
together and I’ll go over those as I get
to them we’ve got all of our supplies
and equipment ready let’s start building
the first step in building is actually
going to be disassembling some of the
parts that we have our plastic container
has a lid and a latch that we aren’t
going to need so let’s just take them
off
now let’s take the camp stove out of the
box and break it down to just the parts
that we need pretty neat little stove
collapses down really small now what we
want is this orange part down at the
bottom that works as regulator for the
fuel the rest of this stove we actually
aren’t going to use just by grabbing
this top part I’m able to twist and this
will unscrew from the regulator that’s
done everything else is sort of
connected to it there’s also this little
brass nozzle at the tip of our stove and
that helps regulate the speed at which
the fuel comes out normally that’s a
good thing but we want the fuel to come
out a little bit faster than this nozzle
is designed to allow so let’s remove it
as well let’s secure that in the vise
now I’m just gonna take a pair of pliers
that is pretty stuck on there but is
removable it’s enough force pull these
really tiny
I can’t tell maybe they’re brass rods or
brass beads they’re super little now we
have the piece of the regulator that we
want to use on our fuel canister this
regulator just screws right down onto
our fuel canister and then we can open
and close it as we like at this point if
we twist this handle right here fuel
will start coming out but I don’t really
just want to spray propane and butane in
the air so I’m not going to do that at
the moment we’re going to want our metal
pan to be nice and secure in its
attachment to our plastic container but
we don’t want it permanently affixed
because that would make it impossible to
switch out the fuel if we run out what
we’re going to do is we’re going to take
four of these metal brackets and we’re
going to have a magnet attached to the
top of each one of them we also have an
assortment of these small machine bolts
and we’re going to use these to attach
the magnets permanently to the brackets
and then we’ll also use them to attach
the brackets to the plastic container
with the magnet on the bracket one of
those screws passing through the magnet
and the bracket going to attach a washer
and then a nut to keep it nice and
secured in place
feels nice and secure now let’s do the
same thing for the other three brackets
now we need to attach our four brackets
at four equal points around our plastic
container with those four points marked
on the side of the plastic container
let’s drill four small holes one at each
point just large enough for our small
screws to fit through it’s fun little
spiral plastic pieces I’m trying not to
press too hard because I really want it
to cut through the plastic rather than
breaking through at the end now we
should be able to line our brackets up
with those holes and attach the screw
right in place to help make sure the
screws don’t damage the plastic I do
have some rubber washers that I’m going
to use I just want to make sure I don’t
crack through the side of the plastic
when I tighten down the bolts the head
on these screws is pretty small and if I
try I can actually pass it through the
rubber washer so I’m going to be using a
regular washer first and then the rubber
washer
[Music]
that’s lately attached
I’m not going to tighten it down quite
yet so at the moment this bracket can
still move around fairly freely let’s
attach the other three the same way
there we go we’ve got all four brackets
loosely attached to our plastic
container and here’s why we didn’t
anchor those down really firmly yet I
want to make sure that they all sit
perfectly level with each other let’s
take our plastic container flip it
upside down and secure it to the bottom
of our metal pan we can just as easily
flip it right side up and we can get a
good look at how this is going to work
and you can see that the magnets are
providing a really strong attachment
which is just what we want with our
magnets attached to the bottom of the
pan we know that all four are sticking
up from the plastic container the same
amount we’re not going to end up with
three of them in contact and one of them
with a small gap with our brackets
measured out so we know they’re at the
right height let’s tighten down the
bolts there we go
at this point we should be able to pull
our pan off our brackets will stay in
place and now we know that we put our
pan back on it will be in good contact
with all four brackets at once and it’s
very well attached but we can still take
it off and we need to to change out the
fuel the next step is we’re going to
prep our copper tubing and how it’s
going to attach to our metal pan the
tubing will be coming straight up the
middle of our plastic container so let’s
drill a hole in the center of our pan to
let it come through to find the center
of this pan I’m going to just try and
balance it on the tip of a pen until
it’s staying in one spot that’ll let me
know where the middle of the pan is
there we go we’ve got a balance point if
we’re off by a couple of millimeters
here there it’s really not gonna make a
difference so this point will work we
want to drill a hole that’s big enough
that the widest part of our quarter inch
copper elbow fitting will fit through
the hole it’s so close so you can see
that the drill bit fits inside the
copper fitting right there which makes
sense because it’s designed to fit 3/8
inch pipe here let’s try the next size
up it might be too large definitely big
enough but it’s really a lot more than
we want so I think let’s take our 3/8
inch drill bit and then we’ll just sort
of wiggle it around inside the pan a
little bit to open up the hole
[Applause]
[Music]
here we go
beautiful our copper fitting now fits
through that hole let’s look at the
layout we’re gonna want for our copper
pipes our vinyl tube fits perfectly into
this three-eighths to 1/4 inch copper
adapter it’s a pretty snug fit too so
I’m really not worried about any gas
leaking out of it the fuel will travel
up the tube through this copper fitting
we’ll have another piece of copper
connecting these two then we’ll have
this elbow which will run out another
straight piece of copper tube connected
to that will be a second elbow we’ll
have a nice tight circle of copper
tubing that comes back to about right
here to be finished off with an end cap
let’s start by bending the copper tube
that we need in our circle and cutting
that off I got this copper pipe at
Lowe’s it came in a coil about three
maybe four feet long and a cardboard box
I think it was about five bucks copper
is very flexible which makes it easier
to bend into a circle but you do have to
be careful because if you bend it too
aggressively
it will kink in the middle and then the
gas won’t be able to flow through the
piping well I want a nice clean edge to
start our copper pipe so first I’m just
gonna cut this off using a hacksaw
should want to be pretty gentle putting
in the vise because since copper is so
soft it could very easily get squished
in the vise here I just want it to hold
it in place
there we go we have a much cleaner edge
on this now let’s just take a file and
clean it up a little bit more – if we’ve
cut the end of our pipe off nicely it
should fit into the end of our elbow
piece perfect with the end of our pipe
cut we now want to bend it into a circle
with a diameter of four to five inches
you can see that the copper pipe is
fairly easy to bend even with just your
hands you can also see that as unbending
it it is getting narrower than it is
when it’s unbent this is what I meant
when I said you have to be careful if
you were to bend it too hard we would
get a kink in the pipe there we go I
think that’s bent into a pretty good
circle it’s fairly tight it hasn’t
kinked too badly I do have one spot here
where it started to smash the tube I’m
going to see if I can use a pair of
pliers and get that out a little bit it
shouldn’t cause any problems it’s
definitely still wide enough that the
gas can flow through it but just to make
it a little bit nicer see if we can
bring that back out a little okay I
think that popped out a little bit now
we want to cut off the excess of our
copper pipe let’s do that right about
there I didn’t really like using the
vise on the copper I thought it was
pinching it a little too much so I’m
just gonna try and hold it down using
this wooden block in my own bodyweight
of course I should be using a pipe
cutter rather than a hacksaw but I don’t
have one let’s just use our file and
clean up that edge a little bit alright
and our cap fits nicely on the end of
that now we need to cut off a section of
our quarter inch copper pipe to connect
these two pieces there we go that’s a
pretty nice straight section of pipe so
we’ll cut out the rest of our fittings
from that part
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
we’ve got our little fitting of course
let’s take our file and clean it up so
it fits nicely into both of our pieces
that it looks good there we go both
pieces are fitting just the way we want
them to with our regulator in place our
3/8 inch vinyl tubing should fit very
snugly over the nozzle in fact it’s snug
enough that when I twist it I can get it
to fit down onto the threads and that
actually helps tighten it into place the
reason I’m using vinyl tubing instead of
metal hardware is that I could not find
any other metal hardware that fit nicely
onto this thread it seems to be a size
that doesn’t conform the standard
threading so clearly we have way more
tubing that is going to be necessary in
fact I think we want to cut it down so
it’s only about three quarters of an
inch tall
[Music]
it’s nice and snug into our copper there
we go
and if we drop that down into the bottom
of the container we can see how long of
a fitting we need to connect from the
source of the fuel up into our metal Pam
I’m gonna do a little test I cut this
one-inch piece to connect our elbow into
our circle I’m gonna see if that’s close
to the right size to connect these other
two pieces this length of pipe does seem
to be working but this particular piece
of pipe is only barely inside this
connection point so I’m going to measure
this pieces length and then cut another
piece that’s about 1/4 inch longer
[Music]
[Applause]
all right fits there pretty nicely
magnets looks like it fits there great –
that looks like a perfect fit we’ve now
got all of our pieces cut out shaped and
ready to assemble so come back tomorrow
it will show you how to permanently
attach them all together and form them
into a beautiful tabletop firepit thanks
for joining us for the first half of
this video don’t forget to come gear
yourself up with products and merch at
the king of random calm
see you there Hertz in the meantime
remember in the meantime rip remember I
can’t say the word remember hey guys
thank you for your comments so many of
you have really interesting suggestions
for projects and experiments and we love
testing those out for you I also wanted
to say thank you for the great feedback
you’re leaving for me and my team
because we are all in this together
so thank you for being on our team
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