hey guys I’m Nate welcome back to the
workshop in our previous video we showed
you the beginning steps of building a
tabletop fire pit now we’re going to
take all of the pieces that we’ve
prepped before and permanently assemble
them into a fire pit
let’s start by soldering the long coil
with the two elbows and the small
straight piece in between solder and
copper pipe properly does take a little
bit of prep work so let’s clean up all
of the joints so that the bond will be
strong there’s a tool that’s made for
cleaning out the inside of copper joints
that looks kind of like cone-shaped wire
brush but unfortunately I also don’t
have one of those so I am using some
very fine grit sandpaper wrapped around
the end of a pen it’s actually working
pretty well there we have it we’ve
prepped and cleaned all of the copper
pieces that will make connections before
we can solder our copper pipes together
we do have to add a little bit of flux
this helps the solder flow evenly and
not oxidize I also need to apply a
little bit to the inside joint this is
of course a much larger brush than is
necessary to get this solder to take and
really seal well on this copper pipe
what I need to do is heat up the joint a
lot and then tap the solder onto it if
it’s properly heated with the flux added
correctly it should pull the liquid
solder into the gap and seal it up
everyone out there who’s way better at
soldering copper pipe than I am please
don’t make fun of me too much I haven’t
done this much before at all
– on it
[Music]
well it’s ugly but I think it’s soldered
[Music]
hey that one actually turned out pretty
good there’s probably some very specific
way to know when you’re at the perfect
temperature so that the solder will melt
and flow nicely but it’s not just gonna
burn and fall off I don’t know what that
method is
[Music]
now we’ve got the top coil of our fire
pit all assembled it’s soldered together
and I’m pretty sure it’s even airtight
which is just what we want not bad for
my second time ever soldering copper
pipe learning new skills today it’s good
let’s solder a straight piece on then
pass it through the pan and then we’ll
attach the second piece on the outside
if we attach all of these right here we
won’t be able to fit it through our pan
anymore because this hole is only large
enough for the smaller fitting not for
this larger one
oh it’s pretty good
now let’s pop that down through the pan
careful because it is quite hot
[Music]
seems pretty well attached everywhere
got some good solder on there if it’s
good to go you just want to let it cool
down a little bit our piping is all
soldered together we’ve let it cool down
to the point where it’s no longer
difficult to touch let’s attach this to
our fuel line and then fit it inside our
plastic container beautiful alright
that’s looking good but at this point if
we were to turn on the gas it would have
nowhere to go what we need to do is
drill some holes into our copper pipe up
on top so the fuel has somewhere to
escape to I have here about the smallest
drill bit that will fit into this Chuck
and still actually grip on if I go too
small there’s a little bit of a hole
down the center of the different teeth
and it’ll just slide in and out but I
think this size should be good so I’m
just going to put several holes going
around this copper tube and that’s where
the propane butane fuel mixture will
come out
[Music]
the copper tube in the top now has holes
drilled in it so it should be ready to
test lighting on fire but some of you
may have caught on to the fact that so
far it’s pretty difficult to turn on the
gas inside this container if I just
tried to twist the handle as it is I’d
have to open it and then attach the lid
and the whole time propane and butane
would be spewing into the air that’s no
good so what we want to do is give
ourselves a way to turn the gas on and
off while the lid is attached so first
let’s take off this small wire handle
the plan is that we’ll drill a small
hole into the side of the plastic
through that we’ll have a length of
straightened copper tube which can reach
in and turn the little key that lets the
gas come out at the moment if you put it
on into swivels and doesn’t turn it at
all we’ll flatten the tube so that it
fits nicely onto our key looks like just
the right height now we want to use a
bit that’s just larger than our copper
pipe so that it’ll easily fit in
including the flattened end designed to
fit over the key
let’s just take some sandpaper in our
pen and clean up that edge a little bit
in the end it probably won’t even be
very visible but it’s just nicer if it’s
clean you can now fit the copper pipe
through the side of the container and it
fits perfectly over the key let’s
flatten the end of our tube so that it
can actually get some grip on our gas
key the fuel can is inside the plastic
container we can now reach through with
our piece of copper pipe fit it over the
key and open the gas since we don’t want
to have an extra foot of copper pipe
sticking out at all times let’s just
mark off where we want to cut this our
piece is cut down we’ve cleaned up the
edge and at this point a copper cap fits
nicely over it so this will work as our
key to turn our gas on and off our
copper pipe fits nicely over the fuel
key but I am going to try and crimp it
down a little more so it’s a little bit
more of a snug fit and won’t Bend or
warp the copper when we try and turn it
on and off that works great so to finish
up this piece so let’s clean up the
edges and solder the cap on
our copper pipe key is now finished so
let’s try putting everything together
and do a rough test to see if this is
working it’s looking pretty good see
what happens if we turn this key look at
that how big can it go really big too
big turn that down a bit again that is
beautiful it’s coming out perfectly nice
even flames all the way around our
circle excellent excellent excellent
excellent whoo yes all right I’m gonna
turn it off by twisting the key perfect
that worked great oh I’m excited I love
when things work well well at this point
what we need to do is make it look a
little bit nicer it’s working great but
it looked kind of boring so let’s take
some decorative elements add those on
and really make this thing with nice our
base being made of clear plastic is
really nice while we’re building it
because we can see everything that’s
going on inside but it doesn’t really
look very professional when you can just
look at your fuel tank I want to
decorate the outside of the plastic
container and then I also have these
blue pieces of glass that I want to put
in the bed above the fire coil what
we’re going to do is take these paint
sticks cut them down to the height of
our plastic container and then use some
hot glue to glue them on going all the
way around of course we’ll have to drill
a hole in one of the sticks so that our
key can still fit in and out I’m
actually going to just measure up to the
brackets because our pan will be on top
and we’ll never really be able to see
this piece of the clear plastic this way
I don’t have to fit them around each
single bracket
[Music]
let’s start with the slat that we need
to drill a hole into to fit over our key
let’s put a little mark right where we
want the center of the hole to be
[Music]
looks nice perfect he slides in and out
beautiful let’s take some hot glue apply
it to the inside of our cut paint stick
and then glue it in place on the
container our first ones in place now
let’s just go around the rest of the
container adding paint sticks all the
way all right we’ve got one spot left
that’s just slightly wider than our last
paint stick so we are gonna have to trim
this down to make it fit
[Music]
beautiful there we go that looks pretty
nice now let’s just take these glass
beads and add them all around on the
inside of our pan
[Music]
I got these beads at Hobby Lobby they
come in these little net bags I bought
two of the bags and each bag was only
like three dollars so it’s pretty cheap
I think it would be fine if the glass
were right on top of the pipe but I am
trying to clear a path just a little bit
so the gas has somewhere to go it’s
looking pretty good I think at this
point what we have to do is turn it on
and see how it looks oh that’s fantastic
thank you that a little tabletop fire
pit a lot of good heat coming off of
that too that looks so cool I love the
contrast the orange fire with the blue
glass that’s why I chose the blue glass
it’s just they look really good together
wow that looks so cool I’m just gonna
turn it up bigger fire always more fun
wow that is a hoot that’s the dumbest
expression I’ve ever used I hope you’re
here I do want to point out that while
this is small enough to fit on a
tabletop it’s really not something that
you want to use indoors for any extended
period of time
propane and butane unless they’re burned
100% can let off carbon monoxide gases
and you can see that there’s smoke
coming off of here both of those are
stuff you don’t want inside your house
for any long period of time there you
have it a fire pit is a super fun thing
to gather around if you don’t have one
this is easier to build than it is to
install one in your yard it’s not gonna
put out the same amount of heat of
course but it does work pretty well
there’s a good amount of heat coming off
of this and of course I can turn it up
even more if I want
well that’s toasty very toasty very
quickly this whole build only takes a
few hours and it’s pretty fun to do I
especially enjoyed learning the new
skill of soldering the copper together
although some people out there probably
think what I did looked pretty sloppy it
worked well it’s airtight and for a
first time it’s not bad thanks for
joining us for this project today and we
look forward to the next one talk to you
then
this is better at night I got a five but
then sits on your table now what won’t
they think of next
hey guys grant here just want to pop in
with a quick update that the king of
random brand is expanding Nate’s here
because you wanted more DIY more variety
more frequent videos and together we’re
all making that happen thanks for your
support
workshop in our previous video we showed
you the beginning steps of building a
tabletop fire pit now we’re going to
take all of the pieces that we’ve
prepped before and permanently assemble
them into a fire pit
let’s start by soldering the long coil
with the two elbows and the small
straight piece in between solder and
copper pipe properly does take a little
bit of prep work so let’s clean up all
of the joints so that the bond will be
strong there’s a tool that’s made for
cleaning out the inside of copper joints
that looks kind of like cone-shaped wire
brush but unfortunately I also don’t
have one of those so I am using some
very fine grit sandpaper wrapped around
the end of a pen it’s actually working
pretty well there we have it we’ve
prepped and cleaned all of the copper
pieces that will make connections before
we can solder our copper pipes together
we do have to add a little bit of flux
this helps the solder flow evenly and
not oxidize I also need to apply a
little bit to the inside joint this is
of course a much larger brush than is
necessary to get this solder to take and
really seal well on this copper pipe
what I need to do is heat up the joint a
lot and then tap the solder onto it if
it’s properly heated with the flux added
correctly it should pull the liquid
solder into the gap and seal it up
everyone out there who’s way better at
soldering copper pipe than I am please
don’t make fun of me too much I haven’t
done this much before at all
– on it
[Music]
well it’s ugly but I think it’s soldered
[Music]
hey that one actually turned out pretty
good there’s probably some very specific
way to know when you’re at the perfect
temperature so that the solder will melt
and flow nicely but it’s not just gonna
burn and fall off I don’t know what that
method is
[Music]
now we’ve got the top coil of our fire
pit all assembled it’s soldered together
and I’m pretty sure it’s even airtight
which is just what we want not bad for
my second time ever soldering copper
pipe learning new skills today it’s good
let’s solder a straight piece on then
pass it through the pan and then we’ll
attach the second piece on the outside
if we attach all of these right here we
won’t be able to fit it through our pan
anymore because this hole is only large
enough for the smaller fitting not for
this larger one
oh it’s pretty good
now let’s pop that down through the pan
careful because it is quite hot
[Music]
seems pretty well attached everywhere
got some good solder on there if it’s
good to go you just want to let it cool
down a little bit our piping is all
soldered together we’ve let it cool down
to the point where it’s no longer
difficult to touch let’s attach this to
our fuel line and then fit it inside our
plastic container beautiful alright
that’s looking good but at this point if
we were to turn on the gas it would have
nowhere to go what we need to do is
drill some holes into our copper pipe up
on top so the fuel has somewhere to
escape to I have here about the smallest
drill bit that will fit into this Chuck
and still actually grip on if I go too
small there’s a little bit of a hole
down the center of the different teeth
and it’ll just slide in and out but I
think this size should be good so I’m
just going to put several holes going
around this copper tube and that’s where
the propane butane fuel mixture will
come out
[Music]
the copper tube in the top now has holes
drilled in it so it should be ready to
test lighting on fire but some of you
may have caught on to the fact that so
far it’s pretty difficult to turn on the
gas inside this container if I just
tried to twist the handle as it is I’d
have to open it and then attach the lid
and the whole time propane and butane
would be spewing into the air that’s no
good so what we want to do is give
ourselves a way to turn the gas on and
off while the lid is attached so first
let’s take off this small wire handle
the plan is that we’ll drill a small
hole into the side of the plastic
through that we’ll have a length of
straightened copper tube which can reach
in and turn the little key that lets the
gas come out at the moment if you put it
on into swivels and doesn’t turn it at
all we’ll flatten the tube so that it
fits nicely onto our key looks like just
the right height now we want to use a
bit that’s just larger than our copper
pipe so that it’ll easily fit in
including the flattened end designed to
fit over the key
let’s just take some sandpaper in our
pen and clean up that edge a little bit
in the end it probably won’t even be
very visible but it’s just nicer if it’s
clean you can now fit the copper pipe
through the side of the container and it
fits perfectly over the key let’s
flatten the end of our tube so that it
can actually get some grip on our gas
key the fuel can is inside the plastic
container we can now reach through with
our piece of copper pipe fit it over the
key and open the gas since we don’t want
to have an extra foot of copper pipe
sticking out at all times let’s just
mark off where we want to cut this our
piece is cut down we’ve cleaned up the
edge and at this point a copper cap fits
nicely over it so this will work as our
key to turn our gas on and off our
copper pipe fits nicely over the fuel
key but I am going to try and crimp it
down a little more so it’s a little bit
more of a snug fit and won’t Bend or
warp the copper when we try and turn it
on and off that works great so to finish
up this piece so let’s clean up the
edges and solder the cap on
our copper pipe key is now finished so
let’s try putting everything together
and do a rough test to see if this is
working it’s looking pretty good see
what happens if we turn this key look at
that how big can it go really big too
big turn that down a bit again that is
beautiful it’s coming out perfectly nice
even flames all the way around our
circle excellent excellent excellent
excellent whoo yes all right I’m gonna
turn it off by twisting the key perfect
that worked great oh I’m excited I love
when things work well well at this point
what we need to do is make it look a
little bit nicer it’s working great but
it looked kind of boring so let’s take
some decorative elements add those on
and really make this thing with nice our
base being made of clear plastic is
really nice while we’re building it
because we can see everything that’s
going on inside but it doesn’t really
look very professional when you can just
look at your fuel tank I want to
decorate the outside of the plastic
container and then I also have these
blue pieces of glass that I want to put
in the bed above the fire coil what
we’re going to do is take these paint
sticks cut them down to the height of
our plastic container and then use some
hot glue to glue them on going all the
way around of course we’ll have to drill
a hole in one of the sticks so that our
key can still fit in and out I’m
actually going to just measure up to the
brackets because our pan will be on top
and we’ll never really be able to see
this piece of the clear plastic this way
I don’t have to fit them around each
single bracket
[Music]
let’s start with the slat that we need
to drill a hole into to fit over our key
let’s put a little mark right where we
want the center of the hole to be
[Music]
looks nice perfect he slides in and out
beautiful let’s take some hot glue apply
it to the inside of our cut paint stick
and then glue it in place on the
container our first ones in place now
let’s just go around the rest of the
container adding paint sticks all the
way all right we’ve got one spot left
that’s just slightly wider than our last
paint stick so we are gonna have to trim
this down to make it fit
[Music]
beautiful there we go that looks pretty
nice now let’s just take these glass
beads and add them all around on the
inside of our pan
[Music]
I got these beads at Hobby Lobby they
come in these little net bags I bought
two of the bags and each bag was only
like three dollars so it’s pretty cheap
I think it would be fine if the glass
were right on top of the pipe but I am
trying to clear a path just a little bit
so the gas has somewhere to go it’s
looking pretty good I think at this
point what we have to do is turn it on
and see how it looks oh that’s fantastic
thank you that a little tabletop fire
pit a lot of good heat coming off of
that too that looks so cool I love the
contrast the orange fire with the blue
glass that’s why I chose the blue glass
it’s just they look really good together
wow that looks so cool I’m just gonna
turn it up bigger fire always more fun
wow that is a hoot that’s the dumbest
expression I’ve ever used I hope you’re
here I do want to point out that while
this is small enough to fit on a
tabletop it’s really not something that
you want to use indoors for any extended
period of time
propane and butane unless they’re burned
100% can let off carbon monoxide gases
and you can see that there’s smoke
coming off of here both of those are
stuff you don’t want inside your house
for any long period of time there you
have it a fire pit is a super fun thing
to gather around if you don’t have one
this is easier to build than it is to
install one in your yard it’s not gonna
put out the same amount of heat of
course but it does work pretty well
there’s a good amount of heat coming off
of this and of course I can turn it up
even more if I want
well that’s toasty very toasty very
quickly this whole build only takes a
few hours and it’s pretty fun to do I
especially enjoyed learning the new
skill of soldering the copper together
although some people out there probably
think what I did looked pretty sloppy it
worked well it’s airtight and for a
first time it’s not bad thanks for
joining us for this project today and we
look forward to the next one talk to you
then
this is better at night I got a five but
then sits on your table now what won’t
they think of next
hey guys grant here just want to pop in
with a quick update that the king of
random brand is expanding Nate’s here
because you wanted more DIY more variety
more frequent videos and together we’re
all making that happen thanks for your
support
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