an introduction from northern ohio

[LazarusLong]

Hello everyone. I'm LazarusLong, from northern Ohio (west of Cleveland ).
I like tools! Well, I like having the tools I need when I'm working on a project, anyway.
Found this website looking for plans to build my own oxalic acid vaporizer. For those who don't know what that is, it's a tool used to heat up and vaporize oxalic acid crystals ( the acids from rhubarb leaves) in a beehive, to kill varroa mites. Rather spendy for such a little thing, but safer for treating mites than many other methods/chemicals.
I also ride motorcycles and try to work on my own. I do woodworking, mostly for beehives. Heat my house with only an indoor woodstove (I buy logs, so lots of cutting, splitting stacking. Oh, and I'm a beekeeper, if I haven't mentioned it.
Looking forward to learning stuff here, and with any luck, sharing some of what I know.

[Jon]

Hi LazarusLong - welcome to HomemadeTools.net

Sounds like you'll fit in nicely here. We finally stopped using our woodstove for the season this week. What's worked really well for us is a woodstove with a blower fan, plus a thermostat that cycles the forced-air propane heat blower (without heat) every 15 minutes. And a steam humidifier plumbed into the forced air ducting. Not the pad-type evaporative humidifier - an electric one that heats incoming cold water to steam and then injects the steam directly into the ducting. So then you get woodstove heat, plus whole house circulation, plus plenty of humidity. I actually find cutting and splitting wood on the property to be very fulfilling and satisfying work.

We have a couple of oxalic acid vaporizer builds listed here:

https://www.homemadetools.net/homema...id-vaporizer-3
Homemade Oxalic Acid Vaporizer - HomemadeTools.net

Where are you on designing yours?