harleyboy
New Member
Greetings, first post here. I ran a Riteway M37 for a short time about 20 years ago and was very new to wood burning. I've run a jotul oslo 500 in the living room and a quadrafire 5700 ACT in the basement since then and clean my 3 chimneys myself.. I basically am tired of constantly adjusting, moving wood around in the stove and just plain fiddling to keep a proper burn going and that's with even installing a auber temperature guage on the quadrafire with the readout upstairs so I don't have to make so many trips downstairs to see how things are going....so looking at my hardley used riteway , it has a large firebox, reloading standing up instead of kneeling in front and the big selling point for me which the newest quadrafire stoves now have is the bimetal coil controling air flow as the stove heats and cools...i know all about the air tubes giving a secondary combustion and basically burning all the smoke on the newer stoves and the Riteway won't be that efficient but if run properly I think I can deal with using 20% more wood use just so I can let the stove work for 4 or 5 hours until I need to add more wood.... anyway the Riteway has been hardley used and I have an extra center bar and 2 shaker grates and I am psyched up. One last thing on a long post... I now know to adjust the air intake flapper so it can't shut completely and smoulder...billowing smoke like before but to be opened some at it's lowest setting so fresh air is always present and have even contemplated putting a air inlet spinner on the top left side to get some fresh air in to the combustable smoke high up in the fire box but I want to hold off and see how the first year burning goes........ thanks for reading a long one,,,,,,, regards, homie