Dalmatian90
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The magnetic thermometer falls off the stove pipe at around 800º
I have one of those cheapy Vogelzang Deluxe Boxwood stoves, darn near impossible to control the air on (although I've improved it with things like making up a bit of aluminium flashing for the bottom of the door I found on forums here).
With a thick bed of coals, I put in a bunch of 1" - 1.5" rounds of unseasoned ash. About an hour later then took off and man was the stove snarlin' and snortin' trying to suck more air in. Pretty sure if that didn't cause a chimney or partition fire, nothing will. Once she takes off though, there's not controlling the air supply and those little rounds had tons of surface area!
I've seen worse -- parents house growing up and my sister's when I lived there for a couple years I've gotten then stove pipes red hot but they had much larger stoves.
I like to run it up into the 600º range a few times a day, I'm no longer nervous around 700º. Seems to be a sweet spot for it to really pump the BTUs into the house at that point. I was a bit concerned after the therometer fell off though
I may poke around late spring / summer to see if I can find a cheap air tight stove to try next year. I only have 600 s.f. to heat so the Vogelzang does well since I essentially live in a cabin like they're meant to heat, and I've been given a lot of opinions an air tight, efficient stove would drive me out of the house. This one can get me from 55 to 72 at the far side of the house in two hours and maintain that all day and evening, it's just I'd like something that last better overnight, and if it used less wood overall that would just be a bonus. Figure worse that can happen is decide to sell the air tight in the winter when it would bring more money.
I have one of those cheapy Vogelzang Deluxe Boxwood stoves, darn near impossible to control the air on (although I've improved it with things like making up a bit of aluminium flashing for the bottom of the door I found on forums here).
With a thick bed of coals, I put in a bunch of 1" - 1.5" rounds of unseasoned ash. About an hour later then took off and man was the stove snarlin' and snortin' trying to suck more air in. Pretty sure if that didn't cause a chimney or partition fire, nothing will. Once she takes off though, there's not controlling the air supply and those little rounds had tons of surface area!
I've seen worse -- parents house growing up and my sister's when I lived there for a couple years I've gotten then stove pipes red hot but they had much larger stoves.
I like to run it up into the 600º range a few times a day, I'm no longer nervous around 700º. Seems to be a sweet spot for it to really pump the BTUs into the house at that point. I was a bit concerned after the therometer fell off though
I may poke around late spring / summer to see if I can find a cheap air tight stove to try next year. I only have 600 s.f. to heat so the Vogelzang does well since I essentially live in a cabin like they're meant to heat, and I've been given a lot of opinions an air tight, efficient stove would drive me out of the house. This one can get me from 55 to 72 at the far side of the house in two hours and maintain that all day and evening, it's just I'd like something that last better overnight, and if it used less wood overall that would just be a bonus. Figure worse that can happen is decide to sell the air tight in the winter when it would bring more money.