Well the pics didn't turn out too good but you can see what it is. all the fits in the handle is that small piece on the end. Handle is small itself.
It definitely needs an improvement. Kinda hard to believe they put such a cheesy piece on it. I'm gonna look closely at it and may do exactly what you said. First i will go to where i bought it and see if they have another handle that will fit. Thought about just putting a screw in it and leaving it and buying handles for the rest of the openers but i think the plastic would melt. Gonna have to do something, i can see me getting burned often trying to use it.Dang, SS! We need to improve this engineering somehow. Consider this. A local welder could weld the extension you are holding in your hand onto the part that now fastens to the stove with a set screw. Then remove the existing set screw that holds the assembly to the stove so that you would be working with one larger removable piece, similar to mine.
In short, attach the separate piece in your hand permanenty to the piece that you show that looks like it is now fastened to the stove with only a set screw. That piece does not have to be permanently fastened.
WDYT?
Don't worry about melting the plastic. Remember, the idea is that the handle is only temporary and you remove it from the stove when finished using it. That set screw holding the handle assembly to the stove becomes a drone. The square stud that the handle turns always remains there. I believe the set screw screw now presses against that stud tight and that is the only thing holding the 2-part assembly to the square stud. Right?It definitely needs an improvement. Kinda hard to believe they put such a cheesy piece on it. I'm gonna look closely at it and may do exactly what you said. First i will go to where i bought it and see if they have another handle that will fit. Thought about just putting a screw in it and leaving it and buying handles for the rest of the openers but i think the plastic would melt. Gonna have to do something, i can see me getting burned often trying to use it.
I'll check on how it attaches tonight. Your solution may be the easiest. I wanna leave the chrome ends on the ash pan and the dampener. Will probably just put the handle together for just the side door. i will have to buy another handle for the other doors though. the side door will be used the most.Don't worry about melting the plastic. Remember, the idea is that the handle is only temporary and you remove it from the stove when finished using it. That set screw holding the handle assembly to the stove becomes a drone. The square stud that the handle turns always remains there. I believe the set screw screw now presses against that stud tight and that is the only thing holding the 2-part assembly to the square stud. Right?
It just seems to me that it would be easier to use this asembly if the handle extension and the part now secured with the set screw become one removable piece.
That's how I would design it, and that's how it was made 20 years ago.
LOL, I got a burn blister the first time. Was just firing in the cast iron like the manual said and grabbed the opener without the handle. Been used to the old stove. The handle stayed on it.I believe that you'll eventually come to like that removable handle.
Curious visitors tend to leave the stove alone, too - there's no fiddling with the various latches and openers it they can't figure out how to dink with it without raising a blister!
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That's too much dough for my blood. The cat combustors for these stoves were once going for $40 apiece, were hard to clean, and needed annual replacement. I decided to rig up my own "combustor" using 1/4" plate steel. Here's the secondary combustion plate insert that came with the stove for burning coal after five years of steady use:whats the price for a combuster for one of these large dutchwest stoves???
friends got a 2479 DW non cat and the "fountain" fell apart....anywhere from $330 to $400 for this part.
Your wish is my command. I took these shots last year. Here's the grill I made using hollow steel square stock for the handles and 5/16" solid round stock for the grate. Four short legs were bolted on to keep the grill dead level while cooking. The back legs are a little longer than the two in front. I added walnut handles because that grill gets hot while the taters cook:got any pics of that pull out cooker thing?
ROFALMFAO! :greenchainsaw:sweeeeeeet!!!! looks great!
you got power there or you just run on candles?
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