Painted Godin Stove

I bought a Godin Oval coal stove at a yard sale. The owner said that he used it just for display and that he had spray painted the body of it with standard Krylon paint. Because of this, is this stove still safe to use for heat? I'm guessing not.

Fire it up outside and burn off the paint...
Is the rest of the stove OK...
Fire brick in place, grate and shaker system...
You can remove that paint before you heat it up...
The stove body is sheet metal...
The top and bottom pretty work is porcelain enamel over cast iron...

CapeCoaler wrote:Fire it up outside and burn off the paint...
Is the rest of the stove OK...
Fire brick in place, grate and shaker system...
You can remove that paint before you heat it up...
The stove body is sheet metal...
The top and bottom pretty work is porcelain enamel over cast iron...

I'd definitely get as much paint off the porcelain enamel as I could before I lit that puppy up. I don't know why, I just would. Then I'd set it up outside and burn the rest off. It's going to stink but it will be cool. I'd put a thermometer on the stove's front and maybe one on the top just to make sure I didn't over fire it and then I'd light the match. Come to think of it, this sounds too good to miss. If you announce time and place I bet you could draw a crowd.

Check out the stove's insides like CapeCoaler suggested, if any of that is missing or messed up you may be SOL and it wouldn't be worth the effort to remove the paint. Good luck, Lisa

You will need about 6 feet of stove pipe attached. Fire with wood. Have a soft wire brush handy to brush off the burnt paint when cool. If you decide to re-paint with heat resistant paint you will have to carefully mask off the enamel parts for spray paint or use a brush carefully with brush on paint. The original finish was heat treated steel which was prone to rust if not protected from summertime humidity.