I have been working on this plumbing for about the past 3 weeks. Due to clearances, I wanted to use double wall pipe, as I did with the dutchwest. I had some old Duravent that was in good shape, but faded, and had to buy a few new pieces. It took a few return trips to the stove store to get all the right sections of pipe. The hardest part was getting the duravent masonry adapter to fit into the crock. The crock was slightly out of round, and it took a crazy amount of work, using my die grinder and abrasive stones to get it to fit.
Here's the pipe, mocked up :
Here is the Duravent MPD I added to the stove :
So, yesterday, I pulled the pipe back apart, and repainted the old sections :
I didn't have any coal, so while the paint dried on my stove pipe, I ran 2 miles up the road to Kuntz coal yard with my Prius and trailer, and got 500 lbs of nut. It's convenient but expensive. $232 a ton! -
I started it up in the daytime, with the bilco door open to let the "curing" smoke off of it. I started it with some charcoal. It took a couple of hours to get the coal fire fully established to the point that I could fill the hopper. It took alot more coal than I was used to for the initial fire, but it certainly doesn't use very much once it's up and running! I have the stove's bimetal t-stat set at 2, it seems that it's practically idling and putting out more heat than my old stove would!
Here's a shot while warming up:
And a picture where you can really see the glow of the coal :
Right now, it's 46 degrees outside, and it's 77 here at my computer desk! After running all day, the stove only took 1/2 of my coal hod. I'm very impressed with how little coal it has used! I'm looking forward to cranking this baby up when it gets really cold out!
