As a D.S. owner/user , all I can say is
WOW.
Dam TOTP.
DS Machine Quality Control
- mntbugy
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You reminded me of a skillet I have known as the Monday Morning skillet. If you hold a cast iron skillet by the handle in your hand and look at the bottom, it usually tells you who made it and where (sometimes in symbols). I have one that says, "Birmingham Stove and Range" but the writing is upside down. The cast for that model was inverted, and nobody noticed until it was in production. The owner of the company later said the man who made the cast came in Monday morning after a weekend bender. They are highly collectible--so much so that there are fakes out there, and the copies do not have sharp, clear letters.
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- Hand Fed Coal Stove: DS Machine 1300 with hopper
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Yep. I think you have diagnosed it precisely right. If the hopper were “right” it would be an excellent stove.
The rear hopper extension doesn’t really affect where the coal settles in front. I think the front retainer degradation was there all along. I just didn’t see it because it is not easily visible. I have made a “shell” out of lightweight steel to wrap around the secondary air tube and the front retainer, and we’ll see how that goes this season. The shell will no doubt have to be replaced yearly, but that’s very easy to do. It is drilled for the air holes, and held in place by a couple bolts dropped loosely into two of the holes.KingCoal wrote: ↑Thu. Oct. 04, 2018 8:18 pmnow you have the front retainer pulling away from the secondary air tube at the front because the former remedies forced the coal from the hopper to flow and settle more toward the front of the fire box and burn against those surfaces too and compromise them.
I used the thinnest readily-available gasket between the glass and the clamps, no gasket between the door and the glass. Fiberglass gasket rapidly compresses, so even though I snugged down the clamp bolts at installation, within a day the bolts felt much less snug, so I don’t think they are putting much stress on the glass at all.
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