Warm Morning 617a

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Sat. Aug. 15, 2015 1:42 pm

JJ,

Do you ever get power outages in winter ? If so, the warm morning will keep ya warmer than the boiler.

Paul

johnjoseph · Post by **johnjoseph** » Sat. Aug. 15, 2015 1:50 pm

Sunny Boy wrote:JJ,

Do you ever get power outages in winter ? If so, the warm morning will keep ya warmer than the boiler.
Paul

Very infrequently do we loose power...maybe 2 times a winter for a few hours....we loose power more in the summer due to thunderstorms....you have a good point though! My home is only ten years old and the warm morning would probably heat the whole house fairly easy as the house is only 1600 square feet. I vaulted ceiling in the living room though and curious if it would be an issue to put the chimney through. I would also need to install some sort of corner hearth.

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Sat. Aug. 15, 2015 2:36 pm

johnjoseph wrote:
Sunny Boy wrote:JJ,

Do you ever get power outages in winter ? If so, the warm morning will keep ya warmer than the boiler.
Paul
Very infrequently do we loose power...maybe 2 times a winter for a few hours....we loose power more in the summer due to thunderstorms....you have a good point though! My home is only ten years old and the warm morning would probably heat the whole house fairly easy as the house is only 1600 square feet. I vaulted ceiling in the living room though and curious if it would be an issue to put the chimney through. I would also need to install some sort of corner hearth.

Hearth boards, and/or, sheet metal spaced off the wall, are a quick and easy set up. A long indoor pipe will help keep that much more heat indoors. You might find that installing two MPD's, one down very near the stove, helps keep the heat down lower in the stove, stack, and the room ????

And if the outage goes on for awhile and the stove prevents frozen pipes, it'll pay for itself just in plumber costs saved. Been there. After mine froze up, it cost me many hundreds of dollars just for new copper piping to redo the water system by myself. Hate to think what it would have cost if I had to pay a plumber to do all that. Certainly more than the coal range cost, plus a winter's worth of coal !

It's no fun living in a house in winter without water where and when ya need it ! Especially so for a wife and kids !!!!

Paul

johnjoseph · Post by **johnjoseph** » Sun. Aug. 16, 2015 5:14 pm

Thanks Paul. ...I'm curious if I should take this stove completely apart and do a rebuild before I install. ..my gut tells me yes

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Sun. Aug. 16, 2015 5:36 pm

johnjoseph wrote:Thanks Paul. ...I'm curious if I should take this stove completely apart and do a rebuild before I install. ..my gut tells me yes

JJ, I can only answer that with more questions. And not to say that gut feelings should be discounted out of hand, ....but,

1. Guts aside, does it need complete rebuilding? Have you looked it over very carefully inside and out and found things that need fixing ?

2. If #1is a yes, can you properly (safely) rebuild it all and get it back together, once you have taken it apart ?

If #1 is a yes, and #2 is a question, keep in mind that there are at least a couple of guys on here who could take that Warm Morning apart and put it back together one-handed and with their eyes closed. One is Steve (Kingcoal) - another would be John (Buck).

Paul

KingCoal · Post by **KingCoal** » Sun. Aug. 16, 2015 5:57 pm

i was working on a reply while SunnyBoy was posting his

the 617 A is a VERY simple stove. what you have is an old square metal "saltine cracker" can on end with bricks in it and 2 doors and a flue exit that can be flipped for either top or rear discharge.

to make it as simple as possible, get it hooked to a flue and start a smallish fire in it, then go around all the seams between the sheet metal barrel and the cast iron parts with smoke and see if it draws in anywhere.

if not, you're good to go. if so, a dab of stove cement will take care of it.

post up some pics that show us the over condition, esp. joining areas.

steve

johnjoseph · Post by **johnjoseph** » Sun. Aug. 16, 2015 6:57 pm

This is what I have for pictures

johnjoseph · Post by **johnjoseph** » Sun. Aug. 16, 2015 6:59 pm

Grates look good...bricks need replacing. ..best guess at this point

KingCoal · Post by **KingCoal** » Sun. Aug. 16, 2015 8:09 pm

here's some pics from my 617 A for reference.

KingCoal · Post by **KingCoal** » Sun. Aug. 16, 2015 8:43 pm

here's a link for the 2 types of rectangular bricks.

http://www.woodmanspartsplus.com/Search.aspx?key= ... ning%20617

still looking for my link to the corner bricks.

KingCoal · Post by **KingCoal** » Mon. Aug. 17, 2015 8:20 am

here's a link for the correct corner brick for your stove.

on this page you will be looking for the listing for WM5289R

http://www.woodinsert.com/products.php?cat=80

these 2 pages will also be helpful down the road

http://a1stoves.com/free/WarmMorningpartslist1.jpg

http://a1stoves.com/free/WarmMorningpartslist2.jpg

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Mon. Aug. 17, 2015 8:58 am

Steve,
If JJ only burns anthracite, and not bit coal, in that Warm Morning, does he need to have those custom made bricks, or can he just brick up the insides with the much less expensive, common fire brick available from places like Lowes ?

Plus, not having those large corner bricks would add more coal holding capacity.

Paul

KingCoal · Post by **KingCoal** » Mon. Aug. 17, 2015 9:22 am

i can't make a hard and fast comment on that Paul but, if John / Buck47 happens to spot this thread he might have some input there.

i just don't know how much diff. it would make in "draw" thru the fire bed. you would think it would strengthen it since some of the primary air is no longer getting an easy pass up the sides of the fire pot ?

steve

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Mon. Aug. 17, 2015 10:22 am

Thanks Steve.

It didn't occur to me that there might also be an increase in through-the-firebed draft. Certainly an added plus if it does.

I was just looking at the expense of replacing the unique shaped firebricks that the Warm Morning needs to burn bit coal. If they aren't needed for anthracite, just buying common fire bricks would be a substantial savings .

Plus, an increase in coal capacity by not having to use those bulky corner bricks.

Paul

deepwoods · Post by **deepwoods** » Mon. Aug. 17, 2015 11:54 am

By seeing the new corner bricks in place I feel more complete combustion of coal would take place due to keeping the coal crowded inward toward those round grates. It has been stated many times how the old stove builders preferred a round firepot for complete burning of coal. Those corner bricks form a near round firepot. Just my 2C.
Still looking for a decent Locke/Warm Morning. Have e-mailed 3 sellers and received NO response. I guess show & tell is not an honored practice for selling old used stoves but I would bet many have been rode hard and put away wet.

Warm Morning 617a

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