Regency F3100L coal conversion

 
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Post by PolarLight » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:13 pm

Hello guys.
I bought a house with 2 Regency F3100L stoves, and one inidetified Regency insert.
Both stoves and fireplace have firebricks inside, and blower can be installed as an option. There is a hole on the back of each stove, and insert has 2 holes underneath the firebox.
Do you have any idea guys, how these units can be converted into coal? I dont care if they wouldn't last long, because I am going to rebuilt whole house heating system, boiler, radiant floor, etc.... Getting blower isn't issue, what else do I need? Grates? Please help because replacing all of them will take time and money. And for my mother in law is too hard to move so much firewood. She is 73 y.o
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance


 
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Post by freetown fred » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:17 pm

Definitely grates--some pix would be real helpful.

 
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Post by McGiever » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:17 pm

;) Hook us up with a link to the mfg'r website and page with the models.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:22 pm

They're not showing any --to coal-- conversion kits.

 
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Post by PolarLight » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:26 pm

Do I need a grates? Can I get them prebuilt as a kit? or I need to get rebars and bring them to a welder?

 
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Post by freetown fred » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:34 pm

You need grates, under-air, ash pan accessibility--those projects will definitely keep ya out of the bars for quite a while! .>)

 
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Post by PolarLight » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:52 pm

Thanks FreetownFred.
Another question about our chimneys.
Last two years we were burning not seasoned firewood (wasn't dry enough) , and it looks like draft isn't as great as it used to be before.
Sinse anthracite has higher burning temperature then wood, would it help to burn all sooth inside of the chimney?


 
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Post by Lightning » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:57 pm

PolarLight wrote:
Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:52 pm
and it looks like draft isn't as great as it used to be before.
Sinse anthracite has higher burning temperature then wood, would it help to burn all sooth inside of the chimney?
Anthracite has lower stove pipe and chimney temps than wood does. It sounds like you should definitely have your chimney cleaned.

 
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Post by lsayre » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:59 pm

PolarLight wrote:
Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 5:52 pm
Sinse anthracite has higher burning temperature then wood, would it help to burn all sooth inside of the chimney?
I'm not convinced that anthracite burns hotter than wood, and anthracite assuredly does not hit anywhere near the high stack temperatures that wood does.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 6:03 pm

Clean the chimney P.

 
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Post by PolarLight » Sat. Oct. 27, 2018 6:05 pm

Got it thanks.
Need to get a good brash and clean all chimneys first.
Thanks

 
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Post by Hoytman » Wed. Oct. 31, 2018 2:18 pm

If that creosote has turned hard, a brush may not touch it. If you spent a season burning wood that's much too wet...I'd have a professional look at...if for nothing else the liability of it. Let the chimney sweep do his job and assume the responsibility.

Me personally...I see a red flag with you trying to convert a modern wood burning stove and trying to burn any coal with it. That Regency wasn't made for it. Period! That's just my opinion. Take it for what it's worth to you. Those folks that manufactured that stove wasn't even thinking about coal when they designed it. There were likely thinking only of wood burning...either with a catalytic converter or not, or secondary air tubes inside the fire box, or both...and from my research on wood stoves Regency hadn't built a hybrid wood stove yet...a stove that burns wood using both a catalyst and secondary air tubes at the same time. There's only a 2-3 wood stove manufacturers that have done this...built and offered wood only hybrids.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Wed. Oct. 31, 2018 4:44 pm

Hate to disagree H, but just brushin well has worked for eons.Don't know what a pro would do differently other then hand ya a bill. Crap, old school used to just let the chimney ROAR! AS for the conversion to coal--I'm thinkin P is a tinkerer--:) People said the same thing to the Wright bros & Edison!! LOL Safety being the priority in any venture such as this.

 
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Post by PolarLight » Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 12:39 pm

About mechanical brushing.
Heard some ppl were using wrapped x-mass tree branches for polishing chimney inside. I do live in a very remote area, we don't have any pro chimney cleaners here....and I agree,
They wouldn't do anything that I can't do.....
Another option I heard from local farmers how to clean chimney inside. To burn some sorta salt or even potato peelings, that staff when burns gives a gas that reacts with the creosote. Not sure how it works.

 
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Post by PolarLight » Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 12:46 pm

Regency manual says, don't burn any coal in it, otherwise longeativity of stove could be effected.
I don't care about longeativity and durability of these stoves, because I am going to throw them away anyway. They are old and ugly.
About safety.
I am aware that antracite has higher burning temp then burning wood, and might melt the stove.


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