Oh yes baby, I am HAWT!
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- Location: SE Ohio - Carrolton/Kilgore/Perrysville -- inbetween
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Hitzer 82 FA
- Coal Size/Type: Reading NUT 40lb plastic bags
- Other Heating: Heat Pump
Bozo prize to whomever can beat that!
I'm going hotter.
- CoalHeat
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- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
- CoalHeat
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- Joined: Sat. Feb. 10, 2007 9:48 pm
- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
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- Location: SE Ohio - Carrolton/Kilgore/Perrysville -- inbetween
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Hitzer 82 FA
- Coal Size/Type: Reading NUT 40lb plastic bags
- Other Heating: Heat Pump
Decided to set it no higher, can use electric blanket if needed.
- CoalHeat
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- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
That is where I usually run it, air vent open 3/4 turn. The most I go is one turn, reading will go over 700 then. Amazing how a small change in underfire air affects the burn.
- warminmn
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- Location: Land of 11,842 lakes
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Chubby Junior, Efel Nestor Martin, Riteway 37
- Coal Size/Type: nut and stove anthracite, lignite
- Other Heating: Wood and wear a wool shirt
No way do I want my Riteway that hot as I'd be outside, but my temp magnet used to fall off once in a while on my last stove while burning off volatiles with secondary air.... trust me, there wasnt any danger, but I dont recommend it.
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- Joined: Sat. Apr. 04, 2015 10:36 pm
- Location: SE Ohio - Carrolton/Kilgore/Perrysville -- inbetween
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Hitzer 82 FA
- Coal Size/Type: Reading NUT 40lb plastic bags
- Other Heating: Heat Pump
I once (last year) had the bottom 1/4 of the loading door orange.
Kinda scared me, it was uncomfortable to stand within 6 feet.
Kinda scared me, it was uncomfortable to stand within 6 feet.
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- Location: Cape Cod, MA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: want AA130
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: DS Machine BS#4, Harman MKII, Hitzer 503,...
- Coal Size/Type: Pea/Nut/Stove
Had the top of my 503 Hitzer a dull orange...
Cast iron on the hopper loading door...
Magnets on the two thermometers permanently demagnetized...
lesson learned never walk away from the stove...
With the ash door open...
Full load of Nut coal...
For 5 hours...
Just goes to show ya...
Proper install...
And the setbacks...
Worthwhile investment...
Hitzers built like tank...
Stove suffered no damage...
House was still there too...
Cast iron on the hopper loading door...
Magnets on the two thermometers permanently demagnetized...
lesson learned never walk away from the stove...
With the ash door open...
Full load of Nut coal...
For 5 hours...
Just goes to show ya...
Proper install...
And the setbacks...
Worthwhile investment...
Hitzers built like tank...
Stove suffered no damage...
House was still there too...
- 2001Sierra
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- Joined: Wed. May. 20, 2009 8:09 am
- Location: Wynantskill NY, 10 miles from Albany
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Keystoker 90 Chimney vent
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
- Other Heating: Buderus Oil Boiler 3115-34
Uh Oh we have a thermometer war going on I only hope nobody gets hurt!
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: want AA130
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: DS Machine BS#4, Harman MKII, Hitzer 503,...
- Coal Size/Type: Pea/Nut/Stove
LOL...
More of a PSA...
Don't get too comfortable...
And get loose with the rules...
Because that is when bad chit can happen...
So I'm good for another 10 years...
Noe my 3 Kids at 7 & 6 are my alarm...
Daddy you can't leave the ash door open if you walk away...
More of a PSA...
Don't get too comfortable...
And get loose with the rules...
Because that is when bad chit can happen...
So I'm good for another 10 years...
Noe my 3 Kids at 7 & 6 are my alarm...
Daddy you can't leave the ash door open if you walk away...
- warminmn
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- Location: Land of 11,842 lakes
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Chubby Junior, Efel Nestor Martin, Riteway 37
- Coal Size/Type: nut and stove anthracite, lignite
- Other Heating: Wood and wear a wool shirt
Wow, I love these "HAWT" stories! I mostly think the pipes, or should I say the things that happen with them, cause more problems than the stoves. Exceptions of course with no firebricks in steel stoves, etc, but pipes are more fragile.
I remember seeing a Efel stove, same model as one that i used years ago, on Craigslist with the whole front glass panes warped and melted away for sale cheap. Obvious they left the bottom door open but I guess that probably caused the coal fire to go out with over fire air but it really caught my attention!
I remember seeing a Efel stove, same model as one that i used years ago, on Craigslist with the whole front glass panes warped and melted away for sale cheap. Obvious they left the bottom door open but I guess that probably caused the coal fire to go out with over fire air but it really caught my attention!
- artbaldoni
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- Location: Newville, PA
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Alaska Kodiak
- Other Heating: O W/C B
Top center on the Crane 404.
- 11ultra103
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- Location: Wannamakers, Pa
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hitzer 50-93, DS Comfortmax 75
- Coal Size/Type: Nut
Had the Hitzer turned up in this pic. I've seen the chimney on my woodstove between 800 and 1000 already
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My uncle forgot the Ash door open on his Hitzer 82. It got hot enough that the spring on the thermometer broke and launched the thermometer across the basement.