Repairing Cracks in stove base?

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SeelieForest
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Post by SeelieForest » Tue. May. 17, 2022 6:49 pm

I have an old cast iron Round Oak stove with some major cracks in the ash tray, where the upper body attaches to the ash base.

The cracks have gaps of perhaps 1/4th inch in places, but the thing is still together and moves around without falling apart.

So I was going to just fill the cracks with furnace cement and hope for the best. But then discovered some others here with old stoves (and other restorations being done), so figured I'd ask if anyone had other suggestions to repairing these cracks in an affordable way?


 
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D-frost
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Post by D-frost » Wed. May. 18, 2022 7:43 am

See...........
If you are able to post a pic of the pan area............"a picture is worth a thousand words"

Without a pic, I would suggest that JB weld for manifolds might work......it depends........
Cheers

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