Alaska Kast Console Is Home
- 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
My Alaska stoker is home.
Now the project can begin.
Thanks, Mattaus!
Now the project can begin.
Thanks, Mattaus!
- av8r
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- Joined: Thu. Dec. 06, 2007 12:07 pm
- Location: Near Owego, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: Leisure Line Hearth with twin turbos (sounds like it)
Fire up the compressor and sandblaster and get it done!!
I like a project, but that looks like a mess. I'm sure it'll be great when you're finished.
I like a project, but that looks like a mess. I'm sure it'll be great when you're finished.
- 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
Actually, it's in very good condition, just needs a little pointin' up here and there.
I posted the photos because I took them right after I got everything into the cellar. I wanted a "before" photo on here, as opposed to the "after" photos later. Or maybe a few "in betweens".
What color(s) should it be?
I posted the photos because I took them right after I got everything into the cellar. I wanted a "before" photo on here, as opposed to the "after" photos later. Or maybe a few "in betweens".
What color(s) should it be?
- av8r
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- Location: Near Owego, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: Leisure Line Hearth with twin turbos (sounds like it)
I'd paint it Chevy Orange...heehehehWood'nCoal wrote:Actually, it's in very good condition, just needs a little pointin' up here and there.
I posted the photos because I took them right after I got everything into the cellar. I wanted a "before" photo on here, as opposed to the "after" photos later. Or maybe a few "in betweens".
What color(s) should it be?
- 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
That was one of the colors I was considering, and I have the paint.av8r wrote:I'd paint it Chevy Orange...heehehehWood'nCoal wrote:Actually, it's in very good condition, just needs a little pointin' up here and there.
I posted the photos because I took them right after I got everything into the cellar. I wanted a "before" photo on here, as opposed to the "after" photos later. Or maybe a few "in betweens".
What color(s) should it be?
- europachris
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- Location: N. Central Illinois
Yeah, you're lucky! Matthaus foisted off this project on me as a basket case w/no instructions or parts!
Best tool I found for the surfaces is a cheap angle grinder with wire cup wheel and also those 3M paint stripping pads you put in your drill that are like a real coarse abrasive Brillo pad. It's time consuming as he!!, but the results are worth it. Also, once most of the rust and paint is off, hit the stove with straight laquer thinner on a rag (wear nitrile gloves and LOTS of ventilation). The stove paint will melt right off and you'll be down to bare metal in no time. Using Stove-Brite charcoal color, you would not be able to tell my stove has ever been refinished - it looks factory new.
Best tool I found for the surfaces is a cheap angle grinder with wire cup wheel and also those 3M paint stripping pads you put in your drill that are like a real coarse abrasive Brillo pad. It's time consuming as he!!, but the results are worth it. Also, once most of the rust and paint is off, hit the stove with straight laquer thinner on a rag (wear nitrile gloves and LOTS of ventilation). The stove paint will melt right off and you'll be down to bare metal in no time. Using Stove-Brite charcoal color, you would not be able to tell my stove has ever been refinished - it looks factory new.
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- Joined: Fri. Jan. 26, 2007 9:55 pm
- Location: Birdsboro PA.
- Stoker Coal Boiler: EFM 350
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: reading allegheny stoker
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: alaska kodiak stoker 1986. 1987 triburner, 1987 crane diamond
- Coal Size/Type: rice
cool project......my alaska stove looks pretty much the same except it's red ......paint it ford blue hehe
somewhere in my files is the pile of parts that made up my efm stoker kit......only needed 500 bucks worth of stuff to get it goin lol......good luck with it!
scott
somewhere in my files is the pile of parts that made up my efm stoker kit......only needed 500 bucks worth of stuff to get it goin lol......good luck with it!
scott
- 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
You did a fantastic job on that stove, I can't believe it's the same one.europachris wrote:Yeah, you're lucky! Matthaus foisted off this project on me as a basket case w/no instructions or parts!
Best tool I found for the surfaces is a cheap angle grinder with wire cup wheel and also those 3M paint stripping pads you put in your drill that are like a real coarse abrasive Brillo pad. It's time consuming as he!!, but the results are worth it. Also, once most of the rust and paint is off, hit the stove with straight laquer thinner on a rag (wear nitrile gloves and LOTS of ventilation). The stove paint will melt right off and you'll be down to bare metal in no time. Using Stove-Brite charcoal color, you would not be able to tell my stove has ever been refinished - it looks factory new.
I only hope mine looks as good when it's done. Even though it's going to be installed in the cellar I 'm to much of a perfectionist to do a half-way job. If I wasn't this way, I wouldn't even bother painting it.
Thanks for the encouragement!
- av8r
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Matthaus is like the local illegal substance dealer...only his substance is iron!!europachris wrote:Yeah, you're lucky! Matthaus foisted off this project on me as a basket case w/no instructions or parts!
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It's part of my program of "No Stove left Behind". I am a hopeless junk collector, I see the possibilities where others see folly and too much work. The good thing is I have infected a few of you along the way. The Channing II I am selling on ebay right now was way worse than either of the ones I foisted on my fellow forum members. The Harman Magnum I sold recently was left outside in the weather for 6 months and ended up looking brand new!
Hooray for the resurrection of the derelict and despondent hunks of iron that used to burn coal with pride and service to humanity! Chris is the inspiration to start a whole new movement.
Just call me the Sanford and Sons wanna be from now on.
Hooray for the resurrection of the derelict and despondent hunks of iron that used to burn coal with pride and service to humanity! Chris is the inspiration to start a whole new movement.
Just call me the Sanford and Sons wanna be from now on.
- europachris
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I brought the stove home last February, and worked on it most of the summer on and off. I'd guess I have about 40 to 50 hours into the strip, repaint, and rebuild. The worst part was getting all the rust and caked on fly ash out of the stove, that was a mess. But, I did it outside on a windy day and let it all blow over to my neighbor's house......