Paint Bubbled and Smoked up House on New Pipe???
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I installed a new t-pipe out the back of my coal stove. 2 minutes after I lit it the paint on the pipe bubbled up and smoked up the house. What caused this?
Let me take a stab at the answer........HEAT!!firstquality1103 wrote:I installed a new t-pipe out the back of my coal stove. 2 minutes after I lit it the paint on the pipe bubbled up and smoked up the house. What caused this?
(sorry...couldn't resist )
Sounds like pretty cheap pipe too. All pipe will smell until cured by heat but it shouldn't "bubbble". How hot were you running your stove?
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A lot of black painted stove pipe does that nowadays. It generally looks bad from then on and you get black gunk on you if you touch it. Don't touch it when it's hot!
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My guess would be that the pipe did NOT have high temp paint on it. It may have been scratched and someone threw on some cheap rattle can paint to make it look pretty.
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The Lowes black pipe I got has held up well and the paint is intact. The annoying bar code stickers were still intact until the pipe temperature went over 250 a couple times. I had to scrape them off and some of the adhesive was left. This actually acts as a warning to me, I start to smell it when the stack temp gets too hot!
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i'm using black pipe from tractor supply......all is fine.....no bubbling, just the annoying stickers with hitlers mustache