Secondary Air for Buck Combo Stove

 
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Post by corey » Sat. Jan. 30, 2016 1:38 pm

Hi everyone been a while since I've been on. Finally bought a ton of Kentucky lump coal. Just finding out that it would help if the stove had above air for the gases. Could I just drill a few holes maybe mount a spin wheel?


 
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Post by SWPaDon » Sat. Jan. 30, 2016 2:36 pm

Some have added secondary air to their load doors. Member Lightning as well as Kyspeedracer have done the air tube modification for secondary air.

 
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Post by warminmn » Sat. Jan. 30, 2016 3:00 pm

A spinner would work fine. Pipes work better. Do a search for secondary air and you will find posts and pics of what a few of us have done. You are only limited by your imagination and skills. It is very inexpensive to buy a hole saw, a couple feet of 1" pipe, connections, and a drill bit for the holes. Having used smaller, I will have to recommend 1" pipes if possible, and if you go that route.

 
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Post by corey » Sat. Jan. 30, 2016 3:18 pm

Thanks for the advice I'm going to look into it.

 
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Post by just peter » Sun. Jan. 31, 2016 12:05 pm

My little Altan stove has the secondary heat in de loading door at the top of the stove, with a droplet shaped valve.
It works that good, that if iload the stove and the gas start burning the stove give's a roar, where the rocketstove guy's alway's bracking about :) .

Peter.

 
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Post by just peter » Sun. Jan. 31, 2016 12:41 pm

I made a few picture's, you know one picture is worth a thousand words.

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Post by Lightning » Sun. Jan. 31, 2016 12:58 pm

corey wrote:Hi everyone been a while since I've been on. Finally bought a ton of Kentucky lump coal. Just finding out that it would help if the stove had above air for the gases. Could I just drill a few holes maybe mount a spin wheel?
I'm not sure what your stove looks like, here is what I've done..

Secondary Air Distribution System


 
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Post by warminmn » Sun. Jan. 31, 2016 1:04 pm

just peter wrote:My little Altan stove has the secondary heat in de loading door at the top of the stove, with a droplet shaped valve.
It works that good, that if iload the stove and the gas start burning the stove give's a roar, where the rocketstove guy's alway's bracking about :) .

Peter.
They made stoves here like that about 100 years ago. They were called hotblast stoves and were made by several companies. There is a new stove called hotblast and that is different. Yours looks very simple and I bet it works good.

 
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Post by corey » Sun. Jan. 31, 2016 1:06 pm

just peter wrote:I made a few picture's, you know one picture is worth a thousand words.
Thankyou.

 
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Post by corey » Sun. Jan. 31, 2016 1:08 pm

Lightning wrote:
corey wrote:Hi everyone been a while since I've been on. Finally bought a ton of Kentucky lump coal. Just finding out that it would help if the stove had above air for the gases. Could I just drill a few holes maybe mount a spin wheel?
I'm not sure what your stove looks like, here is what I've done..

Secondary Air Distribution System
Thankyou you going to do mods this summer I looked at the pipes you done a while back

 
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Post by just peter » Sun. Jan. 31, 2016 2:39 pm

Warminmn, you won the bet :D
It is a simple stove but it works verry well.
The old American hotblast looking better though.

Peter.

 
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Post by corey » Sun. Jan. 31, 2016 3:29 pm

Got the plan going need to let the stove cool. Pics to come soon.

 
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Post by corey » Wed. Feb. 03, 2016 8:11 pm

Not going to do these mods the reason is my chimney just needed a good cleaning. Had not swept it in over a year. Stove burns the coal fine now

 
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Post by warminmn » Wed. Feb. 03, 2016 9:11 pm

with soft coal you need to clean your chimney more often, but Im glad it all worked out!

 
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Post by corey » Thu. Feb. 04, 2016 6:27 am

warminmn wrote:with soft coal you need to clean your chimney more often, but Im glad it all worked out!
Thankyou you. Things are all good I just made an example here about cleaning the pipes.


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