Home Sparkle #12 Is Home

I don't use my check damper anymore, after last years fiasco. My draft is consistently fine, and I must've clogged my base passages using it wrong last year, cause it took a while in the spring to vacuum them out. I'm curious to know what those chambers will look like coming this next spring.
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scalabro wrote: ↑

Sat. Dec. 16, 2017 9:57 am

Never shake down a cylinder stove with the check open especially if you have a horizontal stove pipe

...or in base mode. Of the 4 openings in my check damper, 3 are covered with sheet metal and furnace cement as the new check damper slide plate doesn't seal all that well so I don't use it. As previously noted I did make room for a baro if needed but so far all is well. My ash pan door and primary air vent seal very well and the opening around the grate handle above the ash pan door adds just enough air to keep the stove satified at idle. I just emptied a shoe box size of grey fluff ash, it might have weighed a pound after 24 hrs. The Vigilant is going to have a good fight on it's hands when the head to head begins. I'll need to even the playing field with a few bads of Blashack pea for the Vigilant as my stove coal is A1.

Maybe I missed it Mikey, but have you used the Mano on this rig?

I have burned stove coal in the Vigilant with no problem.

scalabro wrote: ↑

Sat. Dec. 16, 2017 8:56 pm

Maybe I missed it Mikey, but have you used the Mano on this rig?

...not yet, I'm planning assembly of the Vig in the basement, that will free up the mano from the decommissioned box stove. Santa might leave one behind

Gotcha

franco b wrote: ↑

Sat. Dec. 16, 2017 9:11 pm

I have burned stove coal in the Vigilant with no problem.

I will try stove coal as well, the last time I tried it didn't work out. The 8 additional feet of chimney in the basement might do the trick

After Sunday night's Patriot's unimaginable winner vs. the Steelers and all the post game genius talk I loaded HB12 with approx 30 lbs of black beauties and let her ride until tonight. On idle I'm holding a nice fire with the mpd 50% closed , 350* on the lower barrel, and 210 on the top for almost 2 days. Outside temps have been between 6* overnight and today's high of 20* with one living room window open a couple inches for a nice 76* indoor temp.

Isn't life grand?

saaaaawheet. that's REAL good performance.

scalabro wrote: ↑

Sat. Dec. 16, 2017 8:56 pm

Maybe I missed it Mikey, but have you used the Mano on this rig?

I hooked up the mano Scott and I'm not surprised given the fact there is a mile high mountain in my back yard. On a calm day you can fly a kite up here. This was taken a couple of days ago, on a calm day the stove runs .04 -.08...tonight it's crazy!

Get that baro on there boy!

is that the new Mark ll ? kind of different from mine but either way that's alot of draft though it seems you've been pretty successful running the stove without knowing it was that high.

here's mine steve

having reread the post i see this level is not the norm but part of the storm conditions in your area.

let it be said, let it be writtin'
This is with 40 -50 mph wind gusts...I'll take it. Otherwise .04-.06

KingCoal wrote: ↑

Thu. Jan. 04, 2018 7:15 pm

is that the new Mark ll ? kind of different from mine but either way that's alot of draft though it seems you've been pretty successful running the stove without knowing it was that high.

here's mine IMG_2043.gif

steve

having reread the post i see this level is not the norm but part of the storm conditions in your area.

The mano was an ebay bait n' switch...show a picture of your mano and this is what I got. 7-8 yrs ago I needed one so I kept it.

I did notice an immediate change in the stove. The blues would love to dive down the front of the fire pot because of the strong draft (I had to lower the exit on the rear pipe to appease the low fireplace)...now more blues are climbing to the rear of the fire pot and diving, less draft-more balance.

It sure is a nice storm just the same...boy I love coal in a hand fed antique or not!