Paul,Sunny Boy wrote:Dave,
Don't you have your Glenwood #6 set up with the firepot liner much higher than it would be originally? If so, then yeah, the mag wouldn't add much with your stove.
Going by my measurements using nut and stove coal, a #6 with the firepot liner at the original height would gain about 20 pounds of coal in the magazine. That's about a 40% increase in coal inside the stove.
Paul
Not really, my liner (which I'm going to take out) is about where the top of the gas ring would sit. It might be slightly higher but not much if it is higher. What I used to do, before the magazine was in, when I wanted a particularly long burn, is the pile the coal up in a large pile on top of that location. Now the bottom of the magazine gets in the way of doing that. So given that the magazine is fairly narrow, the amount of coal it holds isn't much more than what that pile would be. Now if you could build a magazine that got a lot fatter going up to the top of the stove, now that would be a real benefit. My Vermont magazine is built that way.
I agree, you get about 20 pounds of coal in the magazine. So you are saying you get 50 pounds in the firepot - I get more than that. Mine holds more like 60 to 65 pounds in the firepot. Heaping it up I probably add another 15 pounds. So that doesn't seem to be right to me. At least not for my stove. Maybe my liner is thinner than yours... Also, that's why I'm taking my liner out this year.... I want more coal in the firepot for longer burn times and better heat transfer to the room. So currently I don't gain a lot of coal in the stove running the magazine. It does help even out the fire at reloading...
dj