Glenwood 116 to Help Out Little Tiget

Brilliant, the extension for wood. I'm actually not thinking of buying it,. but was hoping someone here would. It's very beautiful.

Nice windows. Not a brand name I recognize for here in the States.

Paul

Wren wrote: ↑

Thu. Nov. 05, 2020 9:37 am

Brilliant, the extension for wood. I'm actually not thinking of buying it,. but was hoping someone here would. It's very beautiful.

Oh, thought you were looking to move up, heat-wise.

Speaking of stove output, have you replaced the top plates on your range yet ?

Just replaced the T's and I's on mine after 12-13 years of hard use has caused them to warp some and form gaps of about 1/16 inch in the middle of the plates over, and next to, the firebed. Doesn't sound like much of an over-fire air leak, but what a difference it made.

Lately I was struggling to get and keep the stove hot,... even with a strong draft when it was near freezing outside. Today it's 70 F outside and I have to really damper it to slow it down.

Paul

No I haven't. I'm using tin foil. Classy fix. Meant to.
This is a small town! No Hunter Douglas or Pella here. I so often wish I had never come.
Oh... I need a few other projects out of the way and then if I found an enamel Gold Medal I'd be tempted. This stove needs o be taken apart and put back together but not by me. I just use tin foil and fiberglass.
Yes. But I'd love someone to run that E and post pictures.

We are having s warm week too. I'm old and stubborn but I don't believe in plastic windows. Gas in the glass is interesting though. Wood is better.

Wren wrote: ↑

Thu. Nov. 05, 2020 6:40 pm

No I haven't. I'm using tin foil. Classy fix. Meant to.
This is a small town! No Hunter Douglas or Pella here. I so often wish I had never come.
Oh... I need a few other projects out of the way and then if I found an enamel Gold Medal I'd be tempted. This stove needs o be taken apart and put back together but not by me. I just use tin foil and fiberglass.
Yes. But I'd love someone to run that E and post pictures.

Your wish has been answered. In the Cookin' With Coal thread Kevin (Merc) ran a Model E for awhile and posted pix.

Paul

No way!!!! I'm off to read it. Nice start to the weekend! Thank you CoalPail.

I found it! Superb. Beautiful. Yeah that stove on eBay could use his touch.
That's a nice picture too. I can't believe I commented on the toast pictures that follow. These last year's have gone so quickly I don't remember half of it.

Burning wood in the range and coal in the 116. I'm upstairs reading a book and can smell woodsmoke but am too lazy to go down and open the air a bit.

I'm going. Sometimes I think I haven't sat down for ten minutes since 1978 but I know it's not true. My eyes are watering slightly.

Wren wrote: ↑

Fri. Nov. 13, 2020 8:14 pm

Burning wood in the range and coal in the 116. I'm upstairs reading a book and can smell woodsmoke but am too lazy to go down and open the air a bit.

I'm going. Sometimes I think I haven't sat down for ten minutes since 1978 but I know it's not true. My eyes are watering slightly.

That's the top plates leaking. Mine used to do the same. And, the kitchen would get real sulfur-y right after refueling with coal. Got a piece of sheet metal, or heavy duty aluminum foil to lay over the plates above the firebox end, just to help cut down on the over-fire leaks ?

Paul

That would be a better way of doing it! Yes I could do that. I used foil around the edges but I'll just lay it flat.
The air current in the house takes everything into the back bedroom.

Beautiful dry wood. Mixed elm, oak, and cedar to split for kindling. But I don't want a driveway full of wood, or a back hall full of wood, and I especially don't want it in the 116. The range was warped by wood years ago and doesn't care.
The pandemic is getting dirty now.

But, those guys who created a stove that can burn coal wood or peat are still brilliant. It's below freezing and I'm fine.
The couple who sell the wood came in and tapped my stoves and approved them because they are cast, not tin. They showed me a photo of their stove, with warming cupboards, and I did not say that his cousin told me how his wife(present) carried on until she got it(way,way back). And the told me that the burner that comes apart should be in front of the pipe and is used to slow the draft but he like my check damper and examined how the air runs in bake mode.
I may try some peat just for fun. These stoves were versatile and boy, that's what we need to be nowadays too. So I might not whine after all that I'll be getting a lousy chainsaw and converting the back porch into stalls for range wood(he says his cousin calls it pencils), day burning wood, heavy hickory nightwood that they tried to show me is different but I have trouble, and cedar for kindling.
I'm trying to remember those agile souls that ran these stoves long ago.
Dropped by my daughter's house briefly and looked up from the baby as it was so nice to hear her laughing and laughing, but she was telling her husband " it was so hot" stories about when she and her brother were still here and coal was burning.
I said I dont make that mistake so often now and he said, "So you're admitting it happened more than once...." And that set them off again. Horrid children.

Actually I remember him part of a group that came in when it was about forty below, and he drew close to the 116(as close as safely possible) and said something very appreciative and that he was going to turn the heater in his bedroom up to ten when he got home. So they can laugh now....