You must have the really good coal.Pauliewog wrote: ↑Mon. Apr. 09, 2018 5:29 pmI'm with Sunny Boy on that idea. After the fire department gets done hosing the stove down, yer gonna have axe holes to patch in the roof and a lot of parts to have recast !
The axle grease should hold up well in the summer and also act as a no pest strip. ....... a good place for the flies and mosquitos to stick.
If you marinate the bricks in gear oil...... That should keep everything from sticking around.
I'm not sure if there is any type of coating other than something like Teflon that will eliminate the clinker buildup. Once Teflon is scratched up, that doesn't help anyway.
Like I mentioned before, I never had that type of buildup in over 50 years of burning coal with any of my stoves.
Paulie
Try it with red ash coal that has lots of iron in it. It's like somebody arc welded iron clinkers into the bricks. And being that the fused iron is all an oxide, trying to grind it off it gets to be quite a challenge.
Paul