Re: Locke Stove Company Warm Morning Model 120
Posted: Sat. Jan. 27, 2018 7:59 am
Wow! Its been a month or so heating with coal. It is awesome, I am so pleased with the stove. I would extoll the heating source's virtues, but you already know them.
So here is my update. Last we spoke, the shaker grate is bowed causing the shaker brackets to be spread apart so far that the shaker just falls through them. I wired the shaker in place just so I could use it for heating until summer. This worked well for a couple weeks however, the outer support ring is bowed also, so the shaker grate fell through.
I order a new shaker grate from Mountain View Hearth Products. The product arrived in two days. Its a sand cast part that appeared to be well made. I removed the original grate and installed the new one. The new grate bracket spacing is too narrow for my shaker or the front of my shaker is too wide for the brackets. I appears the sand casting has left nodules of metal around the brackets. I had to installed the shaker backwards, instead sliding the leading edge forward into the brackets, I pulled the shaker back through the brackets. On Monday I will have the machine shop fit the pieces together.
The new shaker grate matches the dimensions of the original one, but now I see the outer support is bowed also. In the summer, I'll pull apart the stove, potential have the machine shop make me a new grating or purchase a new grating.
For those in the Brattleboro, VT or surrounded area, Agway on Putney Road is good source of cost effective fuel ($6.99 per 40 pound bag of nut coal). Beware that the bags sits outside on plastic wrapped pallets. Many of the bags I have purchased contained water. The first time I dumped a half a hod of coal on the wood coals, the fire was extinguished like a light bulb. I buy four at a time and keep them near the stove, this allows them to dry out.
I appreciate all the support you have provided me. Thank you very much.
So here is my update. Last we spoke, the shaker grate is bowed causing the shaker brackets to be spread apart so far that the shaker just falls through them. I wired the shaker in place just so I could use it for heating until summer. This worked well for a couple weeks however, the outer support ring is bowed also, so the shaker grate fell through.
I order a new shaker grate from Mountain View Hearth Products. The product arrived in two days. Its a sand cast part that appeared to be well made. I removed the original grate and installed the new one. The new grate bracket spacing is too narrow for my shaker or the front of my shaker is too wide for the brackets. I appears the sand casting has left nodules of metal around the brackets. I had to installed the shaker backwards, instead sliding the leading edge forward into the brackets, I pulled the shaker back through the brackets. On Monday I will have the machine shop fit the pieces together.
The new shaker grate matches the dimensions of the original one, but now I see the outer support is bowed also. In the summer, I'll pull apart the stove, potential have the machine shop make me a new grating or purchase a new grating.
For those in the Brattleboro, VT or surrounded area, Agway on Putney Road is good source of cost effective fuel ($6.99 per 40 pound bag of nut coal). Beware that the bags sits outside on plastic wrapped pallets. Many of the bags I have purchased contained water. The first time I dumped a half a hod of coal on the wood coals, the fire was extinguished like a light bulb. I buy four at a time and keep them near the stove, this allows them to dry out.
I appreciate all the support you have provided me. Thank you very much.