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Post by josephcrawley on Feb 18, 2015 12:15:41 GMT -8
When building a door for a horizontal feed should I bother with making the door air tight? If so how have others gone about this? I can picture a gasket grove in either the frame or the door but since a buddy would be doing the welding for me I don't want to impose to much.
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Post by Vortex on Feb 18, 2015 16:11:53 GMT -8
I've made the grove before by cutting one side off of 10mm box section steel, the large stove rope fits in it OK. Stanley make a flat sticky stove rope that is meant for putting around the edges of the glass, but it also works well to seal stove doors that dont have a groove, I used it to seal around my ash box.
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Post by josephcrawley on Feb 18, 2015 18:30:52 GMT -8
Maybe I could use a sheet metal break and make an angle iron piece and tack it to the frame and put rope in that. So you think a metal to metal door would leak to much air?
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Post by DCish on Feb 21, 2015 11:32:14 GMT -8
Yes, metal to metal would leak to much air.
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Post by morticcio on Feb 22, 2015 2:27:45 GMT -8
My door sits approx 2 or 3mm proud of the frame. Round the door I used two 3mm x 8mm strips to make a channel to seat the rope. On the frame there is a 3mm x 4mm strip which fits in the middle of the channel on the door. When the door is closed this presses on the rope effectively forming a gas tight seal. There is a slight angle on the lug which closes the door tighter when the door handle is fully shut. Hope that makes sense! I also put another channel just below the P- channel to seal this from the firebox. Edit... Easier to explain with a photo!  |
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