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Post by robbo on Mar 6, 2017 10:44:50 GMT -8
Does anyone know anything about a traditional Slovene Peč ?
Any ideas about how to get the most efficient burn ?
Anyway to improve performance ?
Open to discussion/ideas as i am sat in front of one right now.
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Post by drooster on Mar 6, 2017 11:19:45 GMT -8
Robbo you're letting yourself in for a massive slew of "post photos" requests, and demands to know the internal gasways ...
Time to crawl right on in there and snap away.
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Post by robbo on Mar 6, 2017 11:37:09 GMT -8
The one I am sitting in front of is really simple, is effectively just what seems to be to be a single bell but laid on its side. Fire goes inside, no combustion chamber just a big empty space with the outlet behind a wall down the middle with a gap so the gases can go round the corner. Nothing like a Kuznetsov or Russian stove or even a Kachelofen with the elaborate gas pathways.
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Post by robbo on Mar 6, 2017 12:47:01 GMT -8
Robbo you're letting yourself in for a massive slew of "post photos" requests, and demands to know the internal gasways ... Time to crawl right on in there and snap away. Thanks for the warning drooster. I have tried to upload a pic (378 Kb) but get a message that the forum has exceeded is upload limit  |
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Post by Vortex on Mar 7, 2017 1:38:45 GMT -8
The forum has exceeded it's limit of uploaded content, so you have to host the pictures somewhere else and link to them from here. Google Drive and Photobucket seem to be popular.
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Post by robbo on Mar 7, 2017 2:31:29 GMT -8
Many thanks vortex, will setup photobucket and post links to pics.
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Post by drooster on Mar 7, 2017 10:19:23 GMT -8
... just a big empty space ... Interesting. My wife says the really OLD Russian stoves had huge fireboxes, big enough for a small person to crawl into to have a 'bath', like great-grandma did! |
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Post by peterberg on Mar 7, 2017 13:40:18 GMT -8
The one I am sitting in front of is really simple, is effectively just what seems to be to be a single bell but laid on its side. Fire goes inside, no combustion chamber just a big empty space with the outlet behind a wall down the middle with a gap so the gases can go round the corner. Nothing like a Kuznetsov or Russian stove or even a Kachelofen with the elaborate gas pathways. When the inside of that heater is just a big empty space, would it be an idea to contemplate about the possibility building a batch box rocket core in there? |
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Post by Vortex on Mar 7, 2017 14:28:12 GMT -8
... just a big empty space ... Interesting. My wife says the really OLD Russian stoves had huge fireboxes, big enough for a small person to crawl into to have a 'bath', like great-grandma did! This one looks pretty big: youtu.be/Ta8jUejeqDI?t=59 |
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Post by robbo on Mar 7, 2017 16:55:14 GMT -8
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Post by robbo on Mar 7, 2017 17:07:30 GMT -8
The one I am sitting in front of is really simple, is effectively just what seems to be to be a single bell but laid on its side. Fire goes inside, no combustion chamber just a big empty space with the outlet behind a wall down the middle with a gap so the gases can go round the corner. Nothing like a Kuznetsov or Russian stove or even a Kachelofen with the elaborate gas pathways. When the inside of that heater is just a big empty space, would it be an idea to contemplate about the possibility building a batch box rocket core in there? My instinct (and I have no experience in these matters and happily default to the experience of others on here) is that a rocket core in the range feeding in to the Peč could be quite an efficient way to go. My hunch being that the high temperature and efficient burn in the rocket gets the most out of the fuel and then the gas flow would slow down after entering the large internal area of the Peč giving maximum time for heat transfer to the mass. Natural gas flow principles applying so the hottest gases stay at the top and the cooler/ballast gases exit before going up the chimney. |
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Post by hadydalaii on Aug 21, 2020 14:13:23 GMT -8
speaking of russian stoves, those huge fireboxes they have (called "gornilo") were designed such way to:
1 - load a great amount of fuel, often REALLY BIG LOGS. having from 2,5 to 5 metric tons of mass, such stove could be fired once in 2 or 3 days and effectively warm the house;
2 - provide enough space for cooking inside the firebox once the fuel burns out. a big multipurpose oven.
3 - believe it or not, but warmed up and cleared of ash, the firebox was indeed used as a sauna of some sort to treat sick children (procedure called "re-baking").
despite that this thread is pretty old, if anyone wants to learn more about russian traditional stoves, i could provide some information and share my experience of building one about 3 years ago (and it still works perfectly, btw)
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