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Post by tferr on Mar 2, 2022 16:14:29 GMT -8
Thanks josephcrawley I am in the recently acquired communist state formally known as Canada. I got the glass ordered today should be here early next week. I guess I better get my doors and combustion air figured out |
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Post by tferr on Jan 31, 2023 16:45:36 GMT -8
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Post by martyn on Feb 1, 2023 0:01:00 GMT -8
Looks good, how is it working?
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Post by tferr on Feb 1, 2023 3:52:05 GMT -8
It worked really good however as you can see I dont have a door made yet. Not sure my planned door is going to have enough draft.
Also my stack temps were too low. right around 100F on the way up. Maybe I have too much mass
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Post by martyn on Feb 1, 2023 4:27:28 GMT -8
Yes building is sometimes the easy part, fine tuning, trouble shooting and finishing the details can take just as long.
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tferr
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Post by tferr on Feb 1, 2023 5:46:48 GMT -8
hehe Well as you can see I'm no speed demon. Life is pretty busy along with other projects that take priority. I'm building a waste oil burner that I need to heat my shop.
Natural gas prices are getting unaffordable here in Canada Thanks to the Globalist dick tators and their bs carbon taxes
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Post by Vortex on Feb 1, 2023 5:53:33 GMT -8
It worked really good however as you can see I dont have a door made yet. Not sure my planned door is going to have enough draft. Also my stack temps were too low. right around 100F on the way up. Maybe I have too much mass 100f is low, 140f is said to be about optimum, but if it's working OK I wouldn't worry about it. I changed my primary air control about a year ago to something like an up-side-down letter box flap, that spreads the air out nicely across the whole front and avoids it blowing on the front of the fire. There's a picture of it couple of pages back in the vortex thread: donkey32.proboards.com/post/38162/thread |
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tferr
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Post by tferr on Feb 2, 2023 16:07:09 GMT -8
It worked really good however as you can see I dont have a door made yet. Not sure my planned door is going to have enough draft. Also my stack temps were too low. right around 100F on the way up. Maybe I have too much mass 100f is low, 140f is said to be about optimum, but if it's working OK I wouldn't worry about it. I changed my primary air control about a year ago to something like an up-side-down letter box flap, that spreads the air out nicely across the whole front and avoids it blowing on the front of the fire. There's a picture of it couple of pages back in the vortex thread: donkey32.proboards.com/post/38162/thread Hey Trev long time eh! I am waiting on my door. I have a 1" x 7" cut along the front bottom and I have two spin drafts of 2" circles up in each top corner. My son is cutting it out at his workplace. I may have to remove some mass to get my stack temps any higher. I am concerned that I may end up with it dripping condensation back down. Ihad a nice blue flame in the firebox at one point. It was so hot in there I couldnt hardly get a stick of wood in there without gloves on I had some smoke come out of the top on the start up. All in allI was veryhappy with the initial run |
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