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[crash325]

Yesterday it got up to 107 deg. This AM i went outside just after daylight and it was only 70. Had a few little things to do before starting a fire in the new stove. Chances are it was only up to about 80 by the time a fire was started.

New Cook / Heat, stove needed to be heated as hot as I could get it, Want the metal to relax, check welds to make sure they are all sealed. Hoped to get it red hot or almost red, but too much thermal mass to get it that hot. A little over 2 hours of burning with all the wood I could get in it. Mostly pine and any kind of scrap. Another thing I wanted to check was the heat pattern as it got hot. Picture 3 shows how the heat spreads.

No creaking or groaning as it got hot, when choked down to make it smoke only leak was around the door. The door will be sealed when stove is actually completed.

The center of the top puckered up, it was hammered back flat. Other than that no problems. Tomorrow will be a repeat of today's fun. :laughing:

After tomorrows heat cycle all the little finish up items will get done, sanding and paint. Then 2 more fires and its ready to install.

Today its a lot cooler than yesterday. At 3 PM its only 104 deg.

 

[clemsonfor]

Yesterday it got up to 107 deg. This AM i went outside just after daylight and it was only 70. Had a few little things to do before starting a fire in the new stove. Chances are it was only up to about 80 by the time a fire was started.

New Cook / Heat, stove needed to be heated as hot as I could get it, Want the metal to relax, check welds to make sure they are all sealed. Hoped to get it red hot or almost red, but too much thermal mass to get it that hot. A little over 2 hours of burning with all the wood I could get in it. Mostly pine and any kind of scrap. Another thing I wanted to check was the heat pattern as it got hot. Picture 3 shows how the heat spreads.

No creaking or groaning as it got hot, when choked down to make it smoke only leak was around the door. The door will be sealed when stove is actually completed.

The center of the top puckered up, it was hammered back flat. Other than that no problems. Tomorrow will be a repeat of today's fun. :laughing:

After tomorrows heat cycle all the little finish up items will get done, sanding and paint. Then 2 more fires and its ready to install.

Today its a lot cooler than yesterday. At 3 PM its only 104 deg.

Your putting that in your living room right. :laughing:

 

[polo1665]

Yesterday it got up to 107 deg. This AM i went outside just after daylight and it was only 70. Had a few little things to do before starting a fire in the new stove. Chances are it was only up to about 80 by the time a fire was started.

New Cook / Heat, stove needed to be heated as hot as I could get it, Want the metal to relax, check welds to make sure they are all sealed. Hoped to get it red hot or almost red, but too much thermal mass to get it that hot. A little over 2 hours of burning with all the wood I could get in it. Mostly pine and any kind of scrap. Another thing I wanted to check was the heat pattern as it got hot. Picture 3 shows how the heat spreads.

No creaking or groaning as it got hot, when choked down to make it smoke only leak was around the door. The door will be sealed when stove is actually completed.

The center of the top puckered up, it was hammered back flat. Other than that no problems. Tomorrow will be a repeat of today's fun. :laughing:

After tomorrows heat cycle all the little finish up items will get done, sanding and paint. Then 2 more fires and its ready to install.

Today its a lot cooler than yesterday. At 3 PM its only 104 deg.

Any Idea how hot you got it?

 

[crash325]

Any Idea how hot you got it?

Think it got up to around 800deg. F. Center has gone past blue and that is around 600 f. Whole top got into the blue / purple color and the center got a lot hotter. That's not quite enough to completely relax the metal, but much hotter than anyone would want to get it for cooking or heating.

Yep gona get it into the living room right away, never know when a cold snap may hit. Could cool right down to 99F any day now. :laughing: :thumbsup:

 

[crash325]

At last the cooking / heating stove is done & ready to install. :thumbsup: It's the 4th ( not counting my out door stove.) and was more trouble than the first 3 put together. Almost nothing went right. Was beginning to think it would never be finished.

It has had 4 fires built in it and is as good for cooking as I had hoped. Kept the fire going long enough to boil some potatoes. The warming plate got the coffee pot to about the right temp. for drinking. :licking: When set on stove top, it boiled in about 30 seconds. Old skillet boiled water in about 4 minuets. No I didn't ruin a cast iron skillet, it's one I'm trying to restore after laying out in a yard for years.

Wood consumption will be quite low. Once a fair bed of coals is built up, it stays cooking hot for over an hour with no attention. Takes about 4 /5 minuets to get top hot. Second load of wood keeps it going for well over an hour even when burning hot.

 

[magicheater]

At last the cooking / heating stove is done & ready to install. :thumbsup: It's the 4th ( not counting my out door stove.) and was more trouble than the first 3 put together. Almost nothing went right. Was beginning to think it would never be finished.

It has had 4 fires built in it and is as good for cooking as I had hoped. Kept the fire going long enough to boil some potatoes. The warming plate got the coffee pot to about the right temp. for drinking. :licking: When set on stove top, it boiled in about 30 seconds. Old skillet boiled water in about 4 minuets. No I didn't ruin a cast iron skillet, it's one I'm trying to restore after laying out in a yard for years.

Wood consumption will be quite low. Once a fair bed of coals is built up, it stays cooking hot for over an hour with no attention. Takes about 4 /5 minuets to get top hot. Second load of wood keeps it going for well over an hour even when burning hot.

NICE! Do you have any fire brick in the combustion chamber or is the plan for really quick heat? Is there additional combustion air introduced other than the draft opening shown in the door? From what I know of Arizona it can be really hot in the day and quite cold at night, looks like you have what you need! :thumbsup:

 

[crash325]

NICE! Do you have any fire brick in the combustion chamber or is the plan for really quick heat? Is there additional combustion air introduced other than the draft opening shown in the door? From what I know of Arizona it can be really hot in the day and quite cold at night, looks like you have what you need! :thumbsup:

Hi Magic,
No fire bricks, but a lot of thermal mass. Center of cook top heats pretty quickly. The side areas come up fairly slow as there is a lot of metal out there.

It stays hot for a long time after the fire is long gone. This one is for a neighbor, was going to build it for myself, but he wanted it. Will build another for myself, to replace my heat stove that I built 2 years ago.

Your right about temp. swings, can be 85 in the day and next AM freezing.

 

[lockhaven]

you may want to season that skillet a bit more before cooking the bacon.:laughing:

 

[crash325]

you may want to season that skillet a bit more before cooking the bacon.:laughing:

Was on a cleanup job and it was laying in the yard, had been there a LONG time. Someone had turned whatever they were cooking into charcoal and cooked it in. Ground it out, but needs a little more as it is pitted pretty deep.
Then a couple of hot oil & salt treatments and it will be good to go, :thumbsup: