Got mine dragged in. Heavy bastard, she is. Not all that impressed with the refractory. Pretty cheap. Then again maybe my views are a little skewed by the high alumina brick I use at work that costs $60,000 per ton... We will see how long this stuff lasts. I will probably replace it with scraps from the reline coming up next month.
How's it working out for you Dan? I was a little skeptical on the cheap feeling brick too but like you I have a fair share of "the good kind" laying around from when I worked at a factory that re-lined their boiler one summer. It comes in handy now and then. So far I haven't had a reason to be concerned with them though so I'll just run them until they fall apart I suspect. According to my wife who is working from home again today because of the snow; ours is working WAAAAY too good. I threw three splits in yesterday morning and got them rolling good and the stove shut down before I left. When I got home last night she cussed me out when I went for the stove. She had the kitchen window open all day while working in shorts and a t-shirt and it was still 78 in the house. There was barely enough coals to relight it at 830 last night when she finally allowed me to get near it. 3 more splits and it was good to go until 7am this morning with the house at 75. She told me that whatever I did to it yesterday do 1/2 today so two small splits and shutdown before I left. Granted the last couple days have been in the low to mid 20's but with a decent breeze. I'm more than happy with how this thing heats! Almost makes me want to sell the Answer and get another one of these to have one on each floor.
i tell mine that just means it is time to take another layer off. Married with no kids, we can get away with those kind of shenanigans.... I haven't got the new stove in yet. Got a couple new sections of pipe, the new stove is sitting next to the old one. Suppose to be cold through friday then warm up again. I will probably tackle it this weekend.
I tried with the layers idea but she wasn't having any of it! Plus it might be awkward when the kids get home from school! Oh well. I was lucky enough to get away with using the original (black) pipe. I'd recommend throwing some furnace cement or high temp RTV in the joints, I'm going to go back and do that myself.
