New Stove

Still on sale at our Menards, cant you order it in Omaha?

 

It's been a week. Where is it?

 

It's now saying that it's "not available on line". I guess I could go by the store and see if they can order it. Going to watch Craigslist for something used. My Quad works very well (just a little small) and I have no problem just using it.

 

Do you have this stove hooked up and running? Pic? Congrats on the new stove.

 

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That's too bad, my store (Spencer, Iowa) still has it listed for order.

 

I think he gets it later this month.

 

The stove is a plain black steel stove but build quality is very good.
It throws heat very well. The secondary action is different than a tube stove but I looked out at chimney no smoke at very low input air settings. Thats the ultimate test, no smoke. Glass stays very clean.

 

Soon as my taxes come back I am going to order mine in. Or maybe next payday, just wait to pay some stuff that won't be due yet.

 

The Myriad after using it more and more is really a nice stove.
Its amazing how much heat it radiates. It radiates so well that at coal stage the stove is still throwing alot of heat.
Ease of operation gets an A+. As that bypass damper open with the door cracked open lets I think alot more air to flow thru the stove for startups.
I have thrown some huge chunks in there and its amazing how fast it gets going on just a few coals. I think the increased air flow is the key.
Once I get lots of flames which isnt long. I close the door and the damper leave the air control wide open and let the stove heat up. Then once the stove is around 400 or so I cut the air back half way. Then when the stove top gets around 600 I cut back to having the air control rod 1" open as measured from the front lip of the ash lip. Then I will later move it slightly more to around 1/2 to 3/4 inch left open depending on the fire.

Last night it was 20 out and I woke up at 3am the house was 78 upstairs as the stoves in the basement family room. Never had that before. My old stove 2.1 cu ft would have had the house around 70-72. I had loaded the stove at 10pm.

 

When you oversize a stove, you can get more usable heat at lower temps, especially if you have a blower.

 

If my stove top has dropped to 250 but I have a lot of coals, by opening the air I can get the stove top back up to 350, then it slowly tails off as the coal be shrinks.

And that big load will sustain temps for longer, meaning less loading. That's why the Buck 91 wouldn't give you what you want; With the insert profile of the stove and only 2.8 useable, you can't get the load size you need.
HD, have you measured your useable fire box size on the Myriad? Now that's got me wondering about the Ideal Steel....probably missed the useable size in the posts somewhere....

 

Usable size of the Myriad that you can easily load. North/South 20" split , East/West 17.5 to 18" split , Height to stack is 13" without hitting the baffle and leave a little space. My estimation is usable space is about 3.0 cu ft box , its advertised 3.1 cu ft , actual box size but not usable size is almost 3.279 cu ft

When you get above the firebrick which there is alot of room above the fire brick you can load longer splits by another 1.5" as the split will go all the way back to the steel wall of the stove.

But the air channel coming up thru the middle of back wall makes loading a split right down the middle North/South has to be a little shorter.

 

Huntingdog- not sure if you are following my other thread on this stove, but I should be placing the order tomorrow after 3 PM.