I am new here, and happy to be here, and happy to see some others own and have posted about this cool little stove; I got one back in May, had it installed in June, and am just now firing it up for the first time, right now! I have a 570 sqft house and I am thinking I will be super toasty this Michigan winter I have lived in houses where I heated with wood but this is the first stove I have ever bought and installed in a home I own. So it is pretty exciting... Question: the manual states in capitals DO NOT PUT ANYTHING ON THE STOVE OR PIPES UNTIL THE STOVE HAS BEEN SEASONED but then it says to engage the secondary combustion thingy when the magnetic thermometer that you have placed on the single-walled stove pipe, approx. 8" from stove top, is @ 250 degrees... for one, I have double-walled pipes, and for two it said not to have ANYTHING on the stove or pipes for the first couple burns until it has "cured" (I ignored this and stove has suffered no repercussions thus far). For the future, does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should convert the temperature from 250 degrees on a single-walled pipe to a temp for a double-walled pipe? Thanks and happy to be here-looks like a fun site
Welcome Kron...and congrats on the new stove! You need a probe type thermometer for double wall pipe. Condar stovepipe probe thermometers
Internal temperatures as read by a probe meter in double wall pipe are approximately twice as high as surface temperatures as read with a magnetic surface meter on single wall pipe. So shoot for 500 internal.
Welcome Krondalou I’m sure you’ll find your answers here soon. Congratulations on your new stove! Action pictures are almost mandatory around here when you get the chance. We all love stove pictures.
To "cure or season" the new stove, build a series of small fires. Don't build a rip-roaring fire in it. By doing this, it gives the fresh paint a chance to off gas and smoke a lot less than it would if you just go ahead and build a normal fire in it. Does your double wall pipe attach right to the stove? Or is there a piece of single wall pipe first? If you do indeed have a piece of single wall pipe, depending on how much of it you have, you could very well use the magnetic thermometer. Welcome aboard! Pics would help out a lot as "we" are pretty much reading challenged on this site!
Welcome to the forum Krondalou. First question has to be, "Did you call Woodstock to ask these same questions?" As for quick conversion you probably can't go wrong by using 125 degrees on double walled pipe.
Nifty stove! Some very pleased users out there already. A few pics would be appropriate! As a matter of fact I have a magnetic temp gauge on my double wall that reads right around 125F when the stove is cruising nicely. Mine is about 18 inch's above the stove top. I just use my temp meter as a quick visual reference to be sure the stove is still running in it's sweet spot.
It's unfortuitously possible for an item left on curing paint to make a permanent stain. If you had a spare single wall pipe lying around you could play and observe. Or not. There's a lot some interest in that stove so share your observations this Winter.
