Hey all, I thought I might share this with ya. I bought this fisher insert about a year ago for $150 off craigslist and it sat under my porch for months until I decided to start cleaning it up. Came out just fine with a bit of elbow grease and new glass and some new hinge pins. After much cursing and swearing and struggling I got we in for like a glove and hooked up a ss flue liner I tell ya this thing is a beast..it sure does crank out the heat. I believe it is a "honey bear" which I think is the same as a grandma bear (correct me if I'm wrong). Im throwing 24" or longer logs in there!!!! It's 31" deep!!! I'm also looking for ways to get a blower fabbed..I bought an ecofan which works good but just doesn't seem to be good enough. It's free so that's why I like it. Anyways guys here's a couple pics let me know what ya think. Cheers!
Love the Fisher stoves and inserts. Especially this one with the glass doors. I always love to see the fire and appreciate it. Great job cleaning it up and getting it back in working order. Looking great! LG Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Welcome woodguy -You're gonna like it here, I guarantee it---It appears you'll fit in just fine-We'll counsel your addiction, enable your inner-hoarder and caution you to take everything that Eric VW says with a very minute grain of salt and grin of grandeur...he's a nut, but we'll keep him...Nice to meet ya
Hey there woodguy , Nice looking set up there, but I'm glad I'm not your neighbor. You'd be knocking on my door asking for help to move that beast up into the house. I bet she weighed heavy, she did.
Thanks a lot everyone! It's great to be able to chat with like minded people. My wife thinks I'm a geek talking about stoves and firewood all the time and going out picking up free fire wood off people. I don't care...when the gas bill comes and I see that I've reduced the gas consumption by 62%...all of a sudden it's not so geeky haha. I love it. My dad had a wood stove back when I was a kid and I've been hooked ever since. I'm glad I came across this site. On a side note has anyone ever heard of a "acorn voyageur" free standing woodstove?
"She's a beaut Clark"! You did a good job cleanin er up. I've got a grandma bear in my basement and a grandpa bear in the shop ready for a refurb. They're awesome stoves. WeldrDave is our resident fisher nut.... i mean expert. Oh and Coaly too!
Pics are too far away, but it looks like a Full size "Brass and Glass" Series III Insert. You have very early doors with the first style intake slider vents. Honey Bear is much smaller. They use the same bent handles so the door handles look oversize on a Honey Bear. Honey Bear vent Door and glass comparison to same handles. Honey has air wash slider ends visible in pic above and below hinges at right. Full size has slot under doors with 2 slider vents through front with the smaller springs. Full size Insert close up painted to look like Brass and Glass model. The "other" site has a Fisher Forum with thread for designing your own blower with specs of factory blowers. Links will not work here. Down to page 4 "Made a Blower for my Fisher Insert". Other threads discuss CFM required if that info isn't there. A search brings them up. Acorn was another Fisher copy. The Voyager was the XL copy.
I'm not sure what to think about the two small holes drilled in the left door?? The brass looks strange too, it should be mirror polished but looks like matte finish? The damper control doesn't show in your pics, is there a chain control on the right side or a keyhole shaped hole on the right next to insert? If it is missing damper, a Smoke Shelf Baffle should be installed as pictured below; Dimensions given are full size Insert. Set brick on edge at side to support baffle plate. This is the best improvement you can do very cheaply and was the tested improvement for smoke reduction in later freestanding models. This will work fine with your liner, but was not factory installed since they were designed for use with larger existing chimney flues requiring much more heat. You didn't specify the flue size, so make the smoke space above plate the same square inch opening as inside of flue. In the US you can reduce 1 inch from 8 to 7, but the inside of your outlet is probably 7 1/2, so reducing to 6 works very well. Your denser wood and hotter operating temperatures can make a difference requiring a larger flue. If you have an electric leaf blower or shop vac to connect exhaust to hose you can blow into the side holes to see what a blower will push out the top. Then you will have an idea of it's heating potential.
Holy crap coaly did u draw those pictures out just for the posting? Anyways...I've done a bunch of mods to this insert. I fabbed and welded up a secondary burn system which works fantastic. I do have a heavy duty baffle which sits on top of the secondary burner. I have the damper as well right in the chimney hole on the stove which has a rod that comes out right in the middle but I used the wrong metal so when I went to bend the rod up to match the heat deflector..it broke..I was so mad. I still have to fix that. Flue size is 6". Stove outlet is 7-5/8". The draft is great and it is very efficient. I am about to fab up primary air for it too. As it stands right now I am able tune it so that I'm getting a good 10 hour+ burn loaded up. No smoke out the chimney and got. Here's some more detailed pics for ya...1st pic is the secondary burn control valve with broken damper rod 2nd pic is secondary burner with baffle(hard to see) 3rd is sec burner with intake pipe 4th is I'm guessing the year and model?
