Found out my wood stove is really coal

What else should I keep in mind? I am replacing the stack due to age/rust. I read a bit on coal stoves and seem they have some type of fans?

Any advice if I'm burning wood?


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Get your shaker grate fixed , replace door gaskets and burn some coal.

 

Gibraltor stove maybe. Looks like Gibraltor grates to me, but I can't be certain.

 

I've burned wood in a coal stove and burned wood in a combo wood/coal stove and they both had ravenous appetites when feeding wood.
I still have the combo stove tucked into the corner of the garage somewhere.
I'd have a mountain of wood to feed it or get a wood stove.

 

It is a coal stove. Burn chestnut size Anthracite coal. Why would you want to make it inefficient burning wood?

It has Gibraltar grates which are the heaviest in the industry. Gibraltar has become Glacier Bay. Most of their stoves have an outer cover with air circulation around the firebox. This uses convection heat as well as radiation. Yours is radiant only.

It requires a barometric damper for coal burning to control the draft.

It looks too close for a corner installation. If the brick has no 1 inch minimum airspace it is not an approved clearance reducing shield. Solid brick in contact with combustible material gives 33% reduction from 36 inches to all combustibles. IF yours is a CFS model, it requires 27 inches to corners in a corner installation. MCC and SCC models are 18" in corner install. The model number makes a difference. The reduced clearance models have blower and are double wall stoves. (below is the MCC)

They usually have a sold brass door, does a magnet stick to it? Here is what they look like polished.
Here's mine;

 

Mine also has the original "Grain of Wheat" etched glass;