Well, it does look a little like a cheese grater.
Dave, do you need the 24 hour burns? Would it be easier to go with a 12 hour schedule burning a little hotter with less wood and more ash in the box?
I've read that's its OK to reload midstream and as long as the cat is still active there's no need to keep the stove in bypass mode, you can...
Does your bottling bucket have a spigot? I find it easier than a bottling wand. Also wrapping a sanitized paint strainer bag around your racking...
I'll throw out my .02 on your temps. First off I think you have one of the older Condar cat probes and with all my experience changing out...
Have you tried cracking a window before loading to see if it helps with the 30 smoke out the door problem? Could be some negative pressure in that...
I've wondered this as well, looking at Keystone cats from other sources are almost twice as much as Woodstock. Maybe WS just sells them at cost to...
It was a Auber 10" thermocouple probe that was inserted into the cat probe hole in the back of the stove. When I fired up the stove the first...
Not yet, my cat probe only lasted one year so I'm a little Leary of buying another.
After all this talk on cat life I started to get paranoid that my ceramic was degrading, it is over 12000 hours old, but this afternoon she took...
No t-stat in the IS so I doubt it can have as even a burn at that low of an output for as long as a BK, but I have heard of people getting 24...
Seems logical that the cat in a hybrid stove should last a bit longer. I also think the cat life in a regular cat stove depends on how you run it....
Something else I just remembered people talking about last year was a 50/50 vinegar/distilled water bath or spray to help clean up the cat. Might...
Here's some good info on cats.
I wouldn't be able to rotate mine since its incased in an iron frame. I'd have to carefully take it apart, flip it around, regasket and place it...
4 degrees this morning, lots of local lakes freezing over, may be ice fishing before Thanksgiving!
Yes, good post. I think judgment is still out on the steel cats. I know my experience wasn't that good a few years back but they improved the...
OK, according to Applied Ceramics they consider 6 years to be 10,000-12,000 hours. Seems like those hours wouldn't last me 6 years if I burn 24/7...
I went back and forth testing them and found the screen did keep the cat cleaner.
