The pics earlier in the thread look like soapstone side and rear walls of the firebox? Or is it firebrick? Do other models of soapstone stoves use...
Always did wonder how wasp eggs in the hanging nests survive such cold. Are they still good to hatch after freezing and then thawing? Apparently...
Is it runny enough to wipe a drip off the pipe with a q-tip? Smell the q-tip, creosote has a unique smell. Does the pipe junction have the male...
Forecast here says -10 f. with wind chill of maybe -37 f. The Encore is loaded with fat splits of black locust and mulberry. The propane furnace...
I'm finding that black locust sits in the coal state a really long time. Note to self: only do the dinnertime load with ash and maple so I can...
I don't know if the furnace kicked on overnight because I slept through it. Better living through chemistry.
Wake up little Suzie, wakeup! .....,.............. and we're in trouble deep.
This is a wild guess way out there, but if the cat honeycomb is only missing alittle area (wild guess again) maybe 5% or less, and you can't find...
Proper decorum. :popcorn: :popcorn:
What. .. nobody has replied to this yet? Geeze....
Hey good to see ya, oldspark.
It is a proposal to make wood stoves burn cleaner. From 4.5 grams per hour to 1.3 grams per hour in 5 years. I will have to stop burning tires and...
Very neat. Thanks again! I sorta inferred from the diagram how the cat sled worked, but a video is worth a thousand pictures. My wife's criteria...
Thank you Flamestead, the rough diagram is perfect. It's very interesting that the bimetallic cat air control adjusts the balance of secondary air...
Thanks and especially for this detailed report (good job Brian). Here we see the cat showing with stove top open- [ATTACH] Do you suppose the...
For a tube stove like this, does the usable firebox calculation have to exclude about 2 inches from the ceiling sec. baffles because the flames...
Umm .. shouldn't those come in a kit of two? One for normal and the other for reverse-threaded applications? What were they thinking?
I heard somewhere that of you have to cut dirty wood, try to position the log so that the dirt is pointing toward you and the saw. IOW the dirt is...
Thank you Machria. So, with the damper closed, everything will go through the cat - even super heated already-cleaned-up (secondary tube reburned)...
Back to the thread original subject, does the Ideal Steel hybrid stove have a damper to close when you want to run in cat mode? Does it operate in...
