Avalon Olympic 1190 cracks in secondary manifold, upper rear of stove questions.

While surfing the Craigslist ads the other day one of my Bucket List stoves showed up with Trade option, after concluding terms with the other gent I was the owner of an Avalon Olympic.

The stove looks good, does not appear to have been abused but, has cracks in the upper rear area of the secondary air manifold. Checking the most popular forums there is some mention of cracks on Travis stoves in this area, not much about repairs. The was a mention of a repair kit available from Travis and I sent them a inquiry but, no answer as of yet.

Maybe this is an early model, it's MFGR tag shows it was made in 2000 and it the cracks are a bug that was worked out later on. I have a good welding shop down the road and am sure they can patch it up but, if there's some repair kit patch already available that's the road I wannna go down.

If anyone's ean into this problem and knows of the fix or of a repair kit from Travis Ind., please let me know.

Here's some pictures of what I see as a problem.

 

Nice looking stove.
No idea on a kit or repair.

 

That secondary manifold is full of other holes. On purpose! I would burn it as is and make sure that jets of flame aren't squirting out. Then, if those cracks are really leaky to the detriment of the air tubes, wire wheel the cracks and lay a bead of weld over them with a wire feed welder. It's just to seal the crack so low penetration is okay.

 

I was able to get in touch with a gentleman at Travis Industries today and they do not have any repair kits for the cracks. Now to get this beefy stove over to the welding shop. I have moved many stoves in recent couple years but, this is the heaviest feeling so far.

Thanks for the wire feed tip Highbeam. If the weather breaks I may put a coat of some custom color StoveBrite on this Olympic, then it will really look good Papadave.

 

I just don't want you to bust out a tombstone stick welder and blow a hole through that thin steel. Just seal the crack, birdpoop weld is fine.

 

Ahh yes, the baffle cracks on Travis stoves. My recommendation is the same as above; a competent welder can fix those up. On my Liberty, I took the extra step and smeared stove cement over the welds and in other "hotspots."

Some of the cement bubbled and didnt take, but most added another layer of protection.

Great stove...3.1cu ft, right? The Avalon version of a Liberty?

 

I think I'd just run it.