No time for details since the twins are both sick (been sitting here online waaaay to much this weekend) but thought I'd share that I fiiiiiiinaly finished it. Big thanks to Defiant for advice. Hey Reckless here you go, you beat me to the first fire with yours. For those not in the know: New cat New refractory New combustion hood All new gaskets Repaired seams Rebuilt bypass Rebuilt doors and regasketed glass Blasted, clean and reinstalled all interior castings All new bolts and hardware installed with copper a/s Removed redundant pipe damper Full repaint Polished griddle Lubed all moving parts with graphite Check and adjust both primary and secondary thermostats
Secondarys? Man its a cat stove he he. Oh I forgot the warming shelf. The entire 2 month adventure is documented over 'there' Not sure if I'm allowed to link it? Now back to the Pat's game.......
Nice work Jeremy! Hope it gives you many more years of reliable use. I'll be watching to see it fired up.
ive sold at least a hundred of those encores back when I was the outside salesman for a firplace store. that was about 20 yrs ago. they are a great stove. I used a consolidated dutchwest xtra lg for many yrs in my home.
Documented here now: http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/index.php?threads/encore-2550-rebuild-thread.172/
