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Old Blaze King Stove - Add Baffle?

Discussion in 'Non-EPA Woodstoves and Fireplaces' started by lukem, Oct 28, 2013.

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  1. wildwest

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    Walking across a freezing cold floor in your jammies to stoke the fire at 2 am is no fun. Hope it works well for you.
     
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    Pretty full load last night. No fans. Loaded at 5 PM yesterday. Still 1/3 of a load in there cooking. This is unbelievable.
     
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    Lukem, You now can take smoke monster off your signiture, you're now burning much more effiently. :cool: I'll bet your smoke discharge is "way" down from the way it was.
     
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    No problem Dave like I said before to much time daydreaming at work mostly.
     
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    Very cool Lukem.
    Keep us posted as temps change. VERY interested in how this pans out.
     
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    Basicly Jetjr, "and I didn't mean to be brushing the subject off", In my opinion, it creates more disturbance in the fire box and makes more flow disruption. It has a double edge blade if you will, It can help with the heating but if not designed right can "really" screw up your draft flow so you will be getting a house full of smoke every time you open your doors. :eek: What you want is a smoooooooth flow and long travel with very little obstacles:cool:.
     
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    Did not think you blew it off man. No worries. Figured you were the best person to ask though. I respect all the advice you have given.
     
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    Thanks much…. on that, Sometimes I get long winded trying to explain something, "and thats my fault" I'm better at drawing something out then explaining.:)
     
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    It still smokes like a coal locomotive at startup...but quite a bit less after that.
     
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    Sure, as does mine…. and most will regardless of EPA standard. But I'm sure it's much better :)
     
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    I reloaded about 45 minutes ago and there is almost 0 smoke visible.
     
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    Understand completely I don't do good explaining all the time either.
     
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    This is what I found when I opened the stove this AM after 13 hours. It wasn't a full load either. Stove top at 550 for the duration.

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    The picture doesn't do it justice...the pieces on the side havent really burned yet.
     
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    Yup! it's working well! :cool: Simple works!
     
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    I'll follow up in Dec when I run it hard. ...fans on high. Then we'll know what's what.
     
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    Got about 10 loads with the baffle now. Gonna take a peek down the flue tonight...just to be sure nothing is out of the ordinary.
     
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    It'll be fine I'm sure!:cool:
     
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    A little dirty. ..need to keep an eye on it.
     
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    Could just be the warmer temps outside but also could be that the baffle is slowing just a little too much heat up the chimney. You might need to experiment with a little more air, don't want to lose all the gains but maybe just a little balancing act if you know what I mean. Any time you do a mod like that it'll take a little while to get it dialed in just right. I played with the baffle in my old one a few times, it always had a baffle but I made it a little bigger and angled the flow a little. My real big change to get used too was when I hooked it to a liner instead of a slammer, wow, different stove.
     
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    I have no air adjustment though...it is all thermostat controlled. Probably just a lot of cold starts.
     
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