None available from Englander, but the one on my bk kicks butt so I made one. What do you think? Big difference in blasting heat into your face when sitting in front of the stove. So now I wonder about upgrading the silly ac16 blower to something else.
Always put my keys there. They can get warm which is a little unpleasant in your hand but can get real exciting when I drop them in my pocket. This is the shop stove, a permitted install in my pole barn. When I run the stove out there it is for max heat for a short time doing whatever I can to safely produce max heat. No cruise or long burn times.
Is that angle iron underneath? I keep thinking of doing that. The other blower does a great job, but when I kick it up to more than about 25% above the lowest setting, it starts getting a bit noisy. I've never had it much above that point.....don't need it. Does a real good job moving the air.
Made a convection deck for the BKK a while ago, made a difference. I'm a fan of directed heat, good job. HB, nice install, very clean appearance.
The sides are 15.25" long, .125" wall, square tube. I chopped it with a chopsaw and then custom fit the back around the heat shield with an angle grinder. The top sheet is 18"x24" sheet aluminum sign material cut with a jigsaw and corners rounded with the angle grinder. Pop rivets and self tappers. I thought about just folding the edges of the top sheet but didn't think I could do it with precision.
Looks great, You did a clean looking job. Can you tell a good difference with it heating up the shop from a cold start ?
Just made it today and cured the paint. Big football game tomorrow. Hope to burn it hard on Monday to see how she does. The blast of air coming forward is significant now where I couldn't feel it at all before. If need be I could slide additional tubes under the deck sort of like a pellet stove heat exchanger. The ac30 blower is 165$ or I could use a 4x10" duct boot and a 6" inline duct booster fan for 160 cfm under 50$. Might be my next shop project.
Don't think any additional "tubing" would help much, if inserted between the stove and new deck. Might help with channeling the air flow, but not with heat retention.
It'd be worth a try, just don't see it being noticeable. Steel just doesn't retain heat much, with a constant airflow flowing over it. Not a bad thing. The small area you'd have heated with a series of tubing might give you a bit more heating, but better would be to have those tubes splayed out in a 70-90'degree pattern. That would be a nice heat dispersion pattern.
That looks excellent HB! Paint those screws with the same black paint and you'd never know that was an add-on!
There are a bunch of after market blowers that can probably be made to work... http://www.amazon.com/Fasco-Profile-Blower-Volt-GFK-160A/dp/B005YNC06K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421599608&sr=8-1&keywords=Fasco b160 blower http://www.amazon.com/GFK-160-Fireplace-Blower-Quadra-Fire-R7-RB168B/dp/B00HJ82RVG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1421599608&sr=8-2&keywords=Fasco b160 blower They start at about $60 on amazon... KaptJaq
