Optional Ways to Vent a Coal Stove

 
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Post by brckwlt » Sat. Mar. 21, 2009 2:34 pm

Ill see what I can gather up and send everyone who has given me advise or commented on something ive posted a nice care package ...


 
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Post by CapeCoaler » Sat. Mar. 21, 2009 4:06 pm

No Asbestos, Please!

 
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Post by ashburnham55 » Sat. Mar. 21, 2009 4:07 pm

wow .. those stoves are incredible. I would love to have some of those stoves !!

 
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Post by BigBarney » Tue. Mar. 24, 2009 11:52 am

You have to look back to early times when log cabins used a wooden chimney to

vent the gases of combustion out of the living space.These early chimneys were

logs stacked and had a clay mud on the inside to keep the gases in control,but

the effectiveness was minimal and many burned down,that's reason we don't see

many surviving structures.Very little metal was available for Chimneys.

The same fate came to most all of the river boats on the Mississippi and other

rivers.They were all wood with a small amount of metal for the boiler and little

else.The fuel was stored in the wood hull and a fire was usually the result and the

destruction of the boat.

Care must be used in dealing with flue gases and proper flue are the way to achieve

this for the safety of the residents.

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Post by brckwlt » Tue. Mar. 24, 2009 4:00 pm

Fire and wood don't seem to mix very well.

 
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Post by Jeddbird » Tue. Mar. 24, 2009 6:29 pm

I wouldn't dare vent a hand fired stove except into a regular chimney....Preferably masonry.

 
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Post by brckwlt » Tue. Mar. 24, 2009 9:20 pm

Jeddbird wrote:I wouldn't dare vent a hand fired stove except into a regular chimney....Preferably masonry.
how else would you?


 
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Post by CapeCoaler » Tue. Mar. 24, 2009 9:51 pm

Out a window!

 
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Post by brckwlt » Tue. Mar. 24, 2009 9:59 pm

CapeCoaler wrote:Out a window!
if it was legal I would do it!

 
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Post by the snowman » Wed. Mar. 25, 2009 7:09 pm

The venting out a window thing I have seen. It was not pretty or safe. When I was looking for a coal stove I looked at a stoker and the guy had it vented out a window in the kitchen. He had cut a round hole in the glass window the size of the pipe and had installed the pipe through this hole. The pipe stuck outside the window about three inches and that was it. He said he had run the stove this way for two years with no problems. He also had a piece of wood wedged up under the pipe inside the house to keep the pipe connection from coming apart. He was inventive for he also used duct tape around the pipe and the piece of wood to help stabalize it as he put it. When I asked why he didn't screw the pipe together with sheet metal screws, he looked at me and said,"You can do that!" It was at this point I just turned around and left without saying another word. The stove would have needed a ton of work and I wasn't interested in purchasing a stove I had to dump several hundred dollars into before I used it. At the time I needed a stove I could hook up and use right away. I often wonder if his house has burned down yet.

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Post by brckwlt » Wed. Mar. 25, 2009 9:04 pm

That is a funny story ...

aren't there codes against venting a stove out the window?

 
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Post by Poconoeagle » Wed. Mar. 25, 2009 10:32 pm

brckwlt wrote:That is a funny story ...

aren't there codes against venting a stove out the window?
yes enigma code, same one for venting stove out of a submarine!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

 
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Post by samhill » Thu. Mar. 26, 2009 11:09 am

Poconoeagle, that all depends on how long the vent is & how deep the water.

 
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Post by Poconoeagle » Thu. Mar. 26, 2009 11:10 am

samhill wrote:Poconoeagle, that all depends on how long the vent is & how deep the water.
usually the water is deep.......and cold too!! :P

 
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Post by samhill » Thu. Mar. 26, 2009 11:22 am

Just for the heck of it I found a English sub built in 1880 by a Rev. Garrett was powered by a coal fired steam engine with a retractable stack that went to a 50 ft depth.


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