The Acme Stove Co. of Portland or.

I just purchased a home with this stove in it.







There is no hopper that I can tell, there is no shaker grate. This had a universal wood grate in it. I can not find ANY information on this stove.

Before I go and buy a new coal stove, or venture to make one myself. I figured I would ask those that are in the know, what they know...

Thank you for any and all information you are able to supply, I look forward to being a viable participant of this forum.

I have a stable supply of bit coal at 65/ton. Way cheaper then nat. gas, and Way less work then wood.

A picture of that grate would help...
The back plate does say wood or coal...
But to use a grate or elevate the coal...
If it was made out west one could assume it was a Bit coal burner...
The grate may be the ticket...

The only grate I have, looks like I was bought at home depot. Its a standard wood fireplace square bar grate. If I could figure out how to get the ash out, I could build a coal grate, with a shaker. Would just have to open the door and reach in with a tool to shake it I guess. Heck, I would be willing to use the plasma torch to cut a hole in the side. And weld in a race, and install a handle. Wood is to much work for this old man.

There are several pages of grates at the following link. They are expensive though.
http://www.northlineexpress.com/category/fireplac ... grates.asp
You might want to keep an eye on craigslist/local ads for a stove with built in grates, ash pit, etc. specifically designed to burn coal.
I do know of some people who burn lump coal in plain ole box-woodstoves including my brother inlaw who burns lump coal and wood at the same time to extend burn times but a stove designed for coal would be best.

Would prefer an actual coal stove. Just need to save up the 2k

being back and forth from the
Alaskan kodiak, swatara I think by reading and the larger of the hitzel stove. Or the Vermont vigilant2

I have a 2200sq foot split level. With two wood stoves. Was thinking about a larger unit down stairs, as the heat will carry up. Then a smaller unit upstairs for when it's really cold out.

I looked at the swatara before buying the Harman tlc-2000. What I liked about both stoves was the large ash pan. The swatara was about 4to 5 hundred bucks more. What a great looking stove though.They both set well up off the floor too. I don't know what percentage of ash you get with sub-bit, but with either of these stoves you don't have to empty the pan every single time you shake and poke. I also got an extra pan for $39.00. I just swap them out and let the full one cool well before disposing of it. I like burning coal, but you have to make a few more considerations because of the amount of ash compared to wood burning.
40°s here this morning.
Charlie

this looks dang near like the one in the stove.
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I picked up a few bags of coal today, came home and put about 5lbs of coal on a decent wood fire. the wood fire has the stack at 200* within 15minutes, the coal had picked up and raised the stack temp to 500*

I choked her down and now she is humming along at 250*. At 250* this keeps the house plenty warm about 74*. at 300 it gets the house to 80 no prob. Will be looking forward to my continuing experiment.

love that old acme ,I know all about it , had one like , too heavy to ship to Alaska had to sell in 1981 the damper should have a cap nut then inside is allen screw so when house is warm you can set damper to close, mine was auto damper once stove is warm you can keep house warm for 4 to 6 hours with two 2 by 4s the damper in front so working on room tempature not the tempature between the stove and the wall, I only used wood so I don't know about using coal, when first bought I was told that the co. that made it used to make earth stoves but quit making the earth stoves because of secondary combustion claims that earth stove made so the co. started making their own as acme stoves ,wish I had mine back ,the most reliable stove I ever had