Had been looking for a Stratford SC75 and SC100 and found and purchased them yesterday. I like the looks of the stoves and they seem to be built well however I have a question about the gasket around the loading door window. Would these stoves originally have used paper gasket like the older Francobelge stoves or would they have always used the fiberglass tape gasket? I ask because of course all I can find today is the tape gasket and it ... well just looks like crap. I could see where paper gasket would have looked and worked much better.
Thanks,
Glenn
Tape Gasket Vs. Paper Gasket
- grobinson2
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Tape gasket is OEM type used. It always droops a bit after some use, but that's how they all are.