A different Vigilant II coal stove

Hello VigII Burners.

If you can, please place a lit match, etc. and walk the flame over the bottom window slit from left to right, on both doors please.
I am curious to find out if you folks have any air (less or more) being drawn into the fire box. It would seem logical that some amount of air should enter
through the slit. Otherwise, that slit would have been sealed off with gasket. I am sure as VigIIPB said, it should not suck in an abundance of oxygen, right.

My VigII is back to it's near original state. Wadhams casted angle fire brick for me. The angle brick is 2" higher than the factory and then there is the steeper angle. He thinks this will help remove ash on the sides easier, due to the added height.

Thanks,

Matt

vmi1983 wrote:Hello VigII Burners.

If you can, please place a lit match, etc. and walk the flame over the bottom window slit from left to right, on both doors please.
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Answered here:

Re: Anyone burn a Vermont castings Vigilant II?

Glasses after 4 monts burning and without any cleaning, the original ones.
Wish the Golden Bride ones' could stay as clean as those on the Vigll. An other project?

nortcan wrote:Glasses after 4 monts burning and without any cleaning, the original ones.
Wish the Golden Bride ones' could stay as clean as those on the Vigll. An other project?

Hi Pierre... very nice.... I see gaskets on the lower window .... what purpose does that serve?

Matt

vmi1983....... nortcan loves his stove gasket. When we are out of rope gasket or flat gasket down here we know that we can count on nortcan up there having it.

buck24 wrote:vmi1983....... nortcan loves his stove gasket. When we are out of rope gasket or flat gasket down here we know that we can count on nortcan up there having it.

That is very funny.

buck24 wrote:vmi1983....... nortcan loves his stove gasket. When we are out of rope gasket or flat gasket down here we know that we can count on nortcan up there having it.

buck,I just hope that USA will continue to have tons of them, I absolutly don't want to get them from Chiiiiiiiiina

vmi1983 wrote:

nortcan wrote:Glasses after 4 monts burning and without any cleaning, the original ones.
Wish the Golden Bride ones' could stay as clean as those on the Vigll. An other project?

Hi Pierre... very nice.... I see gaskets on the lower window .... what purpose does that serve?

Matt

Matt, after making all the possible testings with or without the lower rope gaskets, I finally decided to go farther and make some "piercing" in the front doors to have adjustable over the fire air ports. But that air makes a sort of glasses air wash and also preserve the glasses from etching at the same time. So no more air from the lower part of the glasses. Some times for some reasons, one side burns more than the other so I can manage it by opening or closing one hole flapper as needed. Because fresh air is feeded from the far left side of the stove it could be one of the reasons for the one side burning more than the other, we can see it from the qte of ash from one side compare to the other side. But the sides question is not always happening, just wanted to mention it.
And yes I love rope gaskets

nortcan wrote:

vmi1983 wrote:

nortcan wrote:Glasses after 4 monts burning and without any cleaning, the original ones.
Wish the Golden Bride ones' could stay as clean as those on the Vigll. An other project?

Hi Pierre... very nice .... I see gaskets on the lower window .... what purpose does that serve?

Matt

Matt, after making all the possible testings with or without the lower rope gaskets, I finally decided to go farther and make some "piercing" in the front doors to have adjustable over the fire air ports. But that air makes a sort of glasses air wash and also preserve the glasses from etching at the same time. So no more air from the lower part of the glasses. Some times for some reasons, one side burns more than the other so I can manage it by opening or closing one hole flapper as needed. Because fresh air is feeded from the far left side of the stove it could be one of the reasons for the one side burning more than the other, we can see it from the qte of ash from one side compare to the other side. But the sides question is not always happening, just wanted to mention it.
And yes I love rope gaskets

Pierre,

I see..... the idea is to keep the glass clean .... I do get fine ash washed up on the lower glass, but I use the ash vac to remove build up on lower door under the glass,
and gently wipe the ash off the inner window... not perfect but makes it easy to see the fire.

Thanks,

Matt

Matt, one other thing I didn't like was when opening the front doors and having ash, pieces of coal...falling on the floor so again I went a little farther and made this:

hey Norcan, I'm impressed with the improvements you've made on your V II. If I ever get one to replace my old V I, I'll do some mods to it along the line of your work shown here.

rewinder wrote:hey Norcan, I'm impressed with the improvements you've made on your V II. If I ever get one to replace my old V I, I'll do some mods to it along the line of your work shown here.

rewinder,
All I can tell you is that the stove is acompletly a different stove, The way it's now is for my personnal heat demand but the same patern can allow for a higher heat output need in just a few minutes. The fire viewing is a little smaller but at least it stays clear and also the floor stay clean

Nice fire view from the top. Maybe the Vigll begins to feel his last season in the faux-fireplace? Nobody knows

Hum, the V2 is back ( almost )to day one of it's life. Almost ready to go. Was a very good stove when to day 2 of it's life. Probably one of the best new stoves.

Looks beautiful. It will be a good stove for someone as it never ran hard with the smaller firebox installed. Probably no harder than a Resolute would have run at designed max. Just guessing but I don't think I'm too far off. What do you think?