Glenwood #30 Ready for Install

I spent a few hrs. each morning this week bringing the nickle plate back to a respectable shine and juts finished going over the whole stove with stove polish and reassembled, she is ready for install!
I have the stove pipe here and have made my measurements twice, after a nap I will install the stove saturday and make a few small wood fires to season the stove and drive any moisture out of the refractory lining in the fire pot and then I WILL LIGHT HER FOR THE SEASON.
The little Atlanta Cannon stove the Glenwood is replacing sure looks pretty small compared to its BIG BROTHER!....LOL
Tim

She looks brand new, nice job. That aughta keep you warm.

Well I was headed for a nap after the last post ....an just couldnt do it !...I figure hell I can sleep when I AM DEAD...I was bought to walk outta the shop and the Glenwwod called to me ...WHAT YA LEAVIN NOW WE ARE SO CLOSE!?...SO I jumped in head first ...had the sawzall out out in a flash and pipe cutting started ...an hr. later WHALLA~!...hooked up stove and fire in it ...opened the big door on the shop 6" and had a good breeze ...opened the man door near the Glenwood and had a good flow ...to suck out the blue smoke from paint & polish ...have a nice Oak fire in her at the moment tamped way back since the smoke has stopped, I put her in back tube burn by closing the damper in the top of teh tube and MAN CAN YOU CONTROL THIS FIRE!..for now I will just let her go ...till she burns up the fuel and let it cool down.
Found 1 leak near the exhaust that will need attention ...so after she cools a little dab of stove cement on that area ...and I will be ready to light her and put the Anthracite to her for the season!

For William,
Will , YOU WERE NOT EMBELISHING THE FACTS AT ALL IN YOUR VIDEO'S OF HOW TIGHT THESE STOVES REALLY ARE!
Right now I am burning some Oak scraps I get from work ...and I have em tamped down to a nice HOT but SLOW fire ..and the scraps are 6% and under in Moisture content ...I could probabaly shut the fire off if I wanted to ...there are NO LEAKS IN THE LOADING OR ASH GRATE DOORS!..letting in unwanted air....This Glenwwod is the S%$T!
I think I have found my coal stove for the rest of my days, funny it only took 110+yrs of Engineering to get back to a stove like this!...an like you said I will prob. keep my eye out for one for the house. ..Thanks for ALL YOUR TIPS AN TRICKS!
Tim

she is a beaut . why don't you have that one in your house ? you got a steal .

Good Job. The stove looks great!! I can't wait for you to find out how it works when you put some coal in it. It will take you some time to learn all the nuances of operating the stove. These stoves have a lot of versatility and a wide range of capability.
Thanks a lot for the acknowledgment that I was not exaggerating about the superior design of these stoves. I know a lot of people have read or watched what I have said about them and not really have taken me seriously. But that is their loss if that is the case. You need to thank yourself for being smart by buying a Glenwood.
The wood fire you put in it just has given you a little hint of what that stove can do. I know you will take care of it and respect it for the treasure that it is.
Of course we all want pictures and details of everything as you progress along.

now i'm getting jealous . I havn't had any takers yet . I might hook up my stove tomorrow . william do you know what the exhaust path is with these stoves in base heater mode . they are different then yours . they don't have area under ash pit for smoke to travel does it go bettween firepot and cylinder then threw ash pit then out stack . how do you switch from direct to base . do you close damper at top of stove then open slide damper on bottom ?

Tim wrote:For William,
Will , YOU WERE NOT EMBELISHING THE FACTS AT ALL IN YOUR VIDEO'S OF HOW TIGHT THESE STOVES REALLY ARE!
Right now I am burning some Oak scraps I get from work ...and I have em tamped down to a nice HOT but SLOW fire ..and the scraps are 6% and under in Moisture content ...I could probabaly shut the fire off if I wanted to ...there are NO LEAKS IN THE LOADING OR ASH GRATE DOORS!..letting in unwanted air....This Glenwwod is the S%$T!
I think I have found my coal stove for the rest of my days, funny it only took 110+yrs of Engineering to get back to a stove like this!...an like you said I will prob. keep my eye out for one for the house. ..Thanks for ALL YOUR TIPS AN TRICKS!
Tim

Tim, You think you can control that stove burning wood, just wait till you fire her up with coal... These stoves are amazing... I understand the concept of "my coal stove for the rest of my days".... I've owned my Glenwood since I was a kid... I got it as payment for cleaning out a hay barn when I was somewhere between 12 and 14 years old... You do have to learn the settings for coal. I don't know if you model has the air fed ring at the top of the firebox or not. I also can't really tell if yours has a damper in the door, sort of looks like you do. If so, you'll want to use it more than you might think...

dj

mason coal burner wrote:now i'm getting jealous . I havn't had any takers yet . I might hook up my stove tomorrow . william do you know what the exhaust path is with these stoves in base heater mode . they are different then yours . they don't have area under ash pit for smoke to travel does it go bettween firepot and cylinder then threw ash pit then out stack . how do you switch from direct to base . do you close damper at top of stove then open slide damper on bottom ?

I think the smoke goes up and down inside the barrel of the stove, then goes around the base and goes up the back pipe last. Different models are a little different. Do me a favor and describe what the area under the firepot looks like or put up some pictures. I think once you get the fire going, you take it out of direct draft at the top and pull that damper lever down at the bottom to start the base burning circulation pattern by opening up the path to the back pipe at the bottom. It could be a little different than that but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

Here is my first coal fire after 12+ hrs, I loaded it 3/4 way with Nut and topped off with Pea.
The stove is cruising at 340 right now with a stack temp of 93.5, I have the primaries all but closed and the load door damper at 1/4"
I have a tote full of Pea to use up so I will just use it on top of a fresh load of Nut till it is gone.
I talked with my COAL GUY today and he does not offer Stove size as he gets no one asking for it so Nut is the biggest I can get locally, gonna pick up a truck load next saturday.
Tim

It's looking good. You will have no trouble keeping the shop warm. Even at low cruising temperatures, the Glenwood has so much radiating surface that you are still getting loads of heat out of it while burning much less fuel.
I'm really happy that you are pleased with your new Glenwood!!

By the way, how is the pipe damper set? You can probably nearly close it all the way shut. Running the way you have it set, it should run at least 18-20 hours like this.

Well first shake down WENT GREAT~!
I opened the primaries full open and put the stove on direct draft for bought 10 minutes and had a HOT fire,I then closed the primaries and opened the flip door and placed the shaker handle on Noting the position of the handle I followed Williams TIP on shaking the grates till I felt resistance from the coal bed on the grate handle...YUP JUST ENOUGH the fire dropped to just a little under 1/2 a fire pot and there are a few red coals in the ash pan, I rotated the Prismatic grates 1/3 turn to exspose a fresh "FLAT"to the fire bed and loaded her almost full of Nut and put a layer of Pea on top of that, reset my primaries to almost closed waited 5 minutes and put her back on the indirect back tube setting and closed the manual draft to almost closed....SHE IS HAPPY!!!..
I will take Larry Trainers advise on letting the ashes in the box till next shake down so they can COOL DOWN..dont want fly ash all over my Motorcycles ...and all over my renters bikes that store here all winter ...the renters bikes are covered ..but still don't want dust all over there bike covers.
Tim

Just noticed something ....Do any of you other Glenwood owners notice that the stove leans back a bit ???..mine is setting on concrete that is damn near level, but she cants to the back a little I even checked to be sure that she was setting in the base correctly.
I did notice that when I swing the load door shut she will close on her own, wonder if that is onna them things "THEY THOUGHT OF BACK THEN" ..."SELF CLOSING DOORS"..or "GRAVITY ASSIST CLOSURE"..lol
Makes one think ?...they thought of everything else...
Tim

Tim,

You need to get some sleep.

tsb wrote:Tim,

You need to get some sleep.

TSB,

With a signature that says "Coal - It's not a hobby, It's an addiction" you should understand how Tim is not going to be getting sleep for awhile.... LOL

dj