Fabricating a Stove

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Post by franco b » Wed. Feb. 16, 2011 4:44 pm

The video shows how a Lopi wood stove is fabricated. Not a coal stove but should be similar.

http://vimeo.com/8016166

 
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Post by I'm On Fire » Wed. Feb. 16, 2011 5:30 pm

Man, and here I thought you were taking on the endeavor of building your own stove.

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Just finished watching the video. To me, their stoves are nice but impersonal. In that their stoves are part of an assembly line, like a car. It seems like you'd be unable to call them up and request a modification. It'd probably screw up their line.

 
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Post by grizzly2 » Sat. Feb. 19, 2011 9:05 am

That was a very interesting video. I thought stove manufacturers were probably much smaller operations than that. I suppose we like to think that our stoves are each hand made by individual craftsmen. It they were, we would probably have to mortgage our homes to buy one. At least the Lopi is made in the good old USA :up:


 
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Post by rockwood » Sat. Feb. 19, 2011 1:53 pm

Lots of high dollar equipment in that plant. 8-)
My sister has a Lopi woodstove and the pellet stove I had 20 years ago was a Lopi.
They are good stoves....maybe someone can talk 'em into making coalstoves :idea:

 
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Post by samhill » Sat. Feb. 19, 2011 4:13 pm

Reminds me of my working days, after seeing something like that someone would always say, anybody could make that stove with all that equipment but it takes a real craftsman to make one with the crap we have to work with. Our old ironworker & rolls we had in the boilershop in Duquesne Works still ran on DC.

 
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Post by Dann757 » Sat. Feb. 19, 2011 5:04 pm

Cool video. Reminded me of a lot of jobs I've held. I was a production welder for Clay Equipment near Binghamton; I "burned out" after 6 weeks. I love to weld, but 8hrs a day was too much. I was a grinder in a foundry, that was another 6 week desperation job :cry:
That bending machine had a lot of paint scraped away from all that production. Where the piece just touches the machine with the 90* bends. Nice sandblasting setup, I had a homemade booth once I made out of window sash and hollow core doors :lol: I have a wet sandblasting attachment for my power washer too; it leaves wet sand all over the place.

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