Fire up the "Gibraltar CFS" Pics

SteveZee wrote: Nice deal on the stove Eddie. Where is the Fuller and Warren, Is that running too? Keep us posted on how that "modern' style gibralter performs for you.

Hey Steve,
It's 18*F outside 72*F inside. The Gibraltar held the house temps last night and was only burning @ 400*F. I shook the stove down 26 hours after starting the coal fire. The stove grates are very rugged and almost look like large cam shafts. Anyway, the shake down only needed 5 complete, very slow, full swing rocks shaker stop to shaker stop. To shake this stove down, the ash door has to be open. The slow full swing shaking method works great with this stove and is quiet with vey little dust.
This stove is a good fit for the house this time of year.

The Fuller & Warren #14 Base burner is going to be a long term restoration. The stove needs 2 parts recast and also needs a new stove barrel. My avitar pic is of the firepot in that stove.

Eddie

I think it is a shame those Gibraltar stoves are no longer made...they seem to be built to withstand a stick of dynamite in the coal bed. Yours is a fine looking stove, and an absolute steal for what you paid for it.

Rob R. wrote:I think it is a shame those Gibraltar stoves are no longer made...they seem to be built to withstand a stick of dynamite in the coal bed. Yours is a fine looking stove, and an absolute steal for what you paid for it.

Agreed, that was super buy Eddie! Glad she's working out for you.

Nice stove and for that price, what a deal one of my friends burns a Gibralter and loves it. They are a solid made stove and really can crank out the heat. Good luck with the stove.

PC 12-47E wrote:

SteveZee wrote: Nice deal on the stove Eddie. Where is the Fuller and Warren, Is that running too? Keep us posted on how that "modern' style gibralter performs for you.

Hey Steve,
It's 18*F outside 72*F inside. The Gibraltar held the house temps last night and was only burning @ 400*F. I shook the stove down 26 hours after starting the coal fire. The stove grates are very rugged and almost look like large cam shafts. Anyway, the shake down only needed 5 complete, very slow, full swing rocks shaker stop to shaker stop. To shake this stove down, the ash door has to be open. The slow full swing shaking method works great with this stove and is quiet with vey little dust.
This stove is a good fit for the house this time of year.

The Fuller & Warren #14 Base burner is going to be a long term restoration. The stove needs 2 parts recast and also needs a new stove barrel. My avitar pic is of the firepot in that stove.

Eddie

What is with the extra 90 elbow in the pictures, is there a place on back you can hook up duct work to this stove ? That would be the cats ass. Does this stove use an 8" flue ? Have any pictures of the back and the ash pan area ?

echos67 wrote:
What is with the extra 90 elbow in the pictures, is there a place on back you can hook up duct work to this stove ? That would be the cats ass. Does this stove use an 8" flue ? Have any pictures of the back and the ash pan area ?

The CFS has a 6" flue but it does not have a heat jacket....So the stove is just a radiant heater. I have a block chimney, (fireplace on the other side), in back of the stove with stucco and the stucco does not like the high temp from the coal stoves. So with your sharp eyes you saw my makeshift heat jacket /circulator. I placed a couple of "U" shaped blocks on the tile hearth and added several flue pipes to keep the heat off the block & stucco wall and also to circulate some air behind the stove.

Eddie

Thats doing what you have to do with what you have on hand , looks like it works as intended.

Nice, I love my LCC. Good to see another Gibraltar burning coal .

Dan