By: stoker-man On: Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:54 am
Wouldn't the best place for the MPD be at the flue outlet of the stove? Otherwise the relatively thin flue pipe would be subject to the hot gas that you are trying to restrain.
I started out with a Franklin stove in 1977 and it had the MPD. It was the first winter and the house wasn't insulated or drywalled yet. At the same time, the "air tight" stoves were on the market. I had never burned wood before, so I figured that I could load up the Franklin and completely shut the damper and make it work like the modern "air tight".
We went to bed upstairs and I don't know why, but I turned on the light beside the bed and smoke was coming in the doorway. I ran down the steps and saw a completely glowing orange stove and fluepipe through the wall. I called down my wife and we threw buckets of water on the stove until we could open the door and throw water inside to outen the fire. The cast iron was cracked all over the place. Not wanting to waste money, we continued to use that stove for another 5 years until it was completely used up.
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