Welcome Crane Stoves

Doug has been around a while and has agreed to moderate the forum here for Crane Stoves. Welcome Aboard Doug.

Welcome Doug.

Glad to see your own forum.




Rick

congrats Doug! Good to see you helping with your wealth of knowledge of your namesakes product!

Congrats Doug, welcome addition to the forum!

Rich

Thanks guys, Its nice to help others and meet some new friends.

@ coalvet, that 404 with the cast iron decorative panels i call dibs on if you ever sell it! LOL (curious, did you ever get the trivet top for it too ?)

Congrats Doug! Feel like I already know you (through our pm's), I can see that you can offer some great advice to all of us novices!

Welcome and congrats. Now you can share in the misery of having a forum here. I mean pleasure of having a forum here. Yea that's what I meant. Well any way happy New Year as well. Dave

Wecome Doug.
I also like the look of coalvet's stove, 404 or 44?

nortcan wrote:Wecome Doug.
I also like the look of coalvet's stove, 404 or 44?

he has the 404 pictured on his profile (the thing that makes his rare is that he also has the decorative cast iron trim kit on it), we sold about 30,000 of these units (but only about 1000 trim kits like this) so that gives you some indication of how rare it is. It makes his stove have the best of two worlds (The stregth, safety, airtightness of a solid welded steel stove along with the pretty sexiness of a cast iron stove). This particular trim kit happens to be my favorite because its not enamaled...if he has the trivet top for this unit im going to scream LOL ... god my regrets of being a teenager cannot be overstated, My dad did things i can even fathom and I should have been more aware and more muture

Welcome!!!

Doug, no trivet kit but I wonder if you have a mini fire pot insert that was an option for this stove.

Rich

coalvet wrote:Doug, no trivet kit but I wonder if you have a mini fire pot insert that was an option for this stove.

Rich

those were even more rare then your cast iron trim kit! the mini pot would be useless to you anyways... simply grab a model 44 (plenty of those out their for great value!). The model 44 Crane and the Chappee can be toned down further then any other coal stove ive tested. Lifting those cast iron pots were such a knuckle buster putting in and pulling out that i would not suggest it makes sense to do at this point (I wouldn't even risk trying it if you had one). If the pot warps or something changes slightly and then your left not being able to get your main pot back in it would be awful, or worst... if you put the mini pot ontop of the main and something warped it would catastrophic (chances are you would be hard pressed to get your pot completely out anyways), just because you can lift it an inch does not mean it will make it out If it does then you sir deserve a trophy for having made it 30+ years of burning without warping it LOL.