Our Glenwwod, Modern Glenwood Oak, Glenwood Oak 40

i see, the cassette comes out the front, but the gears are on the back end. I had that confused.

i still have alot to consider.

Im liking the wood blocks paul. cause you preety much have to lay on the floor if the stove is in place. I never had the big 118 but worked on the 114and 116,I guess they are the same,are they with steel back pipe? wilson

wsherrick wrote:Then according to your specifics a Glenwood Oak 30 or 40. It has the spring loaded dampers for air tightness, front geared prismatic grates. Back pipe option also and they are readily available and reasonably priced.

William, does the Glenwood Oak 40 have roughly the same size fire pot as the Crawford 40 ?

was there a magazine option for the Oak 40 ? I don't seem to find any sales lit. for them.

thanks,
steve

nice pics with the bottom pan off.

wilsons woodstoves wrote:Im liking the wood blocks paul. cause you preety much have to lay on the floor if the stove is in place. I never had the big 118 but worked on the 114and 116,I guess they are the same,are they with steel back pipe? wilson

Yes, one probably would have to lay on the floor, at least to see to guide the two arms into their recess. But, at least there's no need for major dismantling of the stove.

From what I can tell from pictures of the 114 and 116, the 118 is just larger. As William has said, these could be ordered with different features. Of the pictures I've seen of Modern Oaks, most came with a back pipe, but it seems that about 50% are missing the pipe. There's at least two of us on here with 118's missing back pipes that are hoping to work with another member who has a complete 118 back pipe to have the back pipe cast parts reproduced.

I have seen one Modern Oak that just had a cast iron block-off plate where the back pipe's bottom casting bolts on to the back of the ash drawer.

Some of those with the original back pipe, had a pipe flange off the back side of the pipe inline with the flange to the stove barrel. In that case, there is a cast iron oval cap closing off the top of the back pipe. And, I've seen a few where the back pipe had no rear flange, or cap. The back pipe connected to the stack, straight up, at it's top.

Paul

KingCoal wrote:i see, the cassette comes out the front, but the gears are on the back end. I had that confused.

i still have alot to consider.

Cassette? It's older than that, . . . 8 track at least !

Paul

There is one really convenient design feature that I really like about the Glenwood No 6. For some reason I never mention it, but; it is an important feature. The entire grate assembly is mounted in a frame which is made to easily slide in and out with all the grates intact and assembled. You can simply lift any one of the grates with its gear right out and put back again with your hands. Or you can take them all out just as easily. No tools required.
They were really thinking when they designed it like that.

that's kind of what I gathered from pics of both the #6 and #8.

as you have said, too bad most of all the really nice design points didn't end up in one stove but, the combination of features that were marketed are still quite desirable.

thanks,
steve