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Post by blrman07 » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 7:40 am

Yesterday I didn't get very much sleep and was really tired. We lit off the stove on 9-13 mostly to practice seeing how low I could get it to idle. This is a new stove and I have to learn it before I have to have it. This is kinda like going to the mall parking lot after the first snow to remind my self how the car acts in the snow. I have experimented with different levels of fresh coal load and found out this stove is VERY forgiving. Momma liked it and loved sitting in front of it in the mornings watching the blues dance so all has been well. We have had windows open and on some occasions both doors as well.

I have had to goose the fire a couple of times by opening the ash pan door after putting in a partial coal charge since I have been running it so low. I ran it on wood for a day and then switched to coal without loosing the fire. I ran it with the MPD at 30-45-90 degrees shut to see what the stove would do and found at low burns it seems to do best at a 45 degree angle. Last night I was tired and put a half pail in the stove and cracked the ash door to goose it before going to bed. I always leave the ash door handle cocked to the right so at a glance I can see it's open. Now I see that's not enough.

I got up this morning with the outside temp at 50. The upstairs was warm but down stairs the dining room and living room was hot. It was at 80 degrees. I looked at the stove and all the coal in the firebox was glowing but not burning-burning. I saw I had set the MPD at 45 degrees and that is what saved us and the stove. The stove was in direct mode. I checked the griddle temp with my infrared gun and saw it was at 550. Side wall at 240 and stove pipe was at 130. All was good. All I did was waste a charge of coal but better than that I learned a valuable lesson.

I have to come up with a way to tell myself the ash pan door is open. I am going to come up with something to clip on my belt everytime I open the ash door. This was a very valuable lesson learned through sheer dumb luck.


 
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Post by freetown fred » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 7:52 am

Hey Padre--get one of them thar kitchen timer things to set on a few minutes every time you tend& then--DING--might work, might not

 
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Post by McGiever » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 7:57 am

Someone here mentioned they wore a digital timer on necklace...bought at the dollar store. :idea:

 
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Post by blrman07 » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 8:01 am

I know me.

If it is something that I can put down I will do it and then get involved with something and forget it again. My life is still too chaotic to use a timer where I have to be in range to hear the ding.

This has to be something obnoxious that I can clip to my belt loop kinda like the good old gas station bathroom key stick. A timer on a necklace just might work though.

I gotta do something. We got lucky this time.
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Post by freetown fred » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 8:02 am

Whoops, how antiquated of me--I forgot we are in the digital era. :bang: :clap: toothy

 
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Post by freetown fred » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 8:06 am

OK Padre, here's a thought--get one of your parishiners to move in & be there every time you tend the stove--when you forget anything, they can slap ya on the back of the head :shock: Thast should work with your hectic life style--hell man, you're talkin family safety there--get un-hectic for a few minutes. How's that go??? God helps those that helps themselves. ;)

 
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Post by scalabro » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 8:13 am

Fred has a good point.
How about the misses reminding you to secure the stove before you retire?
Or a sign on the wall near the stove...."Check and secure stove before sleeping"


 
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Post by freetown fred » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 8:18 am

SLIGHT EDIT HERE--
freetown fred wrote:OK Padre, here's a thought--get one of your parishiners to move in & be there every time you tend the stove--when you forget anything, they can slap ya on the back of the head :shock: Thast should work with your hectic life style--hell man, you're talkin family safety there--get un-hectic for a few minutes. You're playin with fire (pun intended) there!!! How's that go??? God helps those that helps themselves. ;)

 
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Post by Photog200 » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 8:22 am

I have a stove in the house and one in the garage. Sometimes I reload one and while it is coming back up to temp with the draft wide open, I will go out to the garage and get that one going at the same time. Well, once, I got distracted with something else out in the garage. When I remembered, the barrel temps was almost 900° on the stove in the house. Now I set the clock timer on my cell phone before I go out to the garage for 15 min. I always have my cell phone with me on my belt and it has saved me a couple more times.

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Post by Sunny Boy » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 9:46 am

One of the gals on here kept an egg timer hanging near the stove. She got into the habit of setting the timer and hang it around her neck everytime the stove was reloaded. Timer goes off, she'd return, shut the stove down and hang the timer back up next to the stove.

As far as using the clip-on type, I've found that with some digital timers, the buttons stick out. It's very easy to brush up against the on/off, or reset button when clipped on a belt, or when they are put in a pocket. Then they are off and you don't know it.

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Post by titleist1 » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 10:05 am

ANOTHER SLIGHT EDIT......
freetown fred wrote:SLIGHT EDIT HERE--

freetown fred wrote:OK Padre, here's a thought--get one of your parishiners to move in & be there every time you tend the stove--when you forget anything, they can slap ya on the back of the head :shock: Thast should work with your hectic life style--HECK man, you're talkin family safety there--get un-hectic for a few minutes. You're playin with fire (pun intended) there!!! How's that go??? God helps those that helps themselves.
Sheesh...FF you're talking to a minister!!!! :D

 
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Post by freetown fred » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 10:11 am

T, I still stay in touch with my Padre that had our unit over to the Nam pretty much on a weekly basis-- he's got a church in Abington, Pa--yeah, yeah, it's an Episcopal Church LOL-he has always referred to me as his touchstone to reality. ;)

 
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Post by titleist1 » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 10:23 am

kinda like Clint was to the priest in 'Gran Torino' ?? :)

 
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Post by freetown fred » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 10:28 am

Indeed, exactly. :D Great movie!!!

 
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Post by McGiever » Thu. Oct. 02, 2014 12:58 pm

Take your pick...

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