Glenwood Is Lit and I'm Stoked

Merc300d · Post by **Merc300d** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 7:30 am

That's makes a lot of sense. Although I don't have the gas ring in , but the holes below he loading door are still letting air in. So I should still keep the secondary draft cracked a bit?

dad123456 · Post by **dad123456** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 8:13 am

long time waiting let it burn screw the oil man lol all the money is going to save maybe you can get another stove

Merc300d · Post by **Merc300d** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 8:38 am

Hi dad. I don't want to push it with more stoves. Lol. The wife might start to freak out.
It's funny because the oil company draws straws to see who gets to come drop off oil. They dread coming out because the spout is in the back of the house and is a good 200ft from the truck.

So now everybody is happy

Pancho · Post by **Pancho** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 10:10 am

Merc300d wrote:That's makes a lot of sense. Although I don't have the gas ring in , but the holes below he loading door are still letting air in. So I should still keep the secondary draft cracked a bit?

Yes. What I have found (and was suggested by William) with nut is less primary air and more secondary air post fill will help avoid puff back. Also, if you can leave a portion of the coal base exposed this helps as well and the added coal seems to light quicker.

Merc300d · Post by **Merc300d** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 10:44 am

Thanks for the tips. Stove cruised all nite. No problems. House is 72 degrees. Curious how it will do when it get cold.

wsherrick · Post by **wsherrick** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 10:45 am

Merc300d wrote:That's makes a lot of sense. Although I don't have the gas ring in , but the holes below he loading door are still letting air in. So I should still keep the secondary draft cracked a bit?

Yes, after you load the stove up you need to give it quite a bit of secondary air until you see blue flames. After a while you will learn exactly how to set each damper and it won't be so thought consuming. You will glance at the fire, be able to instantly diagnose it's state and what it needs. It will become second nature.

nortcan · Post by **nortcan** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 12:22 pm

Super Merc, very nice, stove, fire, deco, ...and certainly the best Winter of your life

nortcan · Post by **nortcan** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 12:26 pm

wsherrick wrote:Welcome to coal stove easy street. I think it's almost time to incorporate and make ourselves into a little town.

We have many safe place here in Canada Qc to satisfy the ""Coal stove easy street"" club.

Merc300d · Post by **Merc300d** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 12:27 pm

Thanks Nortcan...... I couldn't agree with you more. I couldn't agree with you any less either.

You also have two beautiful coal burning appliances that would make any coal burner jealous.

Merc300d · Post by **Merc300d** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 12:30 pm

What can I use to clean the Mica windows. They got all sh...d up when I lit a small wood fire a couple dats ago. Any suggestions anyone. ?

nortcan · Post by **nortcan** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 1:05 pm

Merc300d wrote:What can I use to clean the Mica windows. They got all sh...d up when I lit a small wood fire a couple dats ago. Any suggestions anyone. ?

An easy way to clean mica and glass window is simply to use a wet paper towel and put it on ash to get some on the wet paper, then clean the mica with it. If the mica are very black just let the damp ash work for a few seconds before cleaning it. Finish the job with a clean wet paper towel followed with a dry one. Works very well and doesn't hut the mica, believe me, I have a lot of mica on the 2 stoves

Merc300d · Post by **Merc300d** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 2:13 pm

Thanks Nortcan. It looks like you may know what your talking about with all those windows.

Pancho · Post by **Pancho** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 3:19 pm

Merc300d wrote:Thanks for the tips. Stove cruised all nite. No problems. House is 72 degrees. Curious how it will do when it get cold.

Well....I think you are going to be impressed. It's been to warm for me to crank it up for an extended period of time but the couple times I've cranked it up for a short period.....it impressed the hell out of me.

There seems to be no weak spot in it's operating range that goes from just puttering at 200-250 all the way on up. Emory told me on the phone he runs his up to where the magnetic thermometer falls off the barrel.

I am sure you'll find a comfy spot within that range.

Merc300d · Post by **Merc300d** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 3:39 pm

I total agree. This stove is impressive. I've had cruising all night till now at about 275 the house is hot as heck. I had to open some windows and my slider to cool off the temp. Thank god it's dipping into the 30 s tonight. If not , is have to let it burn out. I couldn't imagine this thing cranking at like 600 degrees. Although when the weather really turns cold , I might be tempted.

Kevin

Merc300d · Post by **Merc300d** » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 3:42 pm

I'm actually going out to be buy an infrared temp probe. I'm curious to see how accurate this gauge s are. Was reading that some have said that there not. We ll see

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