Power Vent St8 VF8

So in the manual and on my stove it gives only a squared up picture of dimensions from the wall. If I want to angle it in a corner should I just use the magnum dimensions? Or do you guys have an idea on distances from the wall for angled install??

Thanks for everyone's help we got the stove up and running this morning. Just have to dial it in for the temp we want in the house.

Is that hardwood flooring? They allow that? Not even ember protection??

They do not allow that but our hearth plate won't be here until 4pm. So we will lift it up with our homemade jig and slide it right under.

Does that stove have 3 full bricks (uncut) behind the stoker inside? Or, Are there angled cut bricks on the left and on the right?

Like this...
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Or, Like this...

It has 3 uncut bricks.

As always...Be Sure to Install a Carbon Monoxide Detector

Since your ST8-VF8 is the old original first generation model.

I will caution you to watch the flat baffle/shelf above the bricks, as since it is a flat surface it will collect fly ash faster than most other stoves.
If you neglect to watch how much fly ash is accumulating there it can become a restriction to the gases exiting the stove pipe.
When it get to the point of blocking the stove outlet the gases will begin back-up and can then escape into the surrounding area where the stove is installed.

Harman did realize their error in this original design with the flat baffle/shelf and quickly redesigned it to the now common "A" pent shape that doesn't readily collect the fly ash.
ST8-VF8 models were built both with the flat and the later "A" pent with the 3 pane glass in the front door and after some time the ST8_VF8 got a large single piece of glass. Later yet, the name was changed to become known as the Magnum Stoker, and now presently is redesigned again and is named the Super Magnum Stoker.

Thanks a lot I knew little about this stove because it was the old style. your help and everyone else's help was and is greatly appreciated.

McGiever wrote:As always...Be Sure to Install a Carbon Monoxide Detector

Since your ST8-VF8 is the old original first generation model.

I will caution you to watch the flat baffle/shelf above the bricks, as since it is a flat surface it will collect fly ash faster than most other stoves.
If you neglect to watch how much fly ash is accumulating there it can become a restriction to the gases exiting the stove pipe.
When it get to the point of blocking the stove outlet the gases will begin back-up and can then escape into the surrounding area where the stove is installed.

Read that part twice, then read it again. I have one of these stoves, and I had exactly what McGeiver describes happen to me and my family. Twenty-four hours in the hospital sucking pure oxygen is not fun. Wondering what's going to happen to your unborn child is hell.

Just to clarify, the spot that he means is under the collar where the stove pipe connects into the stove. I found an old canister vacuum and cut the handle off the end of the hose so that I can snake it around up there. I do it every 45 days or so. I am admittedly and understandably, a bit paranoid about it, though.