It's Just Too Hot for Comfort ...

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » Tue. Jan. 06, 2015 7:08 pm

joeq wrote: .13 would suck golf balls through a garden hose.

My draft will go over .20 on a cold day without the baro. Even with the MPD closed it used to hit .12 easily. Now it sits between .03-.05 most of the time.

Post by **Lightning** » Tue. Jan. 06, 2015 7:11 pm

Smokeyja wrote:I got my Magnehelic gauge in . I didn't realize how large it was ! I like it though!

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Now I just need to figure placement and make a little metal plate for it to mount it .

So what kind of numbers window should I be looking for here ?

Where's the probe in relation to the stove, mpd and chimney? .04 to .06 is plenty. I have my baro set at .03 but during extreme cold and hot fire it runs .04 to .05

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Tue. Jan. 06, 2015 7:20 pm

joeq wrote:Is that registering your current draft Josh? .13 would suck golf balls through a garden hose.

Haha no . It's still in the package . I need to get some copper tubing and such and make a steel housing for this is sit in . I also need to get some more piping and redo the flu piping . Below is what Paul has walked me through. Although it'll be close but if I out a T up tight I should be able to do this correctly.

Sunny Boy wrote:Mano hookup doesn't have to be fancy, or super air tight.

Mine is just the tube that came with my Dwyer hand-held mano from an oil burner tune-up kit. The tube is bent sort like a question mark so that it hangs in a slip-fit hole in the pipe.

You can use a piece of 1/8 inch brake tubing and some automotive vacuum tubing.

You want it in a straight section of the stove pipe, between the stove and the MPD, and at least a foot from any bends, or the MPD plate, so that you don't get flue gas turbulence throwing off the readings.

Paul

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 6:34 pm

I mixed Kimmels in this morning as I knew I was going to run the stove at least at 300° at the top . I mixed it in with the Blaschak . It's working nice and humming a long . It's been 12 hours on this load and I will wait before I go to bed to top it off . The house is 75° and its 24° and dropping outside . Heating 1287sq ft with old sash windows and drafty floors .

Sure wish I had that gauge hooked up. In due time !

joeq · Post by **joeq** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 7:20 pm

Funny thing, Josh, I just put in my 1st bag of Blaschac since Nov, and putting the Kimmel on hold. Curious to see the results in a few days. Unfortunately the temps are plummeting, so an equal comparison is gunna be tough.

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 7:40 pm

joeq wrote:Funny thing, Josh, I just put in my 1st bag of Blaschac since Nov, and putting the Kimmel on hold. Curious to see the results in a few days. Unfortunately the temps are plummeting, so an equal comparison is gunna be tough.

Hope they are good ones for you! It will be nice to sit back by your stove and appareciate the warmth you have created

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Best seat in the house !

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freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 7:58 pm

Good Lord Josh, how come ya only got 3 toes?

sorry, I found em

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 8:15 pm

freetown fred wrote:Good Lord Josh, how come ya only got 3 toes? sorry, I found em

Haha . Man after work it always feels good to get those damn work boots off and dry them out by the stove . Work is cold too! It's no fun. The building has no heat in it and we have to leave the doors open to run a specific machine . I helped to build and design this crazy hardwood mat making machine and now I'm usually running in down at a saw mill just east of me . I had my bibs on today. I tried to talk them into at least some wood stoves I could build for them you know being a saw mill we have all the free would we want lol. It was a no go so far .

lobsterman · Post by **lobsterman** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 8:28 pm

Smokeyja wrote:
joeq wrote:Funny thing, Josh, I just put in my 1st bag of Blaschac since Nov, and putting the Kimmel on hold. Curious to see the results in a few days. Unfortunately the temps are plummeting, so an equal comparison is gunna be tough.
Hope they are good ones for you! It will be nice to sit back by your stove and appareciate the warmth you have created .

Best seat in the house !

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Gotta love how the No. 6 throws the heat out the sides. Part of the convection pattern that makes the stove so great.

windyhill4.2 · Post by **windyhill4.2** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 8:35 pm

I could never put my feet that close to our stove. How can you guys put your feet that close to those stoves & be comfortable.?I thought those stoves pump out lots of heat,where is the heat coming off of it ?

joeq · Post by **joeq** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 8:35 pm

Wow Josh. I never really noticed how "big" those 6s are. In your picture, it looks over a "foot". (Get it?, Shoes off? Piggy toes? Foot?.....Never mind)

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 8:54 pm

lobsterman wrote:
Gotta love how the No. 6 throws the heat out the sides. Part of the convection pattern that makes the stove so great.

Exactly! I need to make a video of the smoke test on them. You can see the convection swirling the smoke up to the fire pot and then forcing it back out . This is why I will never need a blower/ fan with one of these . William was right about everything on this stove . I haven't been as happy with something I have ever bought as I have with this stove .

windyhill4.2 wrote:I could never put my feet that close to our stove. How can you guys put your feet that close to those stoves & be comfortable.?I thought those stoves pump out lots of heat,where is the heat coming off of it ?

The convection current it creates really helps with allowing you to put your feet there . I sometimes lay back and put my feet on those bottom rails which I assume is what they are there for . Now if you stick your foot under the bottom cupped nickel skirt then you're in for a burn ! Don't ask .... Yes I tried it haha. They do put out a lot at the bottom. One day I will have a IR thermometer and can actually take readings . This house is really old and the ground is fairly close to the floors. They are drafty and if you ever read any of my old threads in my WM stove one of my big complaints was cold floors and a cold draft coming in from the half assed sunroom . But this Glenwood 6 really warms up the floors . Even in my sunroom the bricks aren't cold . In fact the thing puts so much heat out in the right places that I can open the curtains to the sun room and feel no draft. If the wind blows hard you can see the curtains move to the sunroom but the stove isn't phased it just keeps heat in those rooms . Naturally the house was built for a convection. Originally it had 4 stoves in it . Two upstairs and two downstairs . One being a cool stove in the kitchen . It also had a outdoor kitchen outside that I found remnants of bit coal in. So the kitchen and dining room are the coolest points and the air is drawn mainly from there so they stay cooler and it helps to move the air into the sunroom and upstairs for a rather even temp across the house . Old technology is amazing . I would imagine that when you're entire heating relied on heating with a stove that they got it right ! And this is my only heat source ... Technically I have a few baseboards left ... But I never ever used them!

joeq wrote:Wow Josh. I never really noticed how "big" those 6s are. In your picture, it looks over a "foot". (Get it?, Shoes off? Piggy toes? Foot?.....Never mind)

Haha that's a good one ! When I uncreated this and put it in the house my wife and I were at a loss of words . It was big in our small little house. We have sense become used to it . And when I read the technical fire code clearances I was rather irritated . They were a little too extreme for this sort of stove and would have had me put it in the middle of the room haha . That obviously didn't happy!

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 9:38 pm

2° & dropping with a strong wind so not "too hot for comfort" tonight. Forecast is for a -20° wind chill by morning with the temp around -5°. Hope everybody stays warm.

Photog200 · Post by **Photog200** » Wed. Jan. 07, 2015 11:42 pm

Josh, I mixed in some Kimmel's in the BB tonight, probably on 40% and I can see a little difference in the heat coming off the stove. I kind of chickened out of filling it all the way with Kimmel's after reading the problems you had with it. At least I know I will be able to burn it fine as this mix. Stay warm and safe, it just went down to -2° here.

Randy

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Thu. Jan. 08, 2015 10:43 am

Photog200 wrote:Josh, I mixed in some Kimmel's in the BB tonight, probably on 40% and I can see a little difference in the heat coming off the stove. I kind of chickened out of filling it all the way with Kimmel's after reading the problems you had with it. At least I know I will be able to burn it fine as this mix. Stay warm and safe, it just went down to -2° here.

Randy

So the mix did you well through the night ? I know mine did ! I didn't have a lot of ash either . I was surprised .