What Is Going on Here

D.lapan wrote:that looks like it would work, Im not sure what the hell is going on here but if I open the primaries at all the pot temp skyrockets the barrel temp is steady around 275-300, the bottom of this thing is stupid hot and the barrel is cold in comparison, I don't get it

What is stupid hot?. Stupid hot below should equate to higher temps on the barrel and the stack.

I don't have any reference to what an unlined pot should be at for a given barrel temp but it seems to me that 275-300 on the barrel is a pretty mild burn.

Just for giggles, I put a mag thermometer on my firepot (which is lined). I have 525 on the pot and about 570 on the barrel.

Hmmmmmm.

I had the same issue with the other stove I had

Line the pot for a better more even burn.

D.lapan wrote:I had the same issue with the other stove I had

...did your other stove have a lined pot?.

Pancho wrote:

D.lapan wrote:I had the same issue with the other stove I had

...did your other stove have a lined pot?.

No. He had a Laurel. Thread is here: Tips for a Newbie on a Oak Stove

D.lapan wrote:in the past half hr the pot temp shot up to 950* again on the shaker side and the barrel temp did not change.... so I opened the secondary air to try and calm the bed down and closed the primary air on that side completely.. I do not have a check damper, Wilson sent a circular one to install with the back pipe but I have never needed one so I didn't install it

Like others have said, install the manual pipe damper. We had manual pipe dampers with ALL our old stoves back in the days of wood burning. If not, all the heat went up the chimney. None of our stoves were air tight. That I know of, air tight stoves (Stoves with gaskets) didn't exist till around the late 70's, early 80's. No one I knew had an air tight stove. I remember everyone talking about the air tight stoves when they first come around. If I were to play around with an older stove, it would get a manual pipe damper.

He has a MPD, it's on page 3 of this thread.

SWPaDon wrote:He has a MPD, it's on page 3 of this thread.

Yes, Thanks. I over looked it.

Glad to help.

I am stumped.
Being unlined I would imagine there would be a difference between the pot temp and barrel temps. I just don't know that the pot should be glowing red and the barrel temps being not very hot.

my pot nelly runs at about 300 choked to produce heat in the upper dome of the stove. I did find out by manipulation that the coal, being fed air up through the bed burns in the center and forms a dome with an air space below it. I use a half inch rod and poke around the edges below I shake it down. this breaks up the dome and the fire seeks a new air supply. adding new coal starts the whole process of forming another "dome" in the center of the stove.

It almost seems that when the pot temp is spiking there is almost no glow or fire on the top of the coal to the point where there is Un burnt coal on top

D.lapan wrote:It almost seems that when the pot temp is spiking there is almost no glow or fire on the top of the coal to the point where there is Un burnt coal on top

To burn well and evenly the pot must not lose too much heat to the sides.

I'm gonna let it run out again and line it