Oak Andes 216 for Sale Near Me...

dhansen wrote:This pretty much tells the story:

Glenwood No.6 Base Pan.

What a shame the original patterns no longer exist. Anyone check that warehouse?

No news on my front as far as the stove goes. Still waiting to hear from the seller but I see they updated the listing with a picture of an Andes advertisement. Holding out for a better offer, I don't know. I haven't had a chance to personally view the stove or make an offer so we shall see.

I'm sure there is a science behind buying and selling antique coal stoves, I just don't know what it is.

No science. Just mostly perseverance and some luck.

Paul

Sunny Boy wrote:No science. Just mostly perseverance and some luck.

Paul

I knew a guy in southern Maine who I think collected every P.D. Beckwith stove that came available in the state. I'll bet he had forty or fifty of them, mostly all restored in a big garage I think he had built just to store them in. That was back before I was interested in stoves and coal. Neat, but nothing I was interested in.

Just about the time coal fever hit me, I remembered him and gave him a call. I'd done some work on his heating systems and he had previously offered me one of his stoves at a deep discount. He had sold them all to one fellow who showed up with a trailer and packed them off to the midwest. That's the kind of luck I have.

As disappointed as I was, I think I made out. I may have never stumbled upon my Glenwood. I love this stove.

Yeah, luck can be a strange thing. Especially when looking for an old stove.

The girlfriend and I went to a stove shop to pickup a wood stove I ordered and we stumbled onto the coal range. Now, ten years later, the wood stove is still in the factory packing.

Was looking for a Glenwood base heater for about a year. I just missed out on that #8 at Wilson's that Pancho got. But, there were other base heaters to chose from. I went there with an eye toward the Wings Best, but came home with the Glenwood #6.

Luck stepped in again because Coalnewbie needed a base heater with a lower pipe collar to clear the low lintel of his fireplace. Turns out the #6 collar would have been too high, but the Wings I passed up on worked out well for him.

Yup, luck can work in strange ways.

Paul

I guess the seller either found another buyer or reads this forum and is holding out for more money because she hasn't gotten back to me as she indicated she would. I'm moving on.

He scores! Seems her trip kept her out of town longer than she suggested it would and after many attempts to make it happen it finally all came together yesterday. What a sweet little stove.

Everything is there and intact excluding the shaker handle. I think I can find one of those without too much frustration. The ash pan looks original and has some serious deterioration but I'll have a new one fabricated.

There are a couple of things I've never seen but should come as no surprise being the relative newbie that I am. The upper door has a hinged plate that I gather is there to protect you from the heat blast when loading the stove and there is vent in the vicinity of the pipe outlet (top vent, straight oak) which I assume allows you to modify the draft.

Tiny compared to the Glenwood Oak 30, but a beautiful stove nonetheless. I'll post some pics when I get a chance and maybe someone can tell me if my assumptions about the hinged plate and vent are correct. Sandblasting will commence in the next few days.

So we can assume you bought it ? Congrats then !!!

Grate shaker handles are pretty common on eBay.

That "hinged plate" is called a smoke flap. It's so you can load in pieces of wood but not have such a tall door opening that smoke comes out easily into the room whenever you open it. The Glenwood modern oaks have that smoke flap, too.

Pictures will help tell for sure, but it sounds like your "top vent" is a check damper ?

Is it like this one in the picture. That's the check damper of my brother-in-law-to-be's Beckwith Round Oak. Instead of in the pipe elbow like Glenwoods it's built right into the stove top at the base of the pipe collar.

Paul

Glad to hear you got the stove.

No shaker handle! just kidding neighbor congrat's!

Thanks, guys! Yes, Paul, that's it. It was a major effort trying to work the schedules so we could meet but it was well worth it. And very nice people to boot.

The biggest downside to me is no mica, that must have come along later as the stoves advanced. Gonna miss the glow and will probably require more attention to make sure the fire is moving along but I'm willing to put up with that.

Thanks again. I'll post pics when I can.

Just a reminder, we have a "in house" ash pan man drum roll please......Freddy!

...and he's in Maine!

Freddy...make yourself known!

Congrats and welcome to the Andes family!

Randy

Photog200 wrote:Congrats and welcome to the Andes family!

Randy

Thank you!

tmbrddl wrote: Thanks again. I'll post pics when I can.

Another congrats, and we'll wait "impatiently" for those pics. Good job.