14 Hr Burn on Chubby Jr

Well, I had to be away longer than expected today-- 14 hours. It was a fairly mild day, 45 when I left and 39 when I returned. I "banked the fire" (a term often misused on this board) by heaping the coal, shutting down the primary to the tiniest sliver of 1/16 inch or so, and opening the MPD due to the warm temps. I returned to black coal on top of a red glow (picture taken before touching stove) with the coal having settled quite a bit and the max temp on the body to be 300. The coal usage was about 10 lbs. Of course, it wasn't throwing a lot of heat in the house nor did I want it to while I was away. I thought this was pretty good control for the Chubby Jr.
LM-

Indeed it is LM.

Update: After shaking real good, adding coal and opening the primaries fully, the stove has come up to 400 in 1/2 hour.

Update 2: 45 minutes after shaking the temp is at 480 with blue ladies and it is time to set her for the night, MPD fully closed and primary open about 1/8 inch. This little stove is all about finesse. The big one is just too easy.

491 barrel. 90 on pipe. Oodles of heat into the room.

Very nice! You have your draft figured out for long burns already!

warminmn wrote:

Very nice! You have your draft figured out for long burns already!

I grew up in northern Minnesota. Still thawing out. Don't need much heat to be happy.

Another happy Chubby owner. Guess it'll be a warm winter on the Cape. Any lobsters to cook on that stove?

joeq wrote:Another happy Chubby owner. Guess it'll be a warm winter on the Cape. Any lobsters to cook on that stove?

Thought of that today! Thinking of wrapping in seaweed and throwing directly on coals, clambake style.

Hum dinger. 640 barrel and 107 pipe. Hang on to your nuts. Put these fins on from the G6 seem to help extract a bit of heat from pipe but hard to quantify.

lobsterman wrote:Hum dinger. 640 barrel and 107 pipe. Hang on to your nuts. Put these fins on from the G6 seem to help extract a bit of heat from pipe but hard to quantify.

OUTSTANDING, congrats. for sure.

what a little power house.

steve

Thats a big temp gap you have. You must be getting almost all the heat from the coal as you can. I remember people using those ring fin things on wood stoves and they get more creosote, which isnt a problem with coal.

What are the zigzag rings around the stove pipe?

lobsterman wrote:Hum dinger. 640 barrel and 107 pipe. Hang on to your nuts. Put these fins on from the G6 seem to help extract a bit of heat from pipe but hard to quantify.

Lightning wrote:What are the zigzag rings around the stove pipe?

They are cooling fins, we had some yrs ago,they did get warm so I guess they worked ?

I got about 14 and a half to 15 hours out of mine no barometric damper two days in a row I actually thought the stove was out because I usually come in in the morning and its out no temperature, I opened the door and it was still glowing just like you had. I was very surprised to find a red glow I did the Hokey Pokey and left the primary air open an up she went.