Maybe the Answer Is Not to Clean?
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Admittedly, I never got around to cleaning the stove out this year. Looked at it the other day in great detail and no new rust at all to speak of. Looks like the day it went out! It has been very humid here this summer. I have to say it's the best it's ever looked in the offseason. I did disconnect the pipe over the summer so the humidity wasn't coming down the chimney. But I always do that. At this point other than brushing the sides and the top to clean the surfaces of fly ash. I don't think I'm going to do anything.
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Sounds like my kind of plan!
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Maybe you start and finish up the heating season with some wood fires that lay down a nice layer of creosote as a preserver of the iron metal right before the coal fire season and again right after the coal season.
I had a severe problem with rusting when I ran a stoker. Now that I switched to a hand fired, I start the season on wood and finish it on wood. I get a nice skin of creosote on the metal and I don't have a bit of rust showing up anywhere anymore.
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How much wood do you end up burning in a season Larry?blrman07 wrote:I had a severe problem with rusting when I ran a stoker. Now that I switched to a hand fired, I start the season on wood and finish it on wood. I get a nice skin of creosote on the metal and I don't have a bit of rust showing up anywhere anymore.
At the most maybe 1/2 cord. I also use it in the bucket a day that I have for domestic hot water to get the fire going and then I add coal of any size above buck. I have been known to top off the bucket a day with a couple inches of rice to cover the fire and keep it going all night.
I have gotten a 12 hour burn from the bucket a day but you have to be pretty diligent with the loading and such.
I have gotten a 12 hour burn from the bucket a day but you have to be pretty diligent with the loading and such.