Stove Pipe Connections

Hi, I have been connecting my stove pipe to the back of my stove simply by pushing it in as shown in the picture. Been doing this for years without a problem but admittedly it's not a very secure fit. Someone recently told me I should get an adapter that fits over the outside of the hole exiting the stove. Thoughts, any other advice?

Stove is a surdiac Gotha and I'm using 5" pipe.

You don't need an adapter, you have the piece on backwards. The whole sex down the line needs to be reversed. Attach female end of elbow to stove. Reverse all other pieces. Correctly installed, the pipe will suck any possible room air up the pipe where with your installation air will go into the stove or worse out of stove and into your room.

You are in woodstove mode giving the goo a way back to the stove.

Ross wrote:Hi, I have been connecting my stove pipe to the back of my stove simply by pushing it in as shown in the picture. Been doing this for years without a problem but admittedly it's not a very secure fit.

lobsterman wrote:You don't need an adapter, you have the piece on backwards. The whole sex down the line needs to be reversed.

Lobster sex and stovepipe sex are different. “Been doing this for years without a problem” says it all. But I would definitely suggest you drill a hole in each side of the heavy flue collar, or top and bottom, whichever is easier to get at, and put screws through the collar and into the pipe to avoid any possibility of it sliding out (say, with a puffback).

For burning wood, male end pointing down is good in case creosote runs down inside the pipe, so it will stay inside. For burning coal whichever way is easier to hook up should be OK.

+1 or which ever gives you a better fit. I drilled one hole top in my HITZER or maybe I got it that way??? CRS!!!!!!!!

That collar should have holes in it to secure the pipe with, if not I'd drill some and use stainless steel sheet metal screws. Just by chance if you have a puffback, it could push the pipe out of the stove and that of course would be a bad thing lol. I'd leave the direction of the pipe just the way you have it, male end pointing towards the stove.

rberq wrote:

Ross wrote:Hi, I have been connecting my stove pipe to the back of my stove simply by pushing it in as shown in the picture. Been doing this for years without a problem but admittedly it's not a very secure fit.

lobsterman wrote:You don't need an adapter, you have the piece on backwards. The whole sex down the line needs to be reversed.

Lobster sex and stovepipe sex are different. “Been doing this for years without a problem” says it all. But I would definitely suggest you drill a hole in each side of the heavy flue collar, or top and bottom, whichever is easier to get at, and put screws through the collar and into the pipe to avoid any possibility of it sliding out (say, with a puffback).

For burning wood, male end pointing down is good in case creosote runs down inside the pipe, so it will stay inside. For burning coal whichever way is easier to hook up should be OK.

Male end down is better for coal, too. Whenever the stove was out I'd get fly ash dropping out of the slight gaps in the pipe seams with vibration from walking near by, and any other shaking of the stove. Reversed the pipe to male end down and no more fly ash landing on whatever is below the pipe seams.

Paul

It shouldn't matter which way the connections run, what ever gets your system working the easiest! I've run pipe both ways in the past and never had any issues, except in the case that SB made about fly ash falling out of the seams. My set up required a female connection at both the stove collar and ceiling support.