Glenwood 116 to Help Out Little Tiget

 
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Post by PJT » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 10:12 am

What kind of damage to the firepot would overfiring with wood cause?


 
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Post by Wren » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 12:53 pm

Thanks, everyone. I'm pretty happy. I was kind of surprised to find a Glenwood at all, never mind in such good shape. And the trip to New Hampshire was beautiful with all the mountains and a nice mental break and the guy had two beautiful dogs. After watching the videos about the #6 (I think) I was feeling that a Glenwood was a somewhat unattainable goal. I'm still a little surprised that it was there when I wanted a coal stove and that I have it!! And the seller used it so I'm not really worried. I think I'll get it started just in time for some horrible March weather. We just never know ahead here.

Thank you, I'm glad to hear the nails are okay. Being ignorant on the topic makes me afraid of anything that does not look regulation. To me the stove looks pretty smooth and unused inside to me. Imma light 'er up and keep an eye on the monitor but it will probably be fine. The Tiger has a four inch grate and yes, this is pretty impressive for size and will heat the house more easily than the little woodstove and the Tiger, and more important, I won't have to load it every two minutes to keep it going. I have a big imagination so the past comes alive for me with this stove and I love the solid feel and all the work and creative thought that went into it. Fantastic.

So, I'll finish the clean up and find the 6 to 5 reducer and get the hearth area ready and find a handle and get going. Should I confess that I bought the big pile of rust? It is not a "light her up shortly" story like the one I just bought but I don't care. One day I will have both ends of the house well covered but I guess that one will go in a different part of this board. And in my retirement home, though I am not wishing the years away, I might put the Tiger in a bedroom down a wandering hall, to warm it for the night.

I'm glad you are all so willing to help along people new to coal, and very grateful. Ha! Even the word grateful takes on new meaning for me. Or is that what it originally meant?!!

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Post by franco b » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 2:16 pm

That rust bucket is a very interesting stove. Pictures of the back and grate would be nice.

Does your chimney run up inside the house or is it on an outside wall? I ask because if inside, it will contribute to heating any upstairs rooms it runs through. A higher stack temperature might then be more desirable than if the stove were equipped with a back pipe.

 
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Post by Wren » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 2:40 pm

That's a terrific thought! Yes it goes though the upstairs. Heats two bedrooms, really. They complain during what Nepa calls the shoulder months that it is too warm.
I know there are problems with this one but I fell in love with a hilarious story in the histories here and couldn't resist. One day I'll have a range too and go off grid. As long as a pick up can get coal in....

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Post by Wren » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 2:45 pm

It might be years but you know, I could never leave an old person sitting by the river with frost bitten feet.

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Post by Sunny Boy » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 2:52 pm

Wren wrote:That's a terrific thought! Yes it goes though the upstairs. Heats two bedrooms, really. They complain during what Nepa calls the shoulder months that it is too warm.
I know there are problems with this one but I fell in love with a hilarious story in the histories here and couldn't resist. One day I'll have a range too and go off grid. As long as a pick up can get coal in....
That firepot with the air channel sides and that wide-tooth grate look like it's meant to be a Bit (soft coal) airblast type stove. If I'm correct, here's guys down in western Pennsylvania and points west and south in, soft coal country, that would love to get their hands on that one. ;)

Radiant, and with a secondary heater outlet, too. That's one we don't get to see often.

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Post by Sunny Boy » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 3:17 pm

One other thing I forgot to tell you. How you turn those triangular grates can help, or hurt.

Each morning, when the ash bed is it's deepest, and you give the grate bars a 1/3 turn to grind and drop any clinkers, always start with the handle toward the middle and downward.

For the left-hand pair of grates, put the handle on with the grip down to the right at 5 o'clock. Then lift up counterclockwise to 12 o'clock.

With the right-hand pair of grate bars, handle on with the grip down at 7 0'clock and rotate the handle up and clockwise to 12 o'clock.

Finishing with the handle straight up lets you know that each set of grates finishes with a set of teeth flats facing up to support the firebed.

By starting with the handle toward the middle the cogs turn the outer grate bar's top away from the firepot sides pulling any clinkers away from the sides and dropping the clinkers down between the grate bars instead of packing them against the firepot sides.

Then you can do the ash shaking with very short choppy strokes of the shaker handle back and forth. The handle only has to move about an inch in either direction. More than that and you risk dropping larger pieces of coal in between the grate teeth that can jam the grates open. Stop shaking when you see small embers falling and an even orange glow in the ash pan area.

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Post by Wren » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 4:54 pm

Thank you, Sunny Boy. All these details are very useful.

I knew it could burn bit, and a post somewhere says anthracite just as well, but I Don't understand the secondary ...part.
Do you know that bit in Alberta is 45 dollars a ton and law forces them to also sell to individuals so they are open one day a week for that? It's been tough enough and I'm thinking the older I get the more the option of burning bit if times are trying -well what a brilliant invention. I think there's a crack in the pot but I have time - God help me!! to sort all that out. With anthracite in B.C. I wonder how things will go. I either have to be far out or move because apparently we get fined for burning coal here. Ha! It's all me eye and Betty Martin.

 
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Post by Wren » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 5:18 pm

Pjt, I Don't know and in a bigger stove maybe it doesn't happen, but when I started the anthracite in the Tiger with a wood fire the elbow that came with the stove turned bright red. It only happened the first time :lol: , but the wood fire made a real mess on the firebrick.

 
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Post by franco b » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 5:37 pm

Wren wrote:It's all me eye and Betty Martin
Now look at the can of worms you have opened.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=It's+all+me+eye+and+Betty+Martin

Never heard that before and still don't know the meaning.

I can understand bit being prohibited because of the smoke, but not anthracite.

 
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Post by joeq » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 5:55 pm

Wren wrote: Ha! It's all me eye and Betty Martin.
That's a new one on me too. Thought it was an Irish quote of some sort. Thanks for posting the link FB. Learn something new on this site all the time. :)

 
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Post by Wren » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 5:57 pm

Lol. A Latin prayer?
I always assumed.... Well my grandmother was born in 1888, and the way she used I thought it meant....
Well you know...George says Henrietta has the hots for him and friends say, disparagingly, "What makes you think so?" And he says well I was looking at her and the way she looked at me and I gave her a wink..." In other words, there is nothing there and George is full of malarkey. At least that's what I think....
And we aren't't allowed to burn any coal inside at all. And that's all nonsense and one article said is that the govt is just protecting the gas/ electric monopoly. Trumped up proof etc. All me eye and Betty Martin.

 
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Post by Wren » Thu. Feb. 23, 2017 6:02 pm

Well. I guess really it means gossip more than nonsense but use over the years....

 
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Post by Wren » Tue. Feb. 28, 2017 9:45 am

Took a few days to loosen the bolts. This is not important at all, but there are two layers of I guess mica in the Windows. Any reason for that or can I just put one in as I did with the Tiger?

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Post by joeq » Tue. Feb. 28, 2017 4:42 pm

I can only imagine, (if the 2 pieces are layered), that one 9the inner one) is a protector for the outer one. I was contemplating doing that with my 111.


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