Cleaning Glass Experiment---

I used plain water on a paper towel with the glass about 1/3 of the way cooled off. Still hot enough to turn the water to steam in a hurry. Worked great.

tvb wrote:I tried the onion - didn't work.

The guys with the manly hand fired stoves will have better success in cleaning and keeping the glass clean than the girlie man stove (stoker) because of the way the air is drawn into the stove. With the stoker stove the glass is constantly being bombarded with high heat and fly ash. The stoker blows directly onto the glass. Where as the hand fired the air is being drawn past the glass. In the end the hand fired stove will have a clear glass a lot longer than the stoker stove. The hand fired may have the same clear glass through its entire life. The stoker will have to get used to the orange glow a few months after its initial firing. Thats just the way it is. Until someone proves me wrong that is my observation of a clear glass.

Thats just the way it is.

Sigh. My other half likes the orange glow, I like the flames.

tvb wrote:

Thats just the way it is.

Sigh. My other half likes the orange glow, I like the flames.

Your Other Half probably gets jealous of you watching the dancing blue ladies.

grizzly2 wrote:Your Other Half probably gets jealous of you watching the dancing blue ladies.

It's kind of like having front row seats to watch the pole dancers through a curtain.

I picked up a small bottle of something called Firebrand Dry Clean Glass cleaner yesterday at Agway. It's working very well on removing the haze from the glass - so well that the parts I'm missing or not cleaning good enough around the edges are quite obvious. Wipe it on with a towel (I'm using a paper towel but I'm sure any old rag would do) and rub it around until you are satisfied the glass is clean. http://www.firebrandindustries.com/. It was about $4 for a tiny bottle but only a little is needed

The areas of the glass that I've managed to get clean looks like new and it's staying more or less clean. This morning there was some ash but not nearly as much as I've gotten used to after a 24 hour period. It's also not rehazing up in 15 minutes which is nice. Time will be the judge on it but it's the best I've found thus far.

Flames are nice.

I use vinagar and it works!

dad2hannah wrote:I use vinagar and it works!

Hand fired stoves don't have the same issues with the glass that stokers do.