Heed the Warning!

jrn8265 wrote:I have a 26 ft 316ti SS liner.

I brush and vacume it out at the end of each season, have a good rain cap on it, and allow it to vent properly during the off season so there is no moisture build up and my liner is as good as the first day it was installed 6 years ago and I have been burning coal now through it for 5 years.

So they last if you take care of them!

I will admit I did not clean the liner that good at the end of the season(the stove I clean real good) but the .006 liner I used is a POS,I like the flex king pro smooth bore liner that is double wall so I think it would be ease to clean and my last longer to but I still think a clay liner is better then SS and it's withstood the test of time over and over again.Keepaeyeonit

jrn8265 wrote:I have a 26 ft 316ti SS liner.

I brush and vacume it out at the end of each season, have a good rain cap on it, and allow it to vent properly during the off season so there is no moisture build up and my liner is as good as the first day it was installed 6 years ago and I have been burning coal now through it for 5 years.

So they last if you take care of them!

Exactly. Moisture, metal and coal ash do not play well together. I'm using the original smoke pipe on my boiler with 10 seasons of use on it. It's solid as a rock. I disconnect at the end of the season, clean it and store it in a dry environment. I know other guys who get 1 year out of it.

Hi all,Well I put the stove back together I started a wood fire then put on some bit I had from the local bike trail and so far It's holding at .06WC, stove temp is 350*,It's rainy with no wind,and 55* but I will see next week when I start to burn hard coal and try to get the stove temp lower.(It's going to be too warm to keep the fire going until later in the week)I removed all insulation around the pipe and sealed up the front of the stove to the brick but I think next spring I'm going to add 2 or 4 more feet to the chimney,put in 8" round clay liners with perlite in the air space.This dam thing is making me .Keepaeyeonit

Keepaeyeonit wrote:I removed all insulation around the pipe and sealed up the front of the stove to the brick

If you don't have that pipe sealed to the chimney, air may find another way in to cannibalize you draft. Maybe it could get around the stove somewhere or up thru a clean out, in the floor of the fireplace.. You may wanna - keep an eye on it

Lightning,I left the pipe in and sealed up the front and under the stove like the install instructions say to do,I don't have a ash dump in my fireplace and I checked all around the stove and shroud with a incense stick to see if I had a air leak but there doesn't seem to be any.Thanks and I will Keepaeyeonit

Keepaeyeonit wrote:Lightning,I left the pipe in and sealed up the front and under the stove like the install instructions say to do,I don't have a ash dump in my fireplace and I checked all around the stove and shroud with a incense stick to see if I had a air leak but there doesn't seem to be any.Thanks and I will Keepaeyeonit

OK partner, sounds like you have a good grip on it. I've seen others on here make a plate that fits in the chimney with a hole for the pipe. You've probably seen them too If you feel that at some point in future you think air might be finding another way in, you might try taking that route

Keepaeyeonit, that is a clean and great looking install you have there !

Thanks Echos67,I try to keep a tidy stove area so when people stop buy they can't believe I heat with coal plus I hate dust and I have very little compared to when I burned wood .Keepaeyeonit

echos67 wrote:Keepaeyeonit, that is a clean and great looking install you have there !

Yeh no kidding, if that don't get people re-thinking a Coal Appliance in the living area nothing will.

Hi everyone here's how It's going so far did the install as per Hitzer that helped some but I still can't keep a draft unless the stove temp is 280* or hotter and with outside temp is in the upper 30*s to low 40*s it still is .02" WC at best and from the past two years that's real low,I went through all the gaskets on the stove there all good the only thing I can figure is I have a major air leak in the chimney someplace but until I can do something with it my temporary fix is to line it so I got a 25' 2 ply liner(with insulation but not from them,I made up my own kit with hi temp insulation)I will install over the weekend plus adding a temporary clay liner to the top so hopefully this will work until I decide what I"m going to do.Keepaeyeonit

Hi all just another update,I installed a smooth bore 2 ply 316TI liner 25' long with 1'' of rockwool insulation and added a 2' clay liner for support and the following photo is only a temporary fix, and so for It's working like a champ 57* outside with a light breeze stove temp is 225* and the pipe temp is 150* 6'' from the outlet .03"WC at minim and as high as .08"WC with a breeze so I temporally solved the low draft problem but If the liner lasts 3 or 4 years I will be surprised,not real impressed with it at all (the only liner I like is Homesaver heavy wall but 316L is the best they make It's .020+ thick and I think 316TI would last for some time but I still think round clay with insulations and high is the way to go but that's my opinion)so now I have some time to gather my stuff for next or the following year to do this job right.Take care Keepaeyeonit