Home Stove Works #25 Base Burner Restoration
- Pauliewog
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- Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: Alaska 140 Dual Paddle Feed
- Baseburners & Antiques: Fame Rosemont #20, Home Stove Works #25, Glenwood #6, Happy Thought Oak, Merry Bride #214, Sunnyside, Worlds Argand #114, New Golden Sun , & About 30 others.
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This is the hinged plate that I haven't seen ona stove before. At first I thought it was a vent for the magazine, but it seems like they went thru a lot more work with the hinge and stops just to create a vent.
There are captions on the pictures describing the views.
Paulie
There are captions on the pictures describing the views.
Paulie
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- Baseburners & Antiques: Fame Rosemont #20, Home Stove Works #25, Glenwood #6, Happy Thought Oak, Merry Bride #214, Sunnyside, Worlds Argand #114, New Golden Sun , & About 30 others.
- Coal Size/Type: Stove, Chesnut, Pea, Rice / Anthracite
There is a 3/8" gap behind the door extending down to the firepot. In the second picture you can see the offset cast into the rear lip of the magazine maintaining the 3/8" gap.
Paulie
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- Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: Alaska 140 Dual Paddle Feed
- Baseburners & Antiques: Fame Rosemont #20, Home Stove Works #25, Glenwood #6, Happy Thought Oak, Merry Bride #214, Sunnyside, Worlds Argand #114, New Golden Sun , & About 30 others.
- Coal Size/Type: Stove, Chesnut, Pea, Rice / Anthracite
Summer is almost gone, and before we know it the heating season will be here. I spent most of the summer on outdoor projects but figured I better get my broken footrest repaired and missing nameplate pattern made, so I can get them recast and plated.
I didn't want to dismantle any more of the stove, until these projects were done and fitted so I put my mind to it and got started.
After giving up searching for the correct name plate shelf, I decided to find one close to the size and modify it to fit. I picked up three different ones on ebay, and settled on the Wherle .
The plan was to grind off the lettering, cut it to fit the contour of the stove, add a filler to compensate for shrinkage, add mounting tabs, and personalize it with our family name, without doing any modifications to the stove itself.
I will post a few pictures of the progress I made so far this past week.
Paulie
I didn't want to dismantle any more of the stove, until these projects were done and fitted so I put my mind to it and got started.
After giving up searching for the correct name plate shelf, I decided to find one close to the size and modify it to fit. I picked up three different ones on ebay, and settled on the Wherle .
The plan was to grind off the lettering, cut it to fit the contour of the stove, add a filler to compensate for shrinkage, add mounting tabs, and personalize it with our family name, without doing any modifications to the stove itself.
I will post a few pictures of the progress I made so far this past week.
Paulie
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- Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: Alaska 140 Dual Paddle Feed
- Baseburners & Antiques: Fame Rosemont #20, Home Stove Works #25, Glenwood #6, Happy Thought Oak, Merry Bride #214, Sunnyside, Worlds Argand #114, New Golden Sun , & About 30 others.
- Coal Size/Type: Stove, Chesnut, Pea, Rice / Anthracite
The next step was to fill in the ends with bondo, build out two tabs so that it will hook around the existing wings and attach it to the stove.
Added a little bondo to the contour and tabs to compensate for casting shrinkage, and cut in and extended the pattern grooves.
Rather than attempting to recreate the grooved background behind the raised lettering, I found a suitable hard decorative craft paper at Michael's Craft Store and glued it in.
I also found a set of 1-1/2" plastic letters with a period font that I could bend to the contour and glue on the background.
Paulie
Added a little bondo to the contour and tabs to compensate for casting shrinkage, and cut in and extended the pattern grooves.
Rather than attempting to recreate the grooved background behind the raised lettering, I found a suitable hard decorative craft paper at Michael's Craft Store and glued it in.
I also found a set of 1-1/2" plastic letters with a period font that I could bend to the contour and glue on the background.
Paulie
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- Sunny Boy
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Excellent work, Paulie.
Can hardly wait to see the finished casting !!!!
Paul
Can hardly wait to see the finished casting !!!!
Paul
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Nicely done sir! Please keep us updated
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i'll say, the wizardry a number of you guys can pull off to keep these units in play is boggling
- Pauliewog
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- Baseburners & Antiques: Fame Rosemont #20, Home Stove Works #25, Glenwood #6, Happy Thought Oak, Merry Bride #214, Sunnyside, Worlds Argand #114, New Golden Sun , & About 30 others.
- Coal Size/Type: Stove, Chesnut, Pea, Rice / Anthracite
Thanks guys ! I worked on building up the bottom last night, and gave it a few coats of high build primer.SWPaDon wrote:+1Sunny Boy wrote:Excellent work, Paulie.
Can hardly wait to see the finished casting !!!!
Paul
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- Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: Alaska 140 Dual Paddle Feed
- Baseburners & Antiques: Fame Rosemont #20, Home Stove Works #25, Glenwood #6, Happy Thought Oak, Merry Bride #214, Sunnyside, Worlds Argand #114, New Golden Sun , & About 30 others.
- Coal Size/Type: Stove, Chesnut, Pea, Rice / Anthracite
Thanks WL ! This morning, I gave the top a few shots of primer and it's almost there.waldo lemieux wrote:Nicely done sir! Please keep us updated
Paulie
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- Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: Alaska 140 Dual Paddle Feed
- Baseburners & Antiques: Fame Rosemont #20, Home Stove Works #25, Glenwood #6, Happy Thought Oak, Merry Bride #214, Sunnyside, Worlds Argand #114, New Golden Sun , & About 30 others.
- Coal Size/Type: Stove, Chesnut, Pea, Rice / Anthracite
Keeping them in play Steve, is a piece of cake......... I nominate you as the Grand Wizard of Efficiency Modifications.KingCoal wrote:i'll say, the wizardry a number of you guys can pull off to keep these units in play is boggling
I think tomorrows project will be welding up my footrest. It appears someone in the past used it as a step ladder.
Paulie
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- Scottscoaled
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The letters are crocked.
- Pauliewog
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- Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: Alaska 140 Dual Paddle Feed
- Baseburners & Antiques: Fame Rosemont #20, Home Stove Works #25, Glenwood #6, Happy Thought Oak, Merry Bride #214, Sunnyside, Worlds Argand #114, New Golden Sun , & About 30 others.
- Coal Size/Type: Stove, Chesnut, Pea, Rice / Anthracite
Scott ....The first one was straight when I started !Scottscoaled wrote:The letters are crocked.
Besides, On a really cloudy day you won't be able to see that from your greenhouse
Paulie
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- Coal Size/Type: Lots of buck
- Other Heating: Slant Fin electric boiler backup
You know I'm kidding? That is some nice work. How did you do it?