linearb
06-30-2022, 12:42 PM
In another thread which is still on the front page I had been considering a Leader, and someone very nicely found me this D&G setup used for $3k, which I bought after renting a truck and inspecting it.
https://i.imgur.com/J9XOxIn.png
After we moved it into our shack (took 3 people even with the bricks out, do not try to move these with the bricks in, ha) I ripped out the old insulation. After wire brushing all the galvenized on both sides, my spouse measured and cut new insulation, then I rebricked it and put stove paint on the outside
https://i.imgur.com/TFvPq3S.png
The former owner just used a piece of flashing sitting on firebricks for ash to hit; I am probably going to build a little steel box out of some steel siding I have and let that sit on top of firebricks on top of insulation, since my floor is wood and not dirt in here (also why I bothered with insulation under the whole arch body; this sits substantially closer to the floor than the old DIY arch I had did.
https://i.imgur.com/ytZJOvp.png
I'm going to do 2-3 short fires with water to cook off the paint smell and cure the stove cement; then I will probably try a long water boil, to put some numbers on startup time, shutdown time, gallons needed to shutdown, and gph at peak (which the former owner reported as being 20 or just under, if using decent hardwood and keeping it hot, which is consistent with what I have read). He sold me a blower fan he'd bought but never installed, I might do that at some point but I've got 2000 feet of new lines to put up, vacuum to install, a storage tank to move that's gonna take 4 people, etc. Lots to do :)
https://i.imgur.com/J9XOxIn.png
After we moved it into our shack (took 3 people even with the bricks out, do not try to move these with the bricks in, ha) I ripped out the old insulation. After wire brushing all the galvenized on both sides, my spouse measured and cut new insulation, then I rebricked it and put stove paint on the outside
https://i.imgur.com/TFvPq3S.png
The former owner just used a piece of flashing sitting on firebricks for ash to hit; I am probably going to build a little steel box out of some steel siding I have and let that sit on top of firebricks on top of insulation, since my floor is wood and not dirt in here (also why I bothered with insulation under the whole arch body; this sits substantially closer to the floor than the old DIY arch I had did.
https://i.imgur.com/ytZJOvp.png
I'm going to do 2-3 short fires with water to cook off the paint smell and cure the stove cement; then I will probably try a long water boil, to put some numbers on startup time, shutdown time, gallons needed to shutdown, and gph at peak (which the former owner reported as being 20 or just under, if using decent hardwood and keeping it hot, which is consistent with what I have read). He sold me a blower fan he'd bought but never installed, I might do that at some point but I've got 2000 feet of new lines to put up, vacuum to install, a storage tank to move that's gonna take 4 people, etc. Lots to do :)