Hello,
My family's been at this maple thing since the 70's. Amature at best. From a Coleman stove with a pot, old "Lightning" arch with a 10' flat pan, block arch with a 2'x4' flat pan to a brand new CDL 18x48 with a 3 way flat pan as of a couple weeks ago.

I'm very impressed with the overall quality of the arch construction. Everything looks extremely well put together.
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Here's where we are having some issues and hoping there are a few others with experience with this model. It's the insulation and fire brick installation. We were sent 60 half bricks and 5 12"x36"x1" sheets of insulation board.
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I started installing the insulation based loosely on the 1 picture in the instruction manual even though the manual is for a larger sized, and slightly different unit. I started working up the ramp and towards the stack. Everything looking good.


I then started to do the sides near the door and noticed that the 1" insulation board came completely flush with the angle iron at the top. The manual's 1 picture shows the bricks sitting about 1/3 to 1/2 under the top angle iron.
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Next issue is that with the grate installed it is impossible to have the bricks slot in between the insulation board and the angle iron beside the grate. It the bricks sit on top of the angle iron. This does not seem right to me.
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