Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 21:27
Smoking now!
I planned to tinker with it and monitor the temperature this afternoon but the wind started whipping around 35-40mph so it wasn't safe to mess with it.....still anxious to see if I can put some real heat to the house. It smokes like the dickens though. Still puffing away after several hours and only a little bit of wood. The chimney has a damper in it although these dampers they sell leave nearly as much open space as they block. I'm going to re-do the firebox connection above when I get some good clamps. I've got a piece of black stove pipe and a damper, but the worm gear clamps won't put enough squeeze on the stovepipe. What I've got going on now is some aluminum flashing...it actually worked great and I'd leave it as is but I think I need a damper there.
Travis
I planned to tinker with it and monitor the temperature this afternoon but the wind started whipping around 35-40mph so it wasn't safe to mess with it.....still anxious to see if I can put some real heat to the house. It smokes like the dickens though. Still puffing away after several hours and only a little bit of wood. The chimney has a damper in it although these dampers they sell leave nearly as much open space as they block. I'm going to re-do the firebox connection above when I get some good clamps. I've got a piece of black stove pipe and a damper, but the worm gear clamps won't put enough squeeze on the stovepipe. What I've got going on now is some aluminum flashing...it actually worked great and I'd leave it as is but I think I need a damper there.
Travis