Broken jotul f600, help

Not sure if this is shown in the manual. You should be able to find a Jotul 600 manual on line. I just looked at the burn tubes in my Oslo 500. It has three burn tubes that are held by one support on each end of the stove. These supports each have two bolts in them. If your stove is similar, you should be able to look at the right side and see how to put the left side back together. If there is a chance you overfired, you should try to see if the left side is bent or warped. Good luck.

After a couple of years of use, the tubes may rotate relatively freely while suspended between their two manifolds. But they should NOT come out. Look to see if the manifolds (the hollow rectangles on either end of the tubes, running back to front) are resting on the same plane (of if either one apears to have been bent downward). Sometimes, years of hard usage (or several over-fires) will cause the top/plate (top baffle) to warp outward -- that is, to the right and left. This pushes the top plate (which is two peices) into the manifolds, which can force the manifolds apart, hence causing the tubes to loosen. (This happened to me 4 or 5 years ago... )

If so, you need a new secondary burn manifold assembly. The manifold and tubes come in one assembly. (They were about $50, five years ago.) Fortunately, although a dirty job, it is not a very complicated fix, which can be done by a reasonably handy home-owner. I will see if I can find my response to another thread which describes how to do it in quite a bit of detail. Basically, you take off the flu collar, remove the stove top, undo two bolts, and the whole assembly lifts out. You will need some stove cement to seal the replacement. It is not rocket science, but it'll take a few hours.

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The assembly just hangs from two screws above where the manifold meets the stove casting in the back top on either side of the stove. you should be able to remove the secondary air assembly and put the tube back in. Once it is aligned and hanging properly, it should stay together. they are usually tight, but I believe they are not attached for expansion reasons, so the joints won't fracture under heat stress. Go to the Jotul site for the F600 and download the exploded view .pdf file and you will see how it is constructed. they show the part with the tubes out of the side air manifolds. this unit can be installed from the inside of the stove. The bolts are not tightened, but you need to get the washer next to the bolt head when you hang it. The manifolds have a rectangular end that fits into the stoves secondary air casting when you lower the front of the assembly, and the unit is hanging properly from the screws. that is what holds it together. It is not sealed to the stove casting. You most likely knocked the unit loose stacking wood in the stove. I would imagine you could work the tube back into the side that is hanging down and re-hang it without removing the assembly. Just make sure the washer is next to the bolt head when you hang it or it could fall off again.

Yes. Replace the blanket.

Four or Five years back, I replaced my top plate with custom-cut split-firebrick, held off the tubes with 3/16th steel dowl. (This is EXPERIMENTAL, and NOT a Jotul approved modification.) However, I had the opportunity to discuss the idea directly with the technical deptartment in Maine. They said I should use the blanket, even when using a firebrick top baffle.

Regards,

The blanket gets covered with a fine layer of ash. If it is a single tear just overlap it a bit, it should stay in place. When you replace it, you can roll the new blanket up from each side to the middle, and it will fit right through the flue collar and roll out to the outside edges. It's easier to handle it that way so you don't tear it.