So with the big game starting to kick off last night(big giants fan) I lit my stove in standard issue form,... fired up the super cedars and left the door cracked...................then completely forgot about it...... by the time I smelled it it was way to late,... probe (internal) inside my single wall pipe said 1300 degrees. I paniked shut the door and slammed the air shut.....as soon as i did this the room filled up quickly with thick paint smelling smoke,.... opened the windows and soon after that the fire was almost out. I was freaking out and then realized that the paint towards the top of my single wall pipe wasnt shiny anymore. I think and hope that the smoke I saw was from that ,... it sure smelled like paint. Is there anything I should check today while the 30 sleeps?
Interior probe temp said 1300!!!
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It happens, the paint is baked. This happened to me also recently. Though not so dramatic, probe read 1100F, it did set off the smoke alarm for a couple seconds. I'm thinking it would be a good idea to have a timer, the kind that beeps until turned off, set permanently near the stove. After such incident, it's a good idea to check your underwear before it heads to the laundry. :red:
corey21
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Had that happen to me once stove was 700 probe was 1300. But i did not have the paint smoke like that.
corey21
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Todd
Minister of Fire
I doubt that that 1300 temp was even close to accurate on your single wall pipe. Probe thermometers are designed for double wall pipe and read a few hundred degrees high on single wall due to the radiant heat off the pipe.
NWfuel
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fired up the super cedars and left the door cracked…................
How many Super Cedars?
Thomas
How many Super Cedars?
Thomas
bluedogz
Minister of Fire
LMAO!,.... I break them into quarters,... then use 2 of the quarters to start , I dont use kindling at all,... super cedars rock!.......well I just swept and inspected the chimney,... everything looks good. got 2 cups of creo,.. not so much coffee grounds but a few 1/4 inch flakes mixed in,... pipe looks A OK.... not to bad for having pretty much all cold starts cause its been so warm here this winter
Creature
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Had one of these moments when I used a bunch of kindling sized small splits (on top of a couple of larger splits) to start up a few weeks ago. Shut my air down at about 500 probe and it just kept climbing to a little over 1100. Lesson learned, my smallest starter splits are 3-6in (as opposed to kindling sized 1-3in) now ... with a side benifit of sligtly longer burn times (a great thing with such a small stove).
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