Upset with simpsons QC on their DVL pipe.

I finally picked up the adjustable DVL stove pipe i've been needing, It took me a week to get it and only 5 seconds to ruin the paint finish. I slid the two sections together without even considering that the female end may have dings in it. Long story short my shiny new pipe has 5 roughly foot long vertical scratches and i'm pissed, you would think at the price of this stuff that simpson would put some sort of cap on the ends to prevent this from happening.

Should I touch it up with stove paint? Or will that make it look worse?

Hogwildz said:

Call Simpson, see what paint they use/recommend, and repaint it. Easy enough.
Can't really blame them for your oops. Any paint will scratch when a rough edge is rubbed along it.
Do make sure you use the same paint they sues or comparable, as some paints even if both high temp don't mix well together.

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Ya I know, I should've checked that ahead of time, you would just figure at the price and with how flimsy the female end of that DVL is they would at least pack it a little better (it has room to bounce around.) That's a great idea Hog I will give them a call in the AM, thanks!

CTwoodburner said:

I am trying to figure out how you have such large scratches. Are you saying you slid it in too far and then back out again and that is how it scratched? As noted, painting a little bit of pipe is not too big a deal as long as you get the correct paint...

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Ya I was testing the fit, I was curious how tight the seam was, I didn't cock the pipe or anything, there were just a few dings from "handling".

UPDATE: I know BeGreen wanted to know this. I contact M&G and they told me that they recommend Stove-Bright, and emailed me a link to a pdf for their touch up bulletin. I guess they must have changed the formula BG.

http://www.duravent.com/docs/news/Stove_Bright_web.pdf

BeGreen said:

Thanks for the update. This is good to know. Maybe this happened with the switch from Simpson to M&G? Stove Brite made an instant mess of my pipe. It still doesn't look quite right.

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M&G seemed to emphasize that it will match AFTER your stove paint has cured. I don't know if this was your situation or not.

BeGreen said:

Not a chance with my case. The Stove Brite touch up instantly started alligatoring and wrinkling. The paint was completely incompatible. I had to wipe clean the mess and sand, then repaint. Our hardware store only had Krylon Satin Black hi-temp which has a glossier finish when it gets heated. Maybe matte would have worked better.

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I'm going to test it on the section of pipe that will be inside the sleeve, i'll report back.