Jotul Oslo baffle plate question

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Finally picked up an ash vac for detail cleaning on my stove. While cleaning, I lifted up the baffle plate and moved it forward. When I did this it piece of sealant feel into the fire chamber. When I moved the baffle plate back into place. I could see where it came from. I've attached a pic to help. It looks like the baffle plate had a bit of sealant on the rearmost bottom portion. Is this ok to burn with it as pictured? Or do I need a new baffle plate? Or do I need apply some sort of sealant?

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First year this happened to me I smeared some furnace cement up there before burning in Year 2.

The last few years after the cement chunks fell out I burned it without sealing it up . . . with no change.

General consensus if I remember right is that the factory may ship the stoves that way to keep the baffle from being jarred and damaged while shipping and that it is not critical to keep it sealed up . . . but if you want to seal it up you can use some furnace cement.
 
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I was about to ask the same question. Cleaned my chimney last week and moved it with the vac.
 
Not really needed. You do want it back all the way though, otherwise to much by passes the tubes. I ended up taking a strip of kaowool and placed it along that back edge, i did it when i had the flue collar removed. Not sure you could do it from the front.
 
I know exactly where your talking about, just took a look at mine out of curiosity. All seems to be intact here, never ran into that situation. I would probably follow FFJ on this one, we all have the same stove
 
firefighterjake said:
First year this happened to me I smeared some furnace cement up there before burning in Year 2.

The last few years after the cement chunks fell out I burned it without sealing it up . . . with no change.

General consensus if I remember right is that the factory may ship the stoves that way to keep the baffle from being jarred and damaged while shipping and that it is not critical to keep it sealed up . . . but if you want to seal it up you can use some furnace cement.
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Thats exactly right. It's not needed, it's just for shipping.
 
Great, thank for the reply. I'll go without and see how it burns. Now I just need some cold weather.
 
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