Bit the bullet.. ordered an NC-30 today.

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stoveguy2esw said:
you're gonna love this stove (at least after the burn in, it's gonna stink and offgas smoke for an hour or so)
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I break em in really slow -,indoors with a window open. Hardly notice any smoke that way.
 
stoveguy2esw said:
you're gonna love this stove (at least after the burn in, it's gonna stink and offgas smoke for an hour or so)

feel free to drop me a line if you run into any questions, I see BB has already supplied the "virtual tee shirt"( I gotta get some of those printed off).

Welcome to the ESW family!
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Thanks Stoveguy. Am pretty excited(and little nervous LOL) to fire it up in the fall. Still gotta install the.chimney and build a hearth pad for it. Always awesome when there is a company employee on a forum!


BrotherBart said:
Lookin good. Yeah those HD drivers are scary. When they delivered my fridge the guy stopped too soon coming up the hill/driveway and skidded a twenty foot box truck backward with the brakes on and stopped one foot from the pole with the transformer on it. !!!

PS: Your are gonna like that heater.
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Wow! Sounds like yours was pretty lucky! Mine was as well as the phone company came out and fixed it the next day for free.
 
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Why wait until the fall? I bought mine in March and built the hearth by June. In July I built a chase on the second story and popped out the roof. By August I was too antsy and had tons of lumber scraps lying around. I couldn't wait any longer.

All the windows were wide open, it was a breezy day, and the fans already going anyways because its August......got it up to 550F stovetop. Of course I did a number of fires to gradually season it but boy did it smoke!!!! Glad I did it then! The stink went right out the windows.

Once fall came around and I started really using it for heat it still stunk/smoked a little bit when I hit a new high temp. Made me happy that 90% of the break in process was done over the summer or it would have really stunk.
 
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