How do you clean your heat baffle? I'm curious as mine is getting ragged after 7 years of cleaning with brushes etc.. Was actually thinking of sand blasting it??
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tjnamtiw
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When you say ragged, what do you mean? I only vacuum it when I do the monthly cleaning. It doesn't get build up on it. At least, it shouldn't if you've been burning well.
Its not buildup, more like a stain, I once used water on a wet rag getting the ash off,(after brushing it off) and think the well water left some kind of mineral stain, doesn't look horrible but would like to get back to looking like new...
tjnamtiw
Minister of Fire
Ah, OK. That part is stainless steel. You could try some Bar Keeper stainless cleaner. I've never tried cleaning mine. If it gets too hot, even stainless will discolor permanently. I look at it as just another stove part that's going to get and stay dirty. Now you could buy a set of nice fake logs from me so no one would look at the nasty piece above it. 
Only kidding. I would never push anyone to get these stupid logs that just double your cleaning time. They look good in the summer. I just had a brain fart. Why doesn't someone make those fake logs out of dessicant so when you put them back in in the summer, they keep the stove from rusting?
Only kidding. I would never push anyone to get these stupid logs that just double your cleaning time. They look good in the summer. I just had a brain fart. Why doesn't someone make those fake logs out of dessicant so when you put them back in in the summer, they keep the stove from rusting?
Thanks for the tips tj, actually my wife made the guy at the stove shop throw in the fake log set, and a coal hod they had on display when we bought it way back when. Ive only used the logs 2 or 3 times, pain in the ask. I think im going to go with the rustic, aged, dirty look, its not so bad. Actually blends in now that im looking. Btw, I was stationed in south Georgia in the late 70s. Moody afb. Kind of liked it down there, except for the summer heat
tjnamtiw
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It does get hot down here AND humid! Being in South Georgia, you dealt with the gnats and fire ants! Well, those darn things have finally made it up here to North Georgia! I lived in Chicago before this and I swear it was hotter out there in the summer than here but winters......................... No thank you!
Well, there goes my fake log sale.
Well, there goes my fake log sale.
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