Hello all. I'm having a bit of trouble with my wood stove glass. I recently bought my home and the stove came with it. It's a pretty standard black iron woodburner with a 13"x6" piece of "viewing" glass in the door. I broke the original glass trying to remove it and replace all of the gaskets, etc. I ordered a new piece of pyroceram (sp??) that fits like a glove. I also bought one of those gasket replacement kits from a local hardware store that came with the cement and a few different sizes of rope gasket. I removed and replaced all of the ropes as per the directions. I also glued the rope gasket for the glass in to its own channel and let it set up, then I added the glue to the side of the gasket facing the glass and pressed the glass to it and held it for the reccommended 10 minutes or so. There are no retaining clips or screws for the glass, only a "u" channel at the bottom that holds the glass like a tray. The directions on the adhesive reccommended a 2 hour wait time to let it set up properly, and I actually let it sit overnight thinking that would do the trick.
After a few hours of "moderate" temperature burning, the glass completely came away from the gasket - the only thing keeping it from completely falling out is the "u" channel/tray I described previously. Thinking I did everything "right", I thought maybe I was a little too sparing of the glue itself, so after a long cool-down, I reapplied the glue in larger quantity and repeated my previous work and let it all set up. This time, same result - after a few hours of burning the glass fell away again. Only this time, due to the liberal amount of glue I used, it seems the glue bubbled up and ran down the outside of stove glass (think yellow paint running down a window pane). So now, my glass still isn't in the stove and it seems to be at least semi-permanently stained by the glue running down it. I can live with the stains if I must, but I REALLY need the glass back in there asap. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks a lot for reading all of this
Ryan
After a few hours of "moderate" temperature burning, the glass completely came away from the gasket - the only thing keeping it from completely falling out is the "u" channel/tray I described previously. Thinking I did everything "right", I thought maybe I was a little too sparing of the glue itself, so after a long cool-down, I reapplied the glue in larger quantity and repeated my previous work and let it all set up. This time, same result - after a few hours of burning the glass fell away again. Only this time, due to the liberal amount of glue I used, it seems the glue bubbled up and ran down the outside of stove glass (think yellow paint running down a window pane). So now, my glass still isn't in the stove and it seems to be at least semi-permanently stained by the glue running down it. I can live with the stains if I must, but I REALLY need the glass back in there asap. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks a lot for reading all of this
Ryan
