Vermont Castings Defiant

more from the stove project which won't die... yes it's being held up because I'm cheap.

Vermont Castings Defiant catalytic - trying to land a deal on one. There's a lonely one with an eight inch pipe setup.

What's with the eight inch pipe?

If I neck it down to 6 inches will it really make a difference? Seems like the "standard" is 6" pipe.

Mostly price. Surely you remember my posts about six months ago which went "So I want X and my wife wants Y"... That's really where the project sat - she was locked into the jotul and I was locked into whatever had the biggest firebox. I taped each and every oil bill to the fridge and she came around after seeing we could have bought two jotuls for what we paid for in fuel oil alone.

On page 4 of the manual it says you can use a 6" chimney, but the whole setup looks like it's an 8" oval to 8" round single/double wall stovepipe to 6" chimney. I was just wondering if people really did this and if I should be using 6" stovepipe after necking it down to 6" at the stove or if I should be using 8" stovepipe to 6" chimney. Or if I was a total fool for buying a 8" stove when 6" is the standard.

mikefrommaine said:

I looked into this myself, if it is a newer stove, VC sells an adapter for 6" chimney -- but the stove can not be used with the doors open with a screen.

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I have a fireplace for that. Stove is three years old. The person selling it bought a new house with a 6" pipe and it included a BK, so he's offing the BC. He just called me back to seal the deal. I'm picking this up Sunday.

http://reading.craigslist.org/for/1763767056.html

Actually I think I'm an idiot and I think the pipe adapter is on the stove already. I fail it quite badly.

alright so I'm going to pick this up Sunday at 1pm, anyone wanna give me pointers on red flags for this particular stove? I know if it won't hold water, it's not a good buy. anyone got anything else?

ansehnlich1 said:

I burned a Defiant Catalytic. (# 1945) It was a good stove and a great heater, easy 10 or 12 hour burns.

Look, I'm goin' from memory here, but I think it said in the manual that if you went down to a 6 inch pipe you couldn't use the front door screen on the thing. Otherwise a 6 inch pipe was fine.

Only issue I had was a warping ashpan that wouldn't go back in after emptying. That was solved by getting a second ash pan and just rotating them. I think that ash pan has a lid on it.

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So what got you into the jotul if I may ask?