Russo#2 C/W

Hi all, new to the Group.

I'm from Mass and it is that time again to think about the Stove. I bought my home 21 years ago and it came with a Russo #2 C/W Stove. It was probably about 6 years old or so at that time. I used it for wood only for about 11 years and then decided to try coal which I have used up til the present. Every year I clean it out, new pipes with coal, and have replaced the bricks in the back. The first set I bought were not very durable, perhaps I bought the wrong type or they were just junk. Last year I went to a Stove Shop here on rte 138 and they sold me what they described as a better suited brick. So I pulled out the old ones, or what was left and put in the new ones but was having a difficult time with a metal wedge which sits behind them, I gave up and put the wedge in front between them and the grates, worked great for half the Winter, then the wedge got beat up and the coal started jamming.

I think if I was to try again I'd need a new wedge, but I'm wondering if the old stove is too beat for coal and I should start burning wood again instead.

I know the Russo Stoves are from Mass, I have yet to venture to the store or ask their advice, that will be my next step, just looking for possible advice.

-Ug

I called Russo. They no longer make stoves but have that part $47 bucks....jeeesh, a piece of bent metal. Maybe I'll make one. Or use the beat up one. I just don't want this stove to start f'ing up Mid-Winter.

-Ug

Not the baffle, which is at the top, right?

This is a metal piece behind the bricks in the back. Anyway I replaced, with new bricks, but chips and chunks are getting stuck in the grating so I gave up. I'm living like a human this year and running the gas furnace, I just got fed up.

Maybe I'll go back to wood with it, but I think its coal burning days are over.

I was lucky to buy coal locally about $7.50 a 50lb bag, jus look on-line or in the yellow pages.