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    Trick to get paper to burn longer

    Sounds like a good way to apply a nice coating of cooking spray onto your chimney when the oil vapor from the cold woodstove goes up the flue and...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Apr 5, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    OAK inlet has to be below stove?

    If your house is going to be tight enough to affect the performance of a wood stove, you're going to have big moisture problems in that house....
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Apr 5, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    OAK inlet has to be below stove?

    Good God, I think you're overthinking this just a teensy bit. I would just bag the idea of an OAK. They're pretty much pointless, anyway,...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Apr 3, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Anyone else feel wood consumption increased with storage?

    It's not lost energy, true, but it IS going to require more energy to heat. The OP seemed surprised that adding capacity (increasing the mass of...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Jan 2, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Anyone else feel wood consumption increased with storage?

    Some say this seems to defy the laws of physics, but not to me. Heating a larger mass of water to a given temperature, and then maintaining it...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Dec 31, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    What kind of stack temps do you have at full output?

    Based on that theory, stack temps should decrease even more for a very-low BTUs-per-volume unit fuel such as corrugated cardboard. Yet...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Oct 24, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Flue Size - Can I Go From 8" to ~ 6.5" Dia?

    Thanks, Mellow.
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Jan 6, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Had a scary one yesterday

    In daylight, I don't think you're going to begin seeing any glow until you get above 1000°F Take a look at the colors and corresponding...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Jan 4, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Flue Size - Can I Go From 8" to ~ 6.5" Dia?

    Thanks, Clemsonfor, I appreciate the reply, hoping some of the experts will chime in...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Jan 4, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    VC Defiant Encore 2140 - Any Problems?

    Thank you for your reply, BeGreen. I appreciate your help.
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Jan 4, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Flue Size - Can I Go From 8" to ~ 6.5" Dia?

    Hello, all, I'm planning to buy a used VC Defiant Encore 2140 to replace an aging VC Intrepid II. I was comparing my Intrepid II Owner's Manual...
    Thread by: DoubleClutch, Jan 4, 2012, 4 replies, in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    VC Defiant Encore 2140 - Any Problems?

    Hello, all, I'm considering buying a used Vermont Castings Encore Defiant 2140 catalytic woodstove (with the Warnock Hersey certification plate on...
    Thread by: DoubleClutch, Dec 30, 2011, 5 replies, in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Effects (if any) of adding a larger blower fan

    Ah. Well, that's a horse of a different color! Let us know how it works out...seems like an awful big change to me but presumably they know what...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Oct 12, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Effects (if any) of adding a larger blower fan

    Seems to me that if doubling the volume of air forced into the unit was desirable, the engineers who designed it would have specked it that way. I...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Oct 12, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Chimney Reheat Coil???

    The other side of the coin is, would you be pulling too much heat out of your stack gas to prevent creosote condensation?
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Oct 7, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Cheap wood question

    Good luck sawing it up without a carbide saw blade or chain (and even they won't last REAL long). You can pressure wash it until the next ice age...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Oct 6, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Tree Felling Gone Wrong

    That'll buff right out. (Talk about an Excedrin headache!)
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Sep 27, 2011 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    efficient design of homemade OWB

    Thank you, Tom. That looks like a valuable paper with a wealth of information. Looking forward to reading it... Edited to Add: It appears that pages...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Sep 26, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    efficient design of homemade OWB

    Benjamin, Can you give me more info on this person and his research, and where I might find it ... specifically, Hill's full name and the titles...
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Sep 26, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Clean Windows = Warmer House?

    Even if you painted the glass black, it would still radiate heat. In fact, black objects radiate heat a lot faster than white objects.
    Post by: DoubleClutch, Sep 20, 2011 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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