316ti Liner and coal

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sebring

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Oct 3, 2011
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I just lined my chimney with a 316ti flexible chimney liner for my wood stove. Now im thinking about getting a coal stove as well, but the place where I bought it says its good for everything except coal. Great, so I will need to run a SS chimney outside the house now. But if I burn anthracite coal only, and it burns just as clean as the other fuels, why cant I use the 316ti chimney?
 
Coal has sulfur and chlorines in it, wood not
It forms suffuroxide what reacts with the titanium (Ti) in the SS.
Creates pinholes and eats your chimney liner away
 
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