Ok, high temp here on Strong Island was 40 deg yesterday, Had a nice fire going from about 1:00. House was at a comfortalbe 72 deg without stressing the stove at all. So, was getting round 8:00pm, stove had cooled to about 300deg and I Loaded her up more than ever before. 6 decent sized red oak splits. Got em charred up and dampered all the way down, almost put the fire out actually but there was still some secondary action firing on and off rapidly. Took out the flashlight and look at the chimney outside and no smoke so It was burning cleanly. Slowly but surely the secondary action picked up. Said to the wife "see its perfect now". 2 Hours later and the Secondaries are cranking, wife and I in our scibbies since its 76 deg. Start gettinga wiff of that curing paint smell, look at the stove and its 750deg. Crank blower to high and its goes up to 78deg in 10 minutes in the house and the stove top goes back down to 675-700deg. Man I wish I could damper down just a little more because I dont want to wake up in the middle of the night to that smell and overfire my stove by not turning the fan on high. I could even have put maybe a little more wood in there too. So a took a closer look at the damer slide and there is a cut out on the bottom that it slides through. It hits the end of the slide on the fully open (left) end, but when dampered down to the right, the damper mechanism stops about four inches before the end of the cut-out. Is that normal on my stove or do I have something blocking the slide path. I can control a fire very well but just a little more on the damper side would be nice. Hope that all makes sense. Any input?? Maybe 4 larer splits would slow it down?? I had it packed pretty tight. I dont have larger splits ready for this season but I do for next year.