Cleaned the flue, broke the baffle

[Fod01]

Yep....cleaned the flue, not even a coffee can of coffee grounds. Pretty happy with that.

After fighting with a cotter pin to remove the front burn tube, took the baffle plate out and set it, oh so gently, on the floor. Oh so gently picked it back up, and it split in half, front to back. Its not a vertical break, but on a diagonal, running about a 1/2" from left to right. I put the plate back in, pushed the 2 halves together, and I'm not able to see daylight thru it.

I think I'm ok here, but reaching out to the Oracles...

Gabe

 

[KaptJaq]

It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to direct the smoke over the secondary burn tubes. It will work with a crack that does not let daylight pass UNTIL you can replace it. I would replace it since I am not the most gentle at loading wood. I would shift the two parts every time I loaded the stove and that would defeat the clean burning characteristics of the stove.

 

[Fod01]

Sounds like a plan man...thanks