Country Flame Ovation 2600

[IHMan]

Anyone have experience with this stove?
I'll be picking it up this weekend and would like to know if the firebrick is removable?
Any tips on moving would be appreciated.

 

[Poindexter]

I used to have a Country Flame Ovation 2xxx before I upgraded to a Blaze King. EPA cert, non cat?

For moving, hire young men and buy them a pizza.

For bricks, anticipate needing pumice rather than the cheaper clay bricks. Pumice bricks are commonly used in ceramic kilns for like clay teapots and stuff. Look for a local to you pottery guild, they might have bought a pallet of pumice firebrick and will be willing to let you have "a few" for a very reasonable price. NB: Pumice brick saw dust is nasty nasty stuff. If you need to cut some wear respiratory protection. I don't mean smoke a cigar and only mouth breathe while the saw is running. The dust off those is really nasty.

Also, look carefully at the door gasket. Mine wasn't a 2600, maybe a 2300? Anyway, the gasket on mine was as wonky as football bat, used a size no one makes anymore. I was putting 2 3/4" ropes in my door channel gasket area about every six weeks, when the guy at the stove store saw me coming in the door and said "door gasket again?" I knew I had a problem.

Mine was a fine running unit as long as the door gasket seal was good. Don't bother "trying" clay bricks in place of pumice, they won't last a week.

You are looking for 16-20%MC in your woodpile for that thing to run good, likely. Over 20% the secondary will be weak, under 16% and you'll have a blast furnace on your hands, good if you keep an anvil in the stove room and work as a blacksmith part time.

best wishes.

 

[begreen]

I don't know about the quality of these pumice bricks, but they are reasonably priced.
http://www.stoveworld.com/Pumice-Firebrick-Splits-6-Pack-p/2rpala999.htm