Couple Mods to my new NC-30

[BobUrban]

In the process of installing my new NC-30 I discovered the fan would not fit behind the stove without using some sort of elbow in the stove pipe eliminating my straight shot. To circumvent that bend I took the liberty of modding the fan and building a curved pipe to allow it to hang below the stove.

I also just do not like the gold hardware so I fabbed up a little handle. It is press fit for now to see if it stays cool enough to handle. Once I get the heat test out of the way I will take the door to the shop and tack the handle in place with a couple welds. For those in the know - how hot does the handle get on this stove?

Just waiting for my new 6" Dbl wall stove pipe to show up in the mail and I will fire this thing up and burn off the stink on a cool morning with windows open and fans blowing.

I am also adding onto the brick hearth for a place to stack wood inside w/o the mess and installing tile in the floor out front to meet code. I think I am going to love this stove.

Bob Urban

 

[PapaDave]

Love the handle Bob, but why not a knife?
Not sure on the 30, but the handle/rod on my stove gets pretty dang hot. I'm glad it's got one of those spring handles on it.

 

[BobUrban]

Yea - I may have to go bigger on the bird cage fab but hoping I can get away with the little one. As long as I keep direct heat away from the knob on the end - I can see that part getting really hot!!

Fortunately I have welding gloves by the box load so worst case I will just have to wear them. Probably a "best practice" anyway but I have a tendancy to leave them off from all my years welding and not wearing them when I should

 

[pen]

With the exception of this slight modification:

this is my favorite



pen

 

[BobUrban]

Well the handle doesn't get hot so that is a go. Now I just need to fab something up for a handle on the draft slide. Stove is working great and hearth is not finished. Waiting for my electrician to come over and move a plug up behind the TV so I can finish installing the brick on that end. Electricity scares me - anything else I will DIY.

 

[BobUrban]

I have discovered what others have before me. The ash plug is dumb!! I will be picking up a fire brick and replacing it in the near future so my tools stop hitting it. Beyond that I have zero complaints with my investment in warmth.

Well I do still wish she opened on the left but not 1000-1500$ worth for a potentially equivilant stove - Potentially being the key word.

 

[pen]

while you are picking up the firebrick at the hardware store, get yourself a piece of 1/4 inch rod, and some door gasket rope to fit over it, and place it up between your baffle boards to keep them from shifting around / fill the factory gap. BrotherBart came up with that solution.

pen

 

[BobUrban]

Thanks Pen - Did that mod right out the gate after reading BBart's reply to another post. I had some gasket rope left over from my VC work last year and a welding rod slipped in there nicely.

 

[BrotherBart]

Put the rod and rope on either the right or left side so the rope isn't constantly in the flame path.

 

[Jags]

Are we gonna have to start a new show?

Pimp my Englander...

 

[BrotherBart]

When the only BS you are interested in is burning stuff...

 

[herdbull]

Pen,
love that pic. I will be doing that "mod" this weekend and get rid of the bloody ash plug. Uhhggg...

2 weekends ago I noticed the 30 had a significant air leak coming from the plug. The ribbons of flame were shooting straight up, so I held my welding glove over the hole in the ash drawer and it stopped. I cut a piece of S.S. and sealed it up with some high temp silicone from the bottom side. Air leak gone! Ash plug, gone, as soon as as I can buy some brick.

Bob, that has me thinking now..... my 30 is in the fireplace so I can't access the fan. Someday I'm going to have to and I should yearly for oiling. Where does that put the oil hole? Wondering if I add something similar that would get it below the stove if I could access the oiler hole from the front.

 

[pen]

I used furnace cement on the bottom of the brick that I used to cover that hole. RTV isn't going to hold up long inside a stove. When you replace that plug with a brick, either just let ash fill the gaps and do the job, or be OCD like I was and put some cement down around it.

pen