Hi Elk,
I have rehabed a few fishers last year essentually cleaned them up gasketed the door and painted them then gave them away to less fortunate famillies.
BeGreen set me on a mission that has been a real eye opener. In reading the links that he gave, which reference other links, that reference others, etc I keep noticing a recurring theme about today’s vaunted heaters. They only have a life expectancy of 15-20 years, while the cheaper ones are shorter then that, because they, supposedly, “
degrade rapidly“.
(Scroll half way down the page to “
Appliances”)
http://www.ec.gc.ca/cleanair-airpur/CAOL/wood_stove_replace/wood_stove_rep_e.cfm#replace
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“We can expect a 40-year lifetime expectancy for good quality stoves (Houck and Tiegs (1998) while inexpensive models of lower quality degrade rapidly when used at their maximum capacity and have to be replaced every
few years (Gulland Associates Ltd, 1997). In Australia, industry suggests that wood heaters have a working life of 15-20 years (Environment Australia, 2002).”
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(Also, in the following link, testers now cite 15-25% moisture content (mc) as acceptable. But yet in the same study, & other studies that I’ve given previously to BeGreen, the same testers
whine about creosote build up from wood having 20-25% mc.
Like the saying goes; This ain’t rocket science, its just common sense. (See point 2.11, pages 36-38).
http://www.omni-test.com/Publications/rwctr.pdf)
Thus your personal rehabilitation of Fishers is, as Artie Johnson used to say; "
Very interesting". Your claiming that only a cleaning is required to put the Fishers back to work speaks volumes about their construction & durability. So when you state
An experienced burner this could work but to the novice? The label and listing code my interpetation is to ptotect these people from themselves. I have one such stove I use just to fire a couple of times a year. I know how to safely burn it. In my office at times I make a judgement call once I determine the opperator’s abilities or knowledge I have seen the old steel plate stoves buldge and split their welds from overfiring
I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that you are
not talking about Fishers. Is that a correct assumption?
Dave miss part of my message of maybe I did not make it clear I hate to see nicices purchase from a yard sale old dilapitated stoves then thing they can just hook them up.
Elk, what post(s) are you referring to since you only have one post on this thread?
Thanks,
Dave