Good Looking Insert?

[VTSR5]

...The Jotul C550 is 3 cu ft and likely a bit too large for your needs...

I looked hard at the C550, took my tape to the store and measured the firebox. It's 2.1 cubic feet, and that's a generous allowance, measuring tight from the andirons to the back of the box, floor of the box to the very bottom of the secondary air tubes.

 

[VTSR5]

Though some have a cast iron facade, all inserts are steel at heart. /

Well, not all of them are steel. The VC WinterWarm (Small) is definitely a cast iron firebox in a sheetmetal cabinet (I know because I had mine apart), and so are the VC Montpelier and WinterWarm (large). Morso inserts are also cast fireboxes, not steel.

 

[begreen]

It's been a long while since I looked at the VC inserts, but I just dug out the docs and you are right. Evidently it was just the shroud I was looking at when I saw one last. My bad. :red: Thanks for the correction.

 

[Dix]

Wow, I missed this thread

How did you make out?