Okay guys,
Last week I went out to check on a used stove with a bunch of pipe and fittings included. I looked at it all and ended up bringing it home. I needed the pipe to move my existing Fairview upstairs and this deal came with all I need except about 4 feet of double wall. I had first thought I would sell the Summit after replacing the flame shield and insulation blanket on top of the baffle but after looking it over I kinda like the stove and think it may work for our heat dog in the basement for those times the upstairs Fireview isn't enough. For me to keep it the Summit needs more work then if I was to flip it and I need some advice on wether or not I should spend the money or just forget it.
First off let me give you the situation. The Summit had been installed very, and I mean very poorly. (What is scary is the instal was done by the dealer who sold the stove) It had 2 feet of single wall pipe into a fan assisted Magic Heat unit. About 6 more feet of single wall and then about 10 feet of ICC Excel class A chimney. Clearly it was not burnt correctly and thus has issues. It appears when they would pull the knob to clean the Magic Heat unit out it would drop all the creosote directly onto the baffle insulation and eventually caused a meltdown on the top of the baffle which completely warped the flame shield. The warped flame shield had dropped down on the two corners and was pinching off the air flow onto the top of the baffle and causing heat to build up seriously in the middle.
I checked the stove over top to bottom and all the corner welds are still intact around the inside of the door way along with all the seams around the inside and outside of the firebox. It does have two small cracks on the outside of the face of the stove, one on the top right side of the door and one on the top left side of the door. These are cosmetic according to all the threads I have read on this stove and I am capable of repairing should the need arise. The top and sides of the firebox are straight and flat, the top of the stove is the same. All the exterior shields and the door along with the glass are in good condition.
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The only warping on the stove is a slight bow in the air wash metal along the top of the door. This is due to the shield that is welded on the back of it bowing as it was the center of what must have been an incredible hot spot. That piece of metal that is welded onto the air wash has a heat crack on it that I can clean up and weld up so as to not affect performance though it does not penetrate the metal so should not effect performance. The first picture is looking up at the issue from the bottom of the door. The grey metal is the bottom of the air wash metal the oxidized at the very bottom is the plate welded on and you can just see the crack. The next picture shows the crack well.
Current situation is this, I removed the guts to inspect/clean etc... To make it good I will need to replace the Flame Shield, the Baffle Assembly, the brick rails, all the fire bricks, and the door latch. In essence it would be a current series C inside. I can do all this work for about $650.00 including shipping and taxes with my local dealer. So for the 650 plus say about 150 of the original price or 800 bucks I would have a good condition Summit. I probably would put a blower kit on it someday too.
Well let me know what you all think, should I fix it or should I get rid of it. Hogwildz what say you?
Last week I went out to check on a used stove with a bunch of pipe and fittings included. I looked at it all and ended up bringing it home. I needed the pipe to move my existing Fairview upstairs and this deal came with all I need except about 4 feet of double wall. I had first thought I would sell the Summit after replacing the flame shield and insulation blanket on top of the baffle but after looking it over I kinda like the stove and think it may work for our heat dog in the basement for those times the upstairs Fireview isn't enough. For me to keep it the Summit needs more work then if I was to flip it and I need some advice on wether or not I should spend the money or just forget it.
First off let me give you the situation. The Summit had been installed very, and I mean very poorly. (What is scary is the instal was done by the dealer who sold the stove) It had 2 feet of single wall pipe into a fan assisted Magic Heat unit. About 6 more feet of single wall and then about 10 feet of ICC Excel class A chimney. Clearly it was not burnt correctly and thus has issues. It appears when they would pull the knob to clean the Magic Heat unit out it would drop all the creosote directly onto the baffle insulation and eventually caused a meltdown on the top of the baffle which completely warped the flame shield. The warped flame shield had dropped down on the two corners and was pinching off the air flow onto the top of the baffle and causing heat to build up seriously in the middle.
I checked the stove over top to bottom and all the corner welds are still intact around the inside of the door way along with all the seams around the inside and outside of the firebox. It does have two small cracks on the outside of the face of the stove, one on the top right side of the door and one on the top left side of the door. These are cosmetic according to all the threads I have read on this stove and I am capable of repairing should the need arise. The top and sides of the firebox are straight and flat, the top of the stove is the same. All the exterior shields and the door along with the glass are in good condition.
. The only warping on the stove is a slight bow in the air wash metal along the top of the door. This is due to the shield that is welded on the back of it bowing as it was the center of what must have been an incredible hot spot. That piece of metal that is welded onto the air wash has a heat crack on it that I can clean up and weld up so as to not affect performance though it does not penetrate the metal so should not effect performance. The first picture is looking up at the issue from the bottom of the door. The grey metal is the bottom of the air wash metal the oxidized at the very bottom is the plate welded on and you can just see the crack. The next picture shows the crack well.
Current situation is this, I removed the guts to inspect/clean etc... To make it good I will need to replace the Flame Shield, the Baffle Assembly, the brick rails, all the fire bricks, and the door latch. In essence it would be a current series C inside. I can do all this work for about $650.00 including shipping and taxes with my local dealer. So for the 650 plus say about 150 of the original price or 800 bucks I would have a good condition Summit. I probably would put a blower kit on it someday too.
Well let me know what you all think, should I fix it or should I get rid of it. Hogwildz what say you?
