With VC parts supply in question, I am starting to think about a plan B. While my stove really ought to have both the refracatory assembly and the "heat exhanger" - basically just a sheet of SS with a few bends in it - replace, I can get by for a few more years by just replacing the heat exchanger, which which I ought to be able to make or have made for a lot less than VC wants for it.
Only thing is, I don't know if a special grade of SS is required to stand up to the heat. Anyone know if there is any particular grade of SS I should be using? The stuff VC used last time seems to have been not up to the job seeing is how it completely pretzeled itself, destroying the cat in the process.
Oh, if anyone has a usuable used heat exchanger left over from a rebuild they'd part with, I'd be glad to buy it. It's for an early 0028 Encore.
Odd thing is, I actually had one myself at one time, left over from my first rebuild, but can't seem to find it. Odd, it isn't like me to throw out a good piece of SS!
Only thing is, I don't know if a special grade of SS is required to stand up to the heat. Anyone know if there is any particular grade of SS I should be using? The stuff VC used last time seems to have been not up to the job seeing is how it completely pretzeled itself, destroying the cat in the process.
Oh, if anyone has a usuable used heat exchanger left over from a rebuild they'd part with, I'd be glad to buy it. It's for an early 0028 Encore.
Odd thing is, I actually had one myself at one time, left over from my first rebuild, but can't seem to find it. Odd, it isn't like me to throw out a good piece of SS!