Neat trick when sitting a pellet stove on a tile hearth

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Snowy Rivers

Minister of Fire
Feb 7, 2010
1,810
NW Oregon
Took my new (to us) Advantage II T apart and removed the stove body from the base.

The stove may have been handled rough once upon a time and it would not sit flat on the tile hearth.

There was some rocking around that I did not like.

I turned the base over and found some broken welds and that the front sheet metal of the base was tweeked slightly.

After rewelding the base and adding a couple stiffeners things were better but still not up to what I wanted.

The tile hearth is also not absolutley flat, so I decided to install several strips of 3/8" wide self stick closed cell foam weather strip.

Did this on all the bearing areas and then sat the base back on the hearth.


OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH yeah buddy.
Stove sits nice a firm now with no rocking at all.

The Whitfield base is a little light as far as I am concerned.

Ya dont need 1/4" plate but the way this one is made left a tad to be desired.

The little foam strips were all that was needed to even out the bearing surfaces.


Snowy
 
I had the same problem when I installed my Quad. The Quad was not out of shape but the tile was not even and caused a small amount of wiggle. Thw Quad is supposed to come with 4 leveling screws but since I bought the stove used they were not there. I ended up using 4 round pads that were designed to be stuck onto the bottom of furniture legs. They worked well.

Bkins
 
This was the first time that I have had a pellet stove that would not sit level.

I have two quads and they dont have screws. Hmmmm maybe the company has added those in later years.

Mine were both purchased in 94 so the leveling screws may be a newer addition.

The sticky goodies does the trick for sure.

Snowy
 
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