Super Bear or XL questions

I have looked, until I went cross eyed, but can't find anything. Does anyone have or know where to look for the dimensions of the super bear. Either way the stove is coming home but I would like to know what I am looking at. The guy said that it is a fair size bigger than his Gramps and the flue is close to 10. The flue size anchors it for me but would like the rest of the dimensions if possible. I''ll keep looking but am starting to run in circles now.

Thanks folks



Owl

I called and asked him these questions. I won't see this thing up close until probably next weekend, when our schedules meet. The doors are steel flat tops, with trees, the trees and Fisher are painted a silvery color, the top plate is 341/8", and 1/2" sheet, the feet he said are the Fisher angle iron that run the corners and down. I asked about rounded corners and no, it's angle iron. Top vent he said just a hair under 10". Somethings add up to be an XL but others don't. I suppose it could be an early built in the shop type instead of having pieces made. Prototype maybe?. It is a three piece top he said. I was unaware that they even came with a three top, I thought that by that time all the tops were one piece and bent. He said that there are some studs welded onto the inside at very slight angle, I would assume that this would be a rest for a baffle?

That's all I know about it for now. Now I'm even more curious about the dimensions. To have a three piece XL would phenomenal, to me anyway. This may turn out to be a fantastic barn find, He wants $200. All I have seen of it is the fisher doors and the stove just looked big. It was buried under what looks like 50+ years of barn junk. But I'm a Fisher junkie and can spot them doors a mile away in pea soup fog, ha. If it is an XL that will fill out my collection. Of three piece tops, and steel doors that I thought was already complete.

Solid Brass XL doors beautiful sporting brilliant nickel, heavy as an anchor. Early door, not hacked up or butchered resto....but nice

There is an XL in the Sierra Foothills that did NOT come with ball feet....nor has the provision to thread some in. The bluish original steel hasnt even the slightest blemish to show where anything has been altered since fabrication. So not ALL came with ball feet.

As well as screens sent out with stoves and certain models, many different screens to the thoudsands of stoves, and tab locations on square...they can varry. Wonder what material the ball feet were made out of? Different screen designs for stoves too, how many different unique styles? Were all XL screens alike, or what different screens were made? What materials were the XL doors cast from, and where?

The XL with just the scrollel metal lower skirt on botton......sold with out ball feet appears to be made in Utah, not Pennsylvania......doubt they ran out of balls. Each stove was assembled individualy, options and neat feautures can be cool, rare or unique to each stove......though most were hammered out as "utilitarian" functional heating units, goal to make money and provide a nice product.