Anyone use one of these stove and burn full-time with it? Are you in the upper Midwest or New England? Any problems with the stove? Thank you.
I appreciate your time on this one. I like the side door on it. My Heritage has been a great stove. I want something bigger. can you relive the ceramic baffle to clean the chimney? Does it have a stainless baffe? ThanksI think both have in the manual a 10' minimum chimney requirement, which would seem to indicate that they are very easy breathers. You may need a pipe damper...
You might find that info on the hearthstonestoves website, documents on the Manchester page, manual, exploded view, etc.can you relive the ceramic baffle to clean the chimney? Does it have a stainless baffe? Thanks
You can drop the baffle assembly, but it’s a pain... just make sure you have a slip section in the stove pipe for easy cleaning.I appreciate your time on this one. I like the side door on it. My Heritage has been a great stove. I want something bigger. can you relive the ceramic baffle to clean the chimney? Does it have a stainless baffe? Thanks
I stopped by that stove shop again today; Yes, they had both an 8360 and 8361. They had the small metal EPA tags, the 8360 is 3.0 g/hr, the 8631 is 2.1...just missed the 2020 limit of 2.0. Looking closer at both of them, the difference I saw was that the 8361 has a row of holes through the back of the air wash casting, letting some air go to the area of the front-most air tube. There was a 1/2" tall strip of sheet metal on the fresh-air side of the air wash casting, long enough to somewhat block those holes. If they are supplying additional oxygen in the area of the front tube, it may be burning the smoke more completely and getting the stove down to the 2.1 g/hr. That would be an easy way for them to clean up the burn without major re-tooling of the stove. There would also be less air shooting down the glass and supplying the primary fire on the wood. That could be why the 8360 got more BTU/hr. at the high-burn rate in the EPA tests. With them tapping off some of the air wash air and the fire on the wood presumably less, the glass possibly wouldn't stay as clean, but that's probably a non-issue.If you look at the EPA ratings, you see that high output on the 8360 is much higher than on the 8361 Manchester 2. I don't know, maybe they throttled back the air or something, because it was too easy to overfire the 8360? I think they might have had both models in the shop but I didn't look closely to see if there was an obvious difference...
I didn't look at the manual for a diagram, but if it's like the T5, the strips seal along the sides of the baffle so that the smoke is forced past all of the burn tubes, or secondary re-burn baffle.Speaking of removing the baffle, has anyone done so? Where do the stuffing strips go exactly? Thanks