Adding and maintaining a water reservoir to the stove

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Hoodoo Creek

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Aug 28, 2025
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Ponderay, ID, USA
I'm building a sauna for my Finnish wife. We're installing a wood stove we got for free and I want to add a stainless steel water reservoir to thd interior of the Firebox. How do I legitimately run the two stainless pipes through the wall of the stove where its sealed? Also, how does a fella maintain the reservoir in terms of the calcium scale that builds up in the reservoir? Can the reservoir be periodically removed and filled with some form of resolver?
[Hearth.com] Adding and maintaining  a water reservoir  to the stove
[Hearth.com] Adding and maintaining  a water reservoir  to the stove
 
What are you going to use the hot water for?