Anyone have an early to late-nineties Earth Stove?

[Nonprophet]

A friend just gave us an Earth Stove 1400HT made in 1992. It's a nice little stove and we'd like to use it in our shop. The problem we're having is with the door latch. I've replaced the 3/4 door gasket as per the owner's manual, but the "cool-touch" spring handle doesn't close and keep the door tight. I have a copy of the owner's manual with an exploded view of the door handle assembly, and I'm baffled about why it's not shutting right. The "torque plate" is fully seated on the handle shaft and tightened with the required nut and washers, and yet there's still about a 1/4" of play. I've checked the door with a straight-edge, it's not warped. It almost seems like there's a bushing missing where the shaft of the handle passes through the door, or possible a spring that keeps tension on the handle, but the parts diagram doesn't show one......

Anyway, the owner's manual and parts diagrams that I have cover models: 1002c, 1003c, 1400HT, 1500HT, 1750HT, 1800HT, 1900HT, 2500HT, BV400c, BV450C, and the BV4000c. According to the parts diagram, the door handle assembly is the same for all these models. If anyone here has one of these stoves and could take a picture of the outside and the inside of the door handle/latch I would really appreciate it!!

NP

 

[Nonprophet]

Anyone? Anyone with an Earth Stove willing to help out a fellow wood burner??

Many thanks!


NP

 

[ozarkjeep]

its a threaded shaft, with a flat cut in it, you adjust the amount of washers to adjust how much tension is on the door.

I can take pics if you still need them.

let me know.

 

[Nonprophet]

its a threaded shaft, with a flat cut in it, you adjust the amount of washers to adjust how much tension is on the door.

I can take pics if you still need them.

let me know.

Hi,

Thanks for the help--a couple of folks were nice enough to offer their help. Turns out that at some point our stove handle was replaced, and with the wrong handle! Even tightened down all the way latch/tab wouldn't keep the door tight as the shaft of the handle was about 1/4" too long. We wound up just ordering a new handle for the stove for $65, and it now works great!


NP

 

[ozarkjeep]

sweet!

is that the freestanding stove, cat version like the bv4000?

2.4 Cu ft firebox?

IM envious, I wish I had a place for a stove instead of an insert.