Just found out there are some surface rust on top of the surface of the baffle tubes. The wood I c/s/s are 2 yrs old ash and 4 yrs old oak and maple covered. Any of you have same thing happening to your stove as well? It's puzzling as the stove warms up the room and bring down the room humidity, heat is dissipating from the stove. I don't usually hear any sizzling noise from moisture on logs.
Baffle rust?
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Ctwoodtick
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Oxidation is accelerated by heat so this could be normal. The cracked baffle should be replaced or at least try to cement together.
Woody5506
Minister of Fire
It's normal, this happened to me on my T5 after last season (first partial season with it) and it was deemed normal by everyone on here as well as the dealer. One thing I might do after this heating season is rub the parts down with a bit of vegetable oil...We could argue the necessity of really doing that but regardless of rust being normal, I sitll hate seeing it or the thought of it getting worse.
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