BKK Paint Peel

[jrprusak]

Friend with BBK had his paint peel off various areas on stove over 4 months... Store took it back and had it repainted.

After reinstalling and a few days of fire, the paint seems ok except directly above the CAT unit. The steel has discolored in the CAT area. Obviously from the higher temp of the CAT… Is this normal?? Seems like a design flaw…

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Doesn't sound normal to me John. I hope some owners of this stove chime in here.

 

[fdegree]

I can't say for certain just how common this may be. Although, if the surface is prepared properly and painted properly with the correct high temp paint, I would think this this would be rare...unless he is letting the cat temp get too high too often.

As for my experience, I have only been a wood burner for a couple of weeks, so take this for whatever it is worth. I repainted my King as soon as I received it, over the summer. I had a couple of small areas around the pipe connection, blister during my burn-in fires. I prepped that area again and repainted it...so far so good.

 

[kgrant]

I've had my BK King since 2003 and havn't had any paint peeling or discoloration above the cat.

The only paint issues I've had have been caused by me. I used oven cleaner on the glass once, some dripped and stripped the paint. And being lazy and not fixing the water leaking around the chimney one summer, rusted the top of the stove.

 

[learnin to burn]

Sounds like what happens when you don't cure the paint properly. Did he do a series of 3 or 4 break in fires after reinstalling the stove or just start using it?

 

[HotCoals]

Mines two weeks old and WAS doing fine till I was using the little broom to clean up around the hearth and noticed a bunch of dust or whatever on top of the stove near the cat.
So I took the little broom and swept it off...do not do this!
It took a layer of paint right off it,maybe half the size of a dollar bill.

After two weeks of burning the black was not shiny as when I installed it..started looking like flat black..but it still looked good till I did a stupid thing.

 

[begreen]

BK design flaw! Heavens no! Could be a bad run or bad prep. Find out what type paint they use before attempting repainting. All stove paints are not compatible.

 

[jrprusak]

BK design flaw! Heavens no! Could be a bad run or bad prep. Find out what type paint they use before attempting repainting. All stove paints are not compatible.

Everybody I know that has a stove, (I’m talking 100's of stoves), new, old, steel, cast iron whatever, has never had a paint problem... Everyone has their own methods on how they use them... never seen a paint problem on a one of them,,,

This has to be a manufacture flaw of either not prepping the steel properly or using a poor paint product.

I never have painted my stoves, I use a black stove paste which gives the stove a nice look, and cannot peel...

 

[jrprusak]

Interesting, the friend of mine that I mention at the beginning of the topic that had the paint peel off his BKK, the store just called him and stated that they had 3 other people with the paint peeling off their BK's also that were sold around the same time...

So this is a manufacture flaw...

 

[jrprusak]

I would be interested if there are more new Blaze Kings out there that had similar paint peel problems.

 

[micktune]

its totaly good and nice forum thanks