I burn a old stove when you hit about 500 600 degrees stove top thermometer do choke down the air first or the damper
damper or intake
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Is this the first time you have used this stove? Have you had any problems and if this is a new house with an old stove be sure to have the whole system checked out before using it hard. You will have to experiment but I would shut the air supply down first. You need to find out how your stove behaves. Do a couple of overnight burns with the damper open to see how it does. Later if you need to get longer burns start experimenting with the damper. I suspect it has a damper because it has trouble getting long burns. Eventually you will probably find a position for the damper that you can always use. Sometimes people have dampers just so they can slow down a runaway or chimney fire. Having one does not mean you have to use it. So there are many options. Good luck
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