I bought a stove today. I bought a US stove country hearth 2000. at $600 the price was right and tractor supply is only 20 minutes away. my neighbor who does construction has a job he had to finish today. I went over to see if I could use his truck. he told me the job he was working on was only 5 minutes from TSC and I could go with him and pick up a stove. I will say I am not disappointed, what a nice unit for $600, I don't understand why people buy lopi, Harman, and Avalon for $3,000 when you can have one of these or an Englander for $6-700. I did not like my 5510 but this unit seems to be decent. there is a larger diifferencee between a Harman pellet stove and a cheaper unit, with wood stoves the differences are allot less noticeable I noticed that it had good reviews on this site so I decided to go with it. there was also another customer at TSC that said he has had one for 12 years and he's extremely pleased with it, being the only repair he has done in 12 years is new firebrick. I had a smaller fire and it still put out fantasic heat. I wanted to keep the temps down as per manual, says to avoid running it hard until paint has cured. I hope to have this great unit 20 years or longer.
with an EPA stove what should I set the draft control at? I had it cracked open a little to keep the heat in the stove but let the smoke out, is that correct?
as far as the 1261 goes it should be removed from the market as per being a very unsafe unit. running a modern stove I realize just how much safer they have become. the 1261 is impossible to control, draws flame up into the black pipe, makes the chimney much hotter, eats firewood like there is no tomorrow. how old is that design anyways? its terribly unsafe. im going to try to sell it but I probably lost my money on that piece of junk ($60 if I cant get it back oh well, lessons learned). I ran that modern stove and the chimney was warm to the touch, not hot. I never got it up to glowing temps with that 1261, I would never let it get that hot, but it was hotter then I would have liked it to be. I would rate this stove as an old, outdated, unsafe piece of junk. belongs in a museum then on the store shelves. the sad part is people still buy these things new. I noticed that the modern stove has fire proof material on the top of the firebox preventing flames from being sucked into the black pipe the 1261 has nothing to prevent this.
with an EPA stove what should I set the draft control at? I had it cracked open a little to keep the heat in the stove but let the smoke out, is that correct?
as far as the 1261 goes it should be removed from the market as per being a very unsafe unit. running a modern stove I realize just how much safer they have become. the 1261 is impossible to control, draws flame up into the black pipe, makes the chimney much hotter, eats firewood like there is no tomorrow. how old is that design anyways? its terribly unsafe. im going to try to sell it but I probably lost my money on that piece of junk ($60 if I cant get it back oh well, lessons learned). I ran that modern stove and the chimney was warm to the touch, not hot. I never got it up to glowing temps with that 1261, I would never let it get that hot, but it was hotter then I would have liked it to be. I would rate this stove as an old, outdated, unsafe piece of junk. belongs in a museum then on the store shelves. the sad part is people still buy these things new. I noticed that the modern stove has fire proof material on the top of the firebox preventing flames from being sucked into the black pipe the 1261 has nothing to prevent this.
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