As long as he burns it correctly that liner should work ok for that insert but if it was me I would still want a heavier one.
I have seen them fail with out having multiple fires a year. But most of those were on old stoves without a baffle which is why I said for that stove it would work.
It is and we will not install a light wall liner on a wood stove. But many do. It will not last as long at all but with a modern stove being operated correctly it should hold up pretty well. I cant tell you one way or another. All I can do is tell you I see way more light wall liners failed than heavy wall ones.
Yeah we see many starting to fail around 18 to 20 years Like I said they will last quite a while but not as long as heavy wall.
We have light wall liners that are approaching 20 years and have no issues at all.
Like I said that is the age we are seeing them starting to fail. Other than ones that were abused but if you abuse them you can destroy any liner no matter what it is.
After 20 years these shown no signs of giving up. I've only seen one lightnwall liner crap out. I know you have seen a lot of them, but down here we just don't see them fail. Coal maybe?
No not coal. A light wall liner with coal in it wont last 5 years. I don't enter coal into it even heavywall with coal you might get 15 years and rigid 20 or so if it stays together after the fasteners fail. We see I would say 6 or 7 failed liners a year.
And I am not telling him one way or another just telling him what we see and what we do. He has to decide on his own.
For $100 I might too, I don't know. I would certainly give it some serious thought at that price
There is no way for us to know that just from pics. But if it is stainless and non magnetic it should be fine. The only stainless that isn't very good for wood is the stuff made for gas which I ant remember the alloy right now. But it is easy to recognize because it is magnetic.
