Grandpa III rebuild, ghastly plasma cutting !

[windage]

finally got around to cutting the crippled back out of the "franken-stove" see this thread;

https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/friends-shouldnt-let-friends-burn-ashleys.123703/#post-1658905

this stove had been abused by burning coal without firebrick had roasted the back plate, leaving it cracked and buckled. So my buddy cut it out and since it's opened up, we are installing a baffle plate set on angle iron.

 

[valley ranch]

Well, looks like you have something going, can't tell what it is yet. I look foreward to seeing it when you've completed it.

Richard

 

[SONOCATIVO]

Looks like it had a big crack in the center.

 

[windage]

all done, welded a new sheet back on, re used the flue ring and installed baffle sheet, setting loose on angle iron. New bricks along with a few new brick clips. New door latch wedge, replaced nut in the damper cap and new bolt. Drilled out one door and stepped up the hinge pin size to tighten up the slack. STove got installed without finished pics...another member helped ID this "franken-stove" to around 1977..I found it on Craigslist about 3 hours away. When I got there to pick it up, I found that it had more issues; loose door on hinge, missing door latch wedge, stripped damper cap, rear sheet burned through from burning coal with missing firebrick...negotiated a lower price and brought it home.

 

[windage]

Looks like it had a big crack in the center.

yes, burnt right through...a previous owner allowed the firebrick to crumble away, then burned local coal in it...

 

[bholler]

i hope the lower price was free

 

[Corey]

Looks like good work so far. You should throw some secondary air channels in that sucker while you have it all apart.

 

[valley ranch]

That sounds like a good idea.