Hey there!
I need a temporary and quick solution with my PE Summit door gasket problem. It's loose on the bottom and doesn't pass the dollar bill test. I can't get any silicon sealer here quickly, and nobody has any of it locally.
Is there anything I can use to stabilize this for the next week or so until I can mail order some high temperature Rutland?
Long involved story… (skip to bottom if not interested
I feared for my life last night… and my property. My 10-year-old daughter came upstairs about a half an hour after I retired to tell me that the fire in the stove was going nuts, and even with her good training, turning the stove all the way down did not reduce the intensity. I thought she might be exaggerating a bit, but I thought it be prudent to go downstairs and check.
She was absolutely right… good for her... For the first time ever, even with the air control all the way off, my stove was out of control. Mind you, I have forgotten to turn the thing down before in the distant past, and with a full load in there, I have pinned my Condor pipe thermometer, but all I needed to do was turn off the air, and it quickly got under control.
Not this time around, I had to wait there for about 45 minutes for a large quantity of wood to burn itself down within a fireball of flames and heat. It was absolutely beautiful, but very anxiety provoking. I felt fairly confident that it was a matter of the stove getting air in there underneath the door where the rope was loose and not making a proper seal, but I had to cross my fingers a bit on that one.
Thankfully, it did not go past about the 1200 mark on my thermometer, which is about 2/3 of the way to max. Even so, I could not even put my hand on the door handle because of the intense heat. The heat coming off that stove was strongly radiating for about 5 feet away, with the most intense heat I had ever felt coming off of that thing. Needless to say, my glass is now nice and clean!
But back to the point… I am hoping there is no other reason for this phenomenon to have occurred. This is the first time it has reached out of control like that upon having the loose gasket. It has been loose for about a week now, with no ill effects. Could there be anything else going on?
I did take out the baffle a few weeks ago and noticed that there was not a rear baffle gasket in there. I contacted the local PE dealer, who said they would look into getting me another one, and they never got back to me. They are an hour and a half away, which makes going in there almost impossible. Any other ways you guys can think of to get PE products?
So… That's my story. Anyone else have anything like that ever happen?
Most importantly, what can I do with this stove other than not have any major fires until I get the gasket cement?
Thoughts? Stories?
I need a temporary and quick solution with my PE Summit door gasket problem. It's loose on the bottom and doesn't pass the dollar bill test. I can't get any silicon sealer here quickly, and nobody has any of it locally.
Is there anything I can use to stabilize this for the next week or so until I can mail order some high temperature Rutland?
Long involved story… (skip to bottom if not interested
I feared for my life last night… and my property. My 10-year-old daughter came upstairs about a half an hour after I retired to tell me that the fire in the stove was going nuts, and even with her good training, turning the stove all the way down did not reduce the intensity. I thought she might be exaggerating a bit, but I thought it be prudent to go downstairs and check.
She was absolutely right… good for her... For the first time ever, even with the air control all the way off, my stove was out of control. Mind you, I have forgotten to turn the thing down before in the distant past, and with a full load in there, I have pinned my Condor pipe thermometer, but all I needed to do was turn off the air, and it quickly got under control.
Not this time around, I had to wait there for about 45 minutes for a large quantity of wood to burn itself down within a fireball of flames and heat. It was absolutely beautiful, but very anxiety provoking. I felt fairly confident that it was a matter of the stove getting air in there underneath the door where the rope was loose and not making a proper seal, but I had to cross my fingers a bit on that one.
Thankfully, it did not go past about the 1200 mark on my thermometer, which is about 2/3 of the way to max. Even so, I could not even put my hand on the door handle because of the intense heat. The heat coming off that stove was strongly radiating for about 5 feet away, with the most intense heat I had ever felt coming off of that thing. Needless to say, my glass is now nice and clean!
But back to the point… I am hoping there is no other reason for this phenomenon to have occurred. This is the first time it has reached out of control like that upon having the loose gasket. It has been loose for about a week now, with no ill effects. Could there be anything else going on?
I did take out the baffle a few weeks ago and noticed that there was not a rear baffle gasket in there. I contacted the local PE dealer, who said they would look into getting me another one, and they never got back to me. They are an hour and a half away, which makes going in there almost impossible. Any other ways you guys can think of to get PE products?
So… That's my story. Anyone else have anything like that ever happen?
Most importantly, what can I do with this stove other than not have any major fires until I get the gasket cement?
Thoughts? Stories?
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