Help identify this Fisher

[Mcolle]

Please help identify this Fisher stove. A neighbor wants to get it out of his garage. I have a friend who is rebuilding from the Camp fire and is looking for a decent stove.

 

[coaly]

Honey Bear with solid door option. (Metallic Brown)

Camfan on this Forum still has black and brown blowers for them.

The paint is by Forrest Paints (Stove Bright) still available and still called Metallic Brown.

Looks like it may have the solid brass intake dampers. They are extremely heavy compared to the more common aluminum.

 

[Mcolle]

Thank you Coaly. Any estimate on year? This model should not have the vent through the pedestal correct? Only through the doors? This stove is going into a 1000sq/ft home. Guessing it will be a bit overkill but hey it's free. Thank you again

 

[Mcolle]

Any idea what going rate for a blower is these days?

 

[coaly]

The Honey Bear was first designed as a glass only stove with sliders below glass on each door.
Then the intake was changed to a slider on the stove above and below doors. It gave the operator two adjustments and had to be adjusted properly to admit air above and below over glass. The later pull rod type has slider under stove center intake in the U shape open pedestal. This has a steel box on the stove floor that firebrick will go around, unlike yours that has full bottom brick. So yours should have a closed 4 sided pedestal instead of 3 sided open in the back, designed for air through doors with or without glass. The reason for the bottom intake not only for an outside air kit in mobile installations is the intake air comes in a slot across the entire stove width at bottom front for air wash over glass. It is the only intake making it primary air. I don't have the years when changes were made, but do have one of each that is not an indication of changes since my removable pedestal is the more rare single door version. The full pedestal normally has sticker on back or right side near bottom of pedestal. Others with removable pedestal are a riveted metal tag on either side, lower rear corner.

Rated for up to 1250 sf. That depends on a lot of factors. They are the smallest pedestal or glass Fisher model made. Finding one for a collection is not common. It's one of the few I don't have.

They were cheaper with nickel springs and aluminum intake dampers;
You have an optional Brass model.


Blowers sell for a lot more when they rarely come up for sale on eBay than @CamFan price. His are new in box and he oils them before shipping since they have sat in storage so long. You would have to contact him by using the "start a conversation". It blows straight up the back of stove under shield.

If you're concerned about having too much heat, you may want to only use radiation that comes off the stove. Blowers take advantage of convection heat as well. If burning smaller fires, you don't want to remove heat from the firebox. The hotter the firebox temp, the cleaner the burn. They are variable speed, and make a big difference moving heat in the home if you just need it to move heat depending on floor plan.