Hinges on my castine

[Kevin Dolan]

I have one hinge bolt on my Jotul castine f400 that seems to be rising out of its hinge. Been burning three years and it seems to be about the same rise out of the hinge as last year. I have tried to tap it down when stove is cold but wont budge. Looked at manual and cant figure if it is threaded. Anyone see this before or is it just a strange thing with my stove. It is working perfectly but wondering if I may have a problem down the road.
Thanks for any info.
Kevin

 

[RSNovi]

On my F500 the whole door just lifts off and the hinge pin looks the same as yours.

 

[Kevin Dolan]

On my F500 the whole door just lifts off and the hinge pin looks the same as yours.

do your pins move up and down on the hinge or stay put most of the time?

 

[embers aplenty]

I have one hinge bolt on my Jotul castine f400 that seems to be rising out of its hinge. Been burning three years and it seems to be about the same rise out of the hinge as last year. I have tried to tap it down when stove is cold but wont budge. Looked at manual and cant figure if it is threaded. Anyone see this before or is it just a strange thing with my stove. It is working perfectly but wondering if I may have a problem down the road.
Thanks for any info.
Kevin

Not sure about a Castine but if it is made like most are, just swing your door out and work it back and forth as you lift the whole door right off the hinges. Set it down on some wood or something that won't skin it up and carefully remove the pins. If one is stuck, use a flat end round punch a bit smaller then the hinge hole or a wooden dowel of some kind will work if you have one, tapping very lightly with a small hammer should remove it. Spray some PB Blaster or penetrating oil on it if it's stuck badly before removal.

Clean the pins off very gently and lightly with a wire brush on a bench grinder or with a scotchbrite pad or steel wool, etc.. Use the scotch brite pad to lightly clean the hinge mating surfaces. You can clean the hinge holes with a small pistol or rifle brush or I have used a small piece of fine grit metal sand paper, tightly rolled up. It won't need much cleaning at all, so keep it minimal. Your just cleaning the grit out of the hole, not removing a bunch of metal.

Then apply anti seize compound to the hinge pins and hinge mating surfces and slide the door and pins back on. Wipe off the access. Also, while your at it, take your door handle apart and clean the working surface and put antisieze on it if possible. It all should work like butta and maybe your hinge pin will even stay down now.

The antisieze might smell a little bit the first night. Just take an aspirin ahead of time and you should be fine. Do this at the beginning of every season and it will make you smile every time you open the door.

 

[RSNovi]

I just noticed this on my Jotul C350. I have noticed it happen on my F500 as well. Just work it back in place.

 

[begreen]

This didn't happen on our Casting, but our F3CB hinge pin would creep up every few week too. I would just tap it down, but I think you could clean out the hinge pin holes on the door and body with a drill bit a hair larger and that should fix it. Or try lubricating the pin with graphite powder.