OK full disclosure, I am running an old school airtight stove atm and have not yet installed my ws-ts-1500 from woodpro. I bought it used for $200 and the guy claimed it was new and had only been lit once. I drove an hour to get it to find out I believe he hit the stove with his car while it was in the drive. It's scratched up on a corner, a few broken bricks and dislodged, and most notably the ceramic fiber board is cracked (it's two pieces but one is broken in 3 pieces).
I've never run one of these new stoves (insurance agent is whining about discoloration on my triple wall pipe, wood is as dry as it gets, I run creosote remover religiously). I'm impressed with the stove design as unlike most there's a layer of firebrick held up on the ceiling above the tubes, fiber board on top of the brick, then a hinged steel baffle that hangs down. It is my limited understanding that the fiber board traps heat and gasses for secondary combustion off the tubes. That said, with my stove having firebrick on the roof will my broken fiber board be an issue? I've read some old posts with people asking if a steel plate would work, it was decided that you probably don't want to stress and superheat your tubes but I have bricks against mine (and there's a 1/4in gap). Also considering fiber wool on top of the brick as it's cheaper but would still prefer to do nothing or cut steel plate.
Thanks in advance
http://downloads.hearthnhome.com/serviceParts/WoodPro WS-TS-1500 Service Parts List.pdf
I've never run one of these new stoves (insurance agent is whining about discoloration on my triple wall pipe, wood is as dry as it gets, I run creosote remover religiously). I'm impressed with the stove design as unlike most there's a layer of firebrick held up on the ceiling above the tubes, fiber board on top of the brick, then a hinged steel baffle that hangs down. It is my limited understanding that the fiber board traps heat and gasses for secondary combustion off the tubes. That said, with my stove having firebrick on the roof will my broken fiber board be an issue? I've read some old posts with people asking if a steel plate would work, it was decided that you probably don't want to stress and superheat your tubes but I have bricks against mine (and there's a 1/4in gap). Also considering fiber wool on top of the brick as it's cheaper but would still prefer to do nothing or cut steel plate.
Thanks in advance
http://downloads.hearthnhome.com/serviceParts/WoodPro WS-TS-1500 Service Parts List.pdf