It's Out of Warranty, So Why Not Confess

[BrotherBart]

Loaded a max load for the cold night. Went through my gentle "don't need no secondary light show" ramp up from 300 for the 30-NC. Either me or the beer, don't know which, got impatient after fifteen or twenty minutes and reversed my staged primary close down and pulled it back out some. At just the wrong moment. Sucker took off on a secondary blast ya would not believe. And this is one with the zipper air totally removed. Just rode it out.

The long and short of it is that Mike Holton was right when he told me down at the plant that "It won't split down the middle BB." At least I now know it won't at 924 degrees on the top plate. Really glad they put that short step top bend in the top plate for rigidity.

I don't have the guts to go outside and see if the chimney cap is blown off in the woods somewhere. :red:

 

[crackshot]

SICK! ..... at least its ok!

 

[Lighting Up]

WOW! 900 degrees...I think my couch would melt. Glad all is well...caps are cheep.
md

 

[cmonSTART]

Wow That thing went into orbit!

 

[SlyFerret]

Gotta love that 30!!

We're going down to -1 tonight. Just reloaded, but didn't pack it full. I'm thinking about letting myself just fall asleep on the couch. I'll just throw a few more splits on the fire when I wake up and drag myself to bed at about 3:00am.

I love winter!!

-SF

 

[BrotherBart]

Wow That thing went into orbit!

Cold night. Tall stack. Dry wood. Dumbass at the controls.

Cruising nicely at 650 now. New underwear in place.

 

[BrowningBAR]

Loaded a max load for the cold night. Went through my gentle "don't need no secondary light show" ramp up from 300 for the 30-NC. Either me or the beer, don't know which, got impatient after fifteen or twenty minutes and reversed my staged primary close down and pulled it back out some. At just the wrong moment. Sucker took off on a secondary blast ya would not believe. And this is one with the zipper air totally removed. Just rode it out.

The long and short of it is that Mike Holton was right when he told me down at the plant that "It won't split down the middle BB." At least I now know it won't at 924 degrees on the top plate. Really glad they put that short step top bend in the top plate for rigidity.

I don't have the guts to go outside and see if the chimney cap is blown off in the woods somewhere. :red:

I've heard the 30 doesn't heat worth a damn. I've seen the YouTube video.

 

[BrotherBart]

I've heard the 30 doesn't heat worth a damn. I've seen the YouTube video.

Please provide scientifically reproducible proof. Which includes two lab rats, two really small wood stoves and a whole lot of really tiny wood splits. So Battenkiller will believe it. :lol:

 

[leeave96]

Wow That thing went into orbit!

Cold night. Tall stack. Dry wood. Dumbass at the controls.

Cruising nicely at 650 now. New underwear in place.

You're going to have to dump that NC-30 and get something you can control - like a Woodstock cat stove.....

Bill

 

[BrotherBart]

You're going to have to dump that NC-30 and get something you can control - like a Woodstock cat stove.....

Bill

I appreciate the suggestion. But I am partial to being warm in winter. :coolsmirk: In fact a five year old Palladian was advertised here last week for four hundred bucks. Didn't even go look.

 

[wkpoor]

Loaded a max load for the cold night. Went through my gentle "don't need no secondary light show" ramp up from 300 for the 30-NC. Either me or the beer, don't know which, got impatient after fifteen or twenty minutes and reversed my staged primary close down and pulled it back out some. At just the wrong moment. Sucker took off on a secondary blast ya would not believe. And this is one with the zipper air totally removed. Just rode it out.

The long and short of it is that Mike Holton was right when he told me down at the plant that "It won't split down the middle BB." At least I now know it won't at 924 degrees on the top plate. Really glad they put that short step top bend in the top plate for rigidity.

I don't have the guts to go outside and see if the chimney cap is blown off in the woods somewhere. :red:

I've been there a bunch of times in the 2 weeks with the Mag. Saw 900 just yesterday. Thats why I posted about top temps. I'm not scared anymore. I figure if it didn't get red what the heck. In fact I've gotten real comfortable with 800 now. Reload w/4 splits, damper fully closed, and about 400 degrees the secondaries kick in like a shuttle lunch and about 2 minutes later I'm rockin at 800+. After the weather warms up a bit I'm going to modify the damper plate to allow full shut down.

 

[Battenkiller]

I've heard the 30 doesn't heat worth a damn. I've seen the YouTube video.

Please provide scientifically reproducible proof. Which includes two lab rats, two really small wood stoves and a whole lot of really tiny wood splits. So Battenkiller will believe it. :lol:

What??? And suspend my disbelief in the superiority of steel stoves? I can disregard solid scientific evidence as well as anybody on this board.


C'mon now, little Vig... get on up there for Daddy... that's right 750º... 800º... 850º..............


Dang! She's topped out. The VC manual was right. No risk of overfire even with a full load and the draft wide open. :cheese:

 

[pen]

ha! sissy ;-P

 

[Valhalla]

Asleep at the switch, or... way too much beer!

 

[pen]

everyone here makes it sound as though there is a problem :coolsmile: All seems right to me.

pen

 

[BrowningBAR]

I've heard the 30 doesn't heat worth a damn. I've seen the YouTube video.

Please provide scientifically reproducible proof. Which includes two lab rats, two really small wood stoves and a whole lot of really tiny wood splits. So Battenkiller will believe it. :lol:

What??? And suspend my disbelief in the superiority of steel stoves? I can disregard solid scientific evidence as well as anybody on this board.


C'mon now, little Vig... get on up there for Daddy... that's right 750º... 800º... 850º..............


Dang! She's topped out. The VC manual was right. No risk of overfire even with a full load and the draft wide open. :cheese:

Mines at 300. Time to reload. The room is down to 76! *gasp*

 

[LLigetfa]

Small numbers don't mean anything to me since I don't own a temperature guage. All I know is cherry red is between 1400 and 1600 degrees. When she gets up into orange (1800 - 2000) I get worried.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Wow That thing went into orbit!

Cold night. Tall stack. Dry wood. Dumbass at the controls.

Cruising nicely at 650 now. New underwear in place.

I knew there was an odd smell in the air last night. Now it is scary not knowing if it was from the stove or something else!

 

[begreen]

I suspect that we are going to get several posts on the burning value of soiled underwear with this cold snap. Sounds like a 3 beer night for sure.

Did you turn out the lights and observe the glow? How did the paint stand up? If it did well that's a good testimony for Stove Brite.

 

[Milton Findley]

I am glad that my stove is only about half as exciting, and about half that hot, as my sphincters are only about half as tight as they used to be.

 

[Monkey Wrench]

In my mind after 924 comes, Red Cross, Motel 6 and an insurance claim!!

Good thing it was Lite beer. Try it next time with the regular stuff and you'll be posting from your neighbors computer.

 

[BrotherBart]

How did the paint stand up? If it did well that's a good testimony for Stove Brite.

Paint looking fine. I think it helped that I did one of the outside burn-ins before painting it to burn off the oils. Then one after coat three and after coat five before lugging it inside.

A stove getting hot isn't the area of concern. It is not knowing if it is gonna peak that gets a little tense. I just opened the primary enough to slow down the secondary blast and set down and let it work it out. That primary air is a hell of a lot cooler at that point than the stuff coming out of the secondary manifold. Had it not settled down I would have opened the door to blow those excess gases the hell up the flue before they could burn. Let my neighbors deal with'em and clean the cap screen.

 

[Mrs. Krabappel]

I'm still under warranty, so I can't go to confession just yet.

Bless me Father for I have sinned.......

 

[northwinds]

I've got a lifetime warranty, so I'm not talkin'.

I've never had the stove glow, but there was one time...I was going through the
stages of closing off the primary air. The stack temp just kept on rising. Turns
out I forgot to turn off the start-up air, which was wide open. Stove temp wasn't
all that bad, but the stack temp was way up there. The chimney was very, very
clean when I went up for a mid-season cleaning.

 

[Todd]

You're going to have to dump that NC-30 and get something you can control - like a Woodstock cat stove.....

Bill

I appreciate the suggestion. But I am partial to being warm in winter. :coolsmirk: In fact a five year old Palladian was advertised here last week for four hundred bucks. Didn't even go look.

If that were a Blaze King he would of jumped all over it. I think he's subconsciously trying to wreck that 30 so he has an excuse for a new stove.