Howdy - After a lot of great advice from folks on this forum, we decided to scrap the idea of moving our 30-year old Lopi M530 across from the kitchen to the living room, and we sprung for a new Lopi Liberty, which now sits proudly atop a beautifully constructed new brick hearth. We've been burning in it for a couple of months now (primary source of heat for our home), and we're quite pleased with it. The only groan I've got is that the air control (not the bypass on the right side for startup, but the normal operating air control that sticks straight out from the bottom of the stove front) is very "sticky" and difficult to operate, especially with any sort of precision. Any ideas of what I can do to free this thing up a bit and make it a more smoothly operating control? Thanks (for a lot of things)! Rick Booth, Bend Oregon