Need a quick and dirty fix

[SolarAndWood]

Other than advantage of the tax credit, does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix the gap at the flue collar? It is easily half an inch.

 

[begreen]

You're right. The quickest and best fix is to replace the old dragon, right?

It almost looks like the old flue collar has burned out. What is filling the gap now? Is that gasket material?

PS: I lightened up one of the shots for you.

 

[SolarAndWood]

It is that silver rope gasket. So, the gap is even bigger. Quickest and best won't be on the table until the estate is settled. That will obviously be a large steel catalytic solution ;-)

 

[ANeat]

Is it a steel piece? If it can be removed it may be possible to get it welded or even a new one made up

 

[Todd]

Furnace cement for a cheap quick temp fix.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

When I read the title I thought duct tape. Since it's on a stove I vote for furnace cement until a replacement shows up.

Matt

 

[summit]

If you want to continue throwing out good firewood burning that thing, then put some furnace cement around it and call 'er good. If you wanna get serious, you gotta get a stove made during this century, my man. maybe a BK :lol:

 

[begreen]

I'd pop-rivet a strip of sheet metal skirt on the bottom and furnace cement up the smaller gaps.

 

[SolarAndWood]

So, the gap seems a bit big for furnace cement. The consensus seems to be that a little sheet metal and some furnace cement is the quick and dirty solution until a big steel catalytic solution with a new liner and removing the 30" birch that is covering the top comes along? How heavy does the metal need to be that I pop rivet or weld?

 

[ANeat]

I would think anything equal to stove pipe thickness would suit me, If you use rivets make sure they are steel and not aluminum

 

[begreen]

I would use non-galvanized 24 gauge. Get a short length of 8" black stove pipe and cut it up.

 

[SolarAndWood]

Muchos. I'll pop rivet the patch, seal it up with cement and cut back that birch the next time I'm up there. Then maybe burn a load of pine to clean out the chimney.

 

[SolarAndWood]

Incidentally, how dangerous is it to leave it the way it is?

 

[vvvv]

sprinkle contact area, wet stove gasket embedded in stove cement, let dry, sprinkle,+ more stove cement.

 

[humpin iron]

it's not good, that stove is from the 70's