Need help determining correct replacement part

[Eric Marchand]

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this post.

Last year I bought a house equipped with a Consolidated Dutchwest wood stove, Model: FA224ACL.
It was originally installed in 1979. Last week I had my chimney swept & stove cleaned, somehow the company lost the catalytic probe thermometer and I need to find a replacement. I've called the company that cleaned the stove, but they have been completely unhelpful.

I have the installation & maintenance manual that came with the stove, but there isn't much information regarding the probe thermometer. I've seen several for sale by Condar, but I don't know the probe length I need & there is nothing in the manual which states probe length.

Does anyone know if there is a way I can measure the correct probe length, or a place to look up exact replacement parts for an old stove? I have a stove pipe thermometer installed, but I'm hesitant to run the stove without the catalytic probe thermometer as well.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Eric

 

[ernie]

It's seems like the probe is about 1" long and shorter than the current Dutch west thermometer. we had an old short one in our store a few years ago and I noticed that feature. I am not sure V C stocks the shorter probe. I will try looking in my parts book tomorrow.
Ernie

 

[Eric Marchand]

It's seems like the probe is about 1" long and shorter than the current Dutch west thermometer. we had an old short one in our store a few years ago and I noticed that feature. I am not sure V C stocks the shorter probe. I will try looking in my parts book tomorrow.
Ernie

I would really appreciate it if you could check. I've seen 1 1/2" & 1 3/4" thermometers for sale (as well as larger). I thought it was one of the smaller ones but have no way to verify it.

Thanks again!

 

[odiez]

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this post.

Last year I bought a house equipped with a Consolidated Dutchwest wood stove, Model: FA224ACL.
It was originally installed in 1979. Last week I had my chimney swept & stove cleaned, somehow the company lost the catalytic probe thermometer and I need to find a replacement. I've called the company that cleaned the stove, but they have been completely unhelpful.

I have the installation & maintenance manual that came with the stove, but there isn't much information regarding the probe thermometer. I've seen several for sale by Condar, but I don't know the probe length I need & there is nothing in the manual which states probe length.

Does anyone know if there is a way I can measure the correct probe length, or a place to look up exact replacement parts for an old stove? I have a stove pipe thermometer installed, but I'm hesitant to run the stove without the catalytic probe thermometer as well.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Eric

If you're still looking for a replacement you can get one here. (broken link removed to http://www.blackswanhome.com/fa224-ccl.html) This is the best place I've seen for Consolidated Dutchwest parts. I have a 264CCL, and after replacing the catalytic converter once I decided to go without one after the second one went bad. I ran just as well without one.

 

[weatherguy]

Couldn't you just cut a longer one if you can't find one?