I was looking at the outside air intake on this stove and it's a three inch stub coming out of the back of the stove. It only leads in to the ash pan area located in the pedestal of the stove. With the pan out, looking up at the bottom of the stove the only place for air to come in is the ash clean out on the bottom of the stove and it is plugged when the stove is burning. How in the world does outside air reach the firebox? It's like it's a faux outside air port. I even hooked up a draft inducer blower to the port and it made absolutely no difference to the flame inside. Turning on and off there is no effect on flame.