Please let me know what your external pipe temps are 3ft up from your stove exhaust. Thanks

[53flyer]

Could you please tell me how high the temps are (high and average) 3ft up on the exterior of your single ply liners/pipes? I'm expecting the temps to be below 400deg but am very interested in the actual results.

Thanks everyone.

 

[Beowulf]

My thermometer is screwed to the pipe at about 18" above a Quadra Fire 3000. Typically I see temps run up to about 700 °F when I have things running wide open in the beginning of the burn cycle. I close down the primary air and they drop to about 400 °F with the secondary at somewhere near half and the front of the stove above the door reading 400-500 °F. When I close the secondary to about 7/8 shut for an extended burn of coals, the pipe temp drops to 200-300°F.

Don't know if I'm an upcoming poster boy for a chimney fire with these temps or not, but the pipe and glass stay pretty clean.

It will be interesting to see what other input you get.

 

[53flyer]

Thanks Beowulf,
Yea I can't wait to see a bunch of results. I'm hoping to get some temps about 36in up but when the thermometer is screwed in that's that. Hey, being screwed in means your actually measuring the temp "inside the pipe" instead of the outside temp of the pipe doesn't it? If so, I'd think the outside pipe temp was only 400-500 when the inside temp was 700 but that's just a guess.

Anyone else have some temps to share?

 

[VCBurner]

My temp is 150 right now, I just stocked the fire box on to a healthy bed of coals. I've got it on overnight mode right now, with the primary air almost completely shut. So, it won't go past 250-300 untill I get up in the morning and fire it up again. I usually let it get up to 600 first thing in the morning in order to heat things up and dry any creosote created from the overnight burn. I clened the chymney and connectors a couple of weeks ago and had very little build up to spite the pine I've been burning mixed with hard wood during daytime hours. I also use Rutland's Kwik-Shot Soot Stopper once a week in both stoves.

 

[VCBurner]

Oh, the exterior thermometer is about 20" above the rear exhaust of the stove.

 

[VCBurner]

My thermometer is screwed to the pipe at about 18" above a Quadra Fire 3000. Typically I see temps run up to about 700 °F when I have things running wide open in the beginning of the burn cycle. I close down the primary air and they drop to about 400 °F with the secondary at somewhere near half and the front of the stove above the door reading 400-500 °F. When I close the secondary to about 7/8 shut for an extended burn of coals, the pipe temp drops to 200-300°F.

Don't know if I'm an upcoming poster boy for a chimney fire with these temps or not, but the pipe and glass stay pretty clean.

It will be interesting to see what other input you get.

"Beowulf, how do you like the 455 Rancher? I went to sears to get a chain sharpening file today and drewelled at it for about five minutes. I'm thinking of buying one. Right now I have a little toy borrewed 18" Craftsman 40cc."

 

[hareball]

I'm at 18" on single wall with a wide open system. During the day if it's mild I like to run around 350 °F .
Early evening I like to take it up to 550-600 for 10-15 mins then drop back to 400 and hold there. I can always raise up the thermometer for a day and give you some results.

 

[Beowulf]

"Beowulf, how do you like the 455 Rancher? I went to sears to get a chain sharpening file today and drewelled at it for about five minutes. I'm thinking of buying one. Right now I have a little toy borrewed 18" Craftsman 40cc."[/quote]

I'm very happy with it. I had a project going last summer where I needed a saw kind of fast and my Stihl was having one of its moods. I did not do the research that I really should have done, but have had such good experiences with other Husky saws that I pulled the trigger on the 455 Rancher.

No regrets. Starts great, cuts reasonably fast with a 20" bar. Overall a good quality saw for personal use in a non-professional woodcutter environment. I cut 24" logs with it, rail road ties, what ever. At 13.5 lbs. loaded with fuel, it can be a little bit of a workout, but it is a very capable saw. Also reasonably quiet when compared to other saws of the same displacement.

I ditched the safety chain (anti-kickback) that comes with it and put on a full chisel chain. The cutting speed improved dramatically. It is not an overly powerful saw at 3.5 hp, but it pulls a 20" bar pretty well.

There are lots of reviews on Amazon on it, I think the bad ones may be from folks that are not too sure what to expect from a consumer level chainsaw. I don't think you would be disappointed, if the weight is ok for you.

If you get it and need the shop manual and illustrated parts list, PM me.

Cheers,

B

 

[VCBurner]

"Beowulf, how do you like the 455 Rancher? I went to sears to get a chain sharpening file today and drewelled at it for about five minutes. I'm thinking of buying one. Right now I have a little toy borrewed 18" Craftsman 40cc."

I'm very happy with it. I had a project going last summer where I needed a saw kind of fast and my Stihl was having one of its moods. I did not do the research that I really should have done, but have had such good experiences with other Husky saws that I pulled the trigger on the 455 Rancher.

No regrets. Starts great, cuts reasonably fast with a 20" bar. Overall a good quality saw for personal use in a non-professional woodcutter environment. I cut 24" logs with it, rail road ties, what ever. At 13.5 lbs. loaded with fuel, it can be a little bit of a workout, but it is a very capable saw. Also reasonably quiet when compared to other saws of the same displacement.

I ditched the safety chain (anti-kickback) that comes with it and put on a full chisel chain. The cutting speed improved dramatically. It is not an overly powerful saw at 3.5 hp, but it pulls a 20" bar pretty well.

There are lots of reviews on Amazon on it, I think the bad ones may be from folks that are not too sure what to expect from a consumer level chainsaw. I don't think you would be disappointed, if the weight is ok for you.

If you get it and need the shop manual and illustrated parts list, PM me.

Cheers,

B[/quote]

"Thanks Beowulf,
I'm new to this wood cutting/burning so it's all a learning experience for me. I've done a little bit of tree cutting with a couple Husky's both had 18" blades. They felt better than the Craftsman I've been using the past couple of days, ugh! They also had the more professional like chains with less anti kick back. I don't think I'll mind the weight too much at least until I have to use it for a whole day. Well, take care brother and burn on!"

 

[BrotherBart]

How the heck is somebody supposed to get a liner temp three feet up in the chimney?

 

[WidowMaker]

With my LT300 Infared Thermometer, Stove top 700, single wall pipe 325...

 

[Todd]

My external pipe temps 20" up cruise at 250-300. I use a Condar mag thermometer and the directions state it is calibrated to read temps 12" above stove exhaust collar.

 

[carinya]

How the heck is somebody supposed to get a liner temp three feet up in the chimney?

BB, having read all the creative things you get up to, I figure this would be a piece of cake for an old hand such as yourself

I suppose you could start with a masonry drill...... :lol:

 

[53flyer]

I'm at 18" on single wall with a wide open system. During the day if it's mild I like to run around 350 °F. Early evening I like to take it up to 550-600 for 10-15 mins then drop back to 400 and hold there. I can always raise up the thermometer for a day and give you some results.

Hareball- Yes, if you get a chance it would be interesting to hear about your results if you raised it for a day. Maybe after you got it to 550-600 you could compare what the temp was 12-18" higher up? I'm really curious if it would be a 100-150 deg difference or not.

How the heck is somebody supposed to get a liner temp three feet up in the chimney?

Sorry, I figured it would be pretty well understood that to get those readings it would most likely need to be a freestanding stove (or a hearth mount with 18-24" of pipe going back into an open fireplace space before turning up (another 12-18") to go out the flue). I edited the original post to hopefully make it more clear; thanks for the heads up irt the possible confusion.