Learned a good lesson today after ignoring some good advice from the members of hearth.com. I sealed my block-off plate with regular RTV silicone and today that
$h*T caught fire when I got the stove up to 800* for the first time. This is a qoute from BrotherBart from my first thread on this site "Now about that silicone you sealed the liner with at the block-off plate. Keep an eye on it. The first time that liner gets up to eight hundred degrees on startup with a good load the silicone is going to vaporize. After the stink dies down, re-seal that spot with furnace cement. It won’t crap out until around 2,000 degrees. Using silicone to seal around /the edge of the plate was fine. That part won’t get that hot but the liner darn sure will". When the stove thermometer hit 800* the fireplace cavity was glowing bright orange and the stove room started to get smokey, had to get the darn fire extinguisher to put the flames out. What's the moral to this story?....Listen to the old heads around here. ;-)
$h*T caught fire when I got the stove up to 800* for the first time. This is a qoute from BrotherBart from my first thread on this site "Now about that silicone you sealed the liner with at the block-off plate. Keep an eye on it. The first time that liner gets up to eight hundred degrees on startup with a good load the silicone is going to vaporize. After the stink dies down, re-seal that spot with furnace cement. It won’t crap out until around 2,000 degrees. Using silicone to seal around /the edge of the plate was fine. That part won’t get that hot but the liner darn sure will". When the stove thermometer hit 800* the fireplace cavity was glowing bright orange and the stove room started to get smokey, had to get the darn fire extinguisher to put the flames out. What's the moral to this story?....Listen to the old heads around here. ;-)