IS ANYONE ELSE HAVING SEDORE PROBLEMS? No one EVER complains about the Sedore, so I don't know if I am alone in this, or if no one is saying anything. I bought mine around 2013, and installed it 2014. I LOVE it, but it has had some issues that the manufacturer hasn't addressed.
1) To start with, we can't get the gasket to stay on. We initially bought the stove with a cooking lid. I used Bruce's (the owner of the company) specific silicone gasket glue, and it still falls off the back edge of the lid, usually within 3 weeks. I've prepped and reprepped the lid, grinded it smooth-clean, tried different ways of attaching it with varying amounts of silicone glue, used different glues. It won't stay on. I bought a new lid, the diamond plate lid, thinking maybe the dents in ours were causing the problem, but it happened with the new lid too. I think Bruce got tired of hearing from me about this.
I brought the first (dented, cooking) lid to a metal fabrication friend to straighten it out. He said to me, "This stove must get way too hot in the back, I'm not surprised the gasket won't stay on". The same thing happened with the gasket on the corrected lid.
2) I started the season this year with the stove, and it worked fine at first, but then started running oddly, like it could not get enough air. We opened it up and cleaned it out completely, and we found quite a mess inside the stove, something we'd not seen before. The back wall of the fire box, which seemed to be made of a thick tin layer, was completely eroded near the bottom, and the lower grate that attached to it had basically come loose from the damaged back wall. I posted a pic below , I wish I'd taken a pic of how much of the back wall was completely eroded once the lower plate was removed. It was frightening. The floor and the outer walls were solid, but the back wall of the firebox was destroyed. We have only been using this stove 3 years, and we've never burned anything in it except wood and occasionally some used cooking oil. I tried to contact Sedore about this, and I sent this picture, but I did not hear back.
We brought the entire stove to our metal fabrication friend, who repaired it beautifully for a very reasonable price, $200. If there is anyone out there interested to see his repair, please reply and I will post pics & details. He thinks his repairs might help the gasket issue, but if not, he's going to make another modification for us that should protect the back of lid from some of the heat.
SEDORE OWNERS, INSPECT YOUR FIREBOX and please post your Sedore issues, I CAN'T be the only one. See my firebox pic.
1) To start with, we can't get the gasket to stay on. We initially bought the stove with a cooking lid. I used Bruce's (the owner of the company) specific silicone gasket glue, and it still falls off the back edge of the lid, usually within 3 weeks. I've prepped and reprepped the lid, grinded it smooth-clean, tried different ways of attaching it with varying amounts of silicone glue, used different glues. It won't stay on. I bought a new lid, the diamond plate lid, thinking maybe the dents in ours were causing the problem, but it happened with the new lid too. I think Bruce got tired of hearing from me about this.
I brought the first (dented, cooking) lid to a metal fabrication friend to straighten it out. He said to me, "This stove must get way too hot in the back, I'm not surprised the gasket won't stay on". The same thing happened with the gasket on the corrected lid.
2) I started the season this year with the stove, and it worked fine at first, but then started running oddly, like it could not get enough air. We opened it up and cleaned it out completely, and we found quite a mess inside the stove, something we'd not seen before. The back wall of the fire box, which seemed to be made of a thick tin layer, was completely eroded near the bottom, and the lower grate that attached to it had basically come loose from the damaged back wall. I posted a pic below , I wish I'd taken a pic of how much of the back wall was completely eroded once the lower plate was removed. It was frightening. The floor and the outer walls were solid, but the back wall of the firebox was destroyed. We have only been using this stove 3 years, and we've never burned anything in it except wood and occasionally some used cooking oil. I tried to contact Sedore about this, and I sent this picture, but I did not hear back.
We brought the entire stove to our metal fabrication friend, who repaired it beautifully for a very reasonable price, $200. If there is anyone out there interested to see his repair, please reply and I will post pics & details. He thinks his repairs might help the gasket issue, but if not, he's going to make another modification for us that should protect the back of lid from some of the heat.
SEDORE OWNERS, INSPECT YOUR FIREBOX and please post your Sedore issues, I CAN'T be the only one. See my firebox pic.
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