Stinking black pipe

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JRP3

Feeling the Heat
Hearth Supporter
Sep 17, 2007
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Just fired up the stove with some new black elbows and pipe sections and it smells like burning plastic! The pipe, mostly the elbows, started smoking and stinking. I shut down the fire to stop it. Is this normal with new pipe? I did notice when I bought the elbows there was some oil leaking out of the joints and I tried to wipe off as much as I could, maybe that's where it's coming from.
 
Yes normal, it is the oil burning and the paint curing.
 
Fire it up, open some windows a bit if you need to, get it hot and keep it hot and let it cure...smell will be gone after a couple of good hot burns. Rick
 
Make sure if there are plastic labels on the pipe (Simpson uses them), that they have been removed first.
 
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