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.
Stinking black pipe
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Make sure if there are plastic labels on the pipe (Simpson uses them), that they have been removed first.
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