I was planning on posting this when I saw this other old thread:
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Because it was old, I decided to post mine anyway. I was looking for a way to get more heat into the house. Having a larger stove top surface area seemed the way to go. I look at these as increasing the stove top area.
I made up 6 hate sinks from 3" x 3" x 3/16" angle iron a few weeks back. I cut the angle iron 4" long. I was planning on painting them, but the weather is too cold to spray paint them outside. Therefore I used aluminum foil underneath to protect the stove top surface. These rapidly get hot as the heat transfers from stove top to heat sink.
I have a blower attached to the stove, and I like the way it moves hot air toward the room. With the air blowing across these heat sinks, I think I can transfer more hot air into the room. With the fan off, they act just like a larger stove top.
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Heat Fins for wood stove surface?
This is *not* about fins that you can attach to the stove pipe. I have a Vogelzang TR007 wood stove that has a roughly 24 inch by 30 inch flat surface on the top and this seems to be the area that most of the heat radiates off of. Have you ever seen the thermal/heat transfer blocks inside your...
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I made up 6 hate sinks from 3" x 3" x 3/16" angle iron a few weeks back. I cut the angle iron 4" long. I was planning on painting them, but the weather is too cold to spray paint them outside. Therefore I used aluminum foil underneath to protect the stove top surface. These rapidly get hot as the heat transfers from stove top to heat sink.
I have a blower attached to the stove, and I like the way it moves hot air toward the room. With the air blowing across these heat sinks, I think I can transfer more hot air into the room. With the fan off, they act just like a larger stove top.
