Used Blaze King Princess - thoughts?

[Wood-row Wilson]

Have been looking for a woodstove for my pole barn and stumbled upon this princess here. Seems like a great deal, but what should I be leary of? My pole barn isn't real big, so I think this is probably a little overkill. But at what seems a low price, I could always sell later without much hurt?

(broken link removed to http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/for/4135197538.html)

Thanks!

 

[mellow]

That is a bit high for a BK 1980's stove if you ask me, I wouldn't go above $500 for it. But that is still a nice stove that will throw out some heat, how much sq footage are you looking to heat?

 

[jeff_t]

Looks like it has been dusted alot more than it has been burned. Almost too nice for a pole barn. I have no idea what to look for, but check around the cat and bypass.

If it really is pristine, $750 would be my absolute limit. See if they'll throw in the chinese checkers.

 

[Wood-row Wilson]

That is a bit high for a BK 1980's stove if you ask me, I wouldn't go above $500 for it. But that is still a nice stove that will throw out some heat, how much sq footage are you looking to heat?

I wasn't sure how old it was, so thanks for pointing that out because I wasn't sure by looking at it. My pole barn is more like an extra four car (tight) garage. Picture attached.

I had really wanted to have the time this summer/fall to install a gasser in the barn to run pex to heat the water and house; excess heat off the unit to heat the barn...but I ran out of time with other renovations to the house. Now I'm at the point that I get a wood stove just for the barn and heat the house with the pro-pain. I need to install pipe, so I want to install a woodstove that I can just move out of the way for the gassification boiler next year. Not even sure if this is possible with pipe size and configuration

So, I appreciate your feedback and am going to let this one sail. But I think I could use some help on the venting in relation to the anticipating of adding a gasser in the future. Is this even possible...?

 

[jeff_t]

That model has an 8" flue collar. I would guess that most boilers you look at would need 6".

That said, there was some discussion on the subject recently
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...-princess-an-old-8-model.112993/#post-1506849

 

[HotCoals]

Yeah..that's not a princess,it's a king.
I had that same stove for 14 years or more.
Worked ok but not a BKK cat by any means..but on high that thing will throw some wicked heat!
Holds a ton of wood!
EDIT: ..it could be a cat stove though..you should ask.

 

[BKVP]

Hotcoals is correct. Princess has 4 holes in pedestal and King's have 5.

 

[HotCoals]

Hotcoals is correct. Princess has 4 holes in pedestal and King's have 5.

Plus the 8" flue is a big clue..lol.

 

[jeff_t]

They all had 8" outlets at the time.

The probe and bypass handle should make the cat part easy.

The difference between the two was never obvious to me in a picture. The 4 vs 5 hole thing is good to know.

 

[HotCoals]

Ah good eyes. I didn't see the by-pass handle at first look.
I did know about the 4 vs 5 hole though.