[TheForge] OT Wood Stove for Shop heat

[Bruce Freeman]

At one time you could purchase this converter (to fit
in a flue pipe) for any stove.  I don't know about
now.
Bruce
NJ
--- Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> > There was an "Alaskan" version of those that used
> 2 horizontal oil 
> > barrels, one over the other. There was an air gate
> in the upper one and 
> > it was supposed to benefit from secondary
> combustion of the smoke in the 
> > upper chamber.
> 
> 	I wonder if placing a catalytic converter into the
> upper chamber would 
> produce similar efficiency to the stoves for which
> they were designed. 
> A friend had one in his living room.  Two to three
> logs, perhaps 10" in 
> diameter would slow burn all night long.  The house
> was so hot we used 
> to have to open windows when it was in the single
> digits outside.  It 
> was one of those soapstone clad stoves... maybe
> Tulikivi or some such 
> Scandinavian manufacturer.  The converter makes an
> enormous difference 
> in the efficiency of the stove.  I'm pretty sure you
> would have to burn 
> 3 to 4 times as much wood to get the same heat out
> of a stove without 
> one.  I just don't know how tightly coupled any
> given converter design 
> will be to the stove for which it was
> manufactured... or are they 
> standard commodities?
> 
> 	-Andy
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