[TheForge] Re: Wood stoves

[Mike Spencer]

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:

> Mike Spencer wrote:
>> Bob Willman wrote:
>> 
>> bw> The drums were horizontal with one above the other. The fire was
>> bw> in the lower drum and the smoke went from the rear of the bottom
>> bw> drum up into the rear of the top drum and the stack exited the
>> bw> front of the bottom drum.
>> 
> If you rig these just right, you are supposed to get secondary 
> combustion and burn the smoke in the top chamber.

Yeah.  Oxy hose connected? :-)  And if you *don't* get secondary
combustion, I should think you'd get condensation of wood
distillates.  Huge can of compustible crap waiting to become a flue
fire.

- Mike

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