[TheForge] Wood stoves

[CGRAF]

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> 
> Mike Spencer wrote:
>
>>> 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
> I'd wondered about that Mike.
> The second drum is supposed to have a couple of adjustable air intakes 
> for oxy. A " producer gas" burning stove ought to work. They make 
> catalytic units to serve the same purpose but the exhaust has to be 
> pretty damn hot for it to work.
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I'd think that setting the top drum slightly pitched to the fluestack 
between the drums would cut this risk way down.
Any distillates would drain, in minutes quantities, back into the fire.
This is why I was taught to run smoke pipe in the counter intuitive 
fashion that drains creosote back to the fire.

Mike Graf