[TheForge] Wood stoves

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

good idea.

CGRAF wrote:
> 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
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