10/17/09, 11:46 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
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Never heard of the brand. Frankly just about any air tight stove will do ok. More modern ones without catalytic have more baffling and some try to more evenly inject air in strategic areas to lower emissions. Like with any stove you have to have good drawing chimney and nicely dried wood for best results. The catalytic stoves require replacement of catalytic converter every few years and they are pricey.
Even non-airtight stoves are ok if you have time and patience to babysit them and control heat by amount fuel. In other words you have to get small fire going and then just add stick or two of wood fairly frequently. I have an old friend in KS that has lived with one of those $100 farmstore non-airtight box stoves as only heat source for decades in an old and totally uninsulated house. She has good drawing chimney and doesnt mind babysitting the thing. Works for her.
I have an old Sotz air tight barrel stove kit (cost like $30 new) mounted on an old water pressure tank. Had the kit since early 1980s and it works fine. Alas the universal auto draft has finally quit and Sotz is long defunct so have to go back to manual draft control as nobody makes such anymore. Some stove manufacturers have such on their stove, but its not sold as a universal fit kit. The barrel kits sold now are not air tight so if mine ever rusts out or something, have to weld up my own.
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