All things being equal, what would you recommend? Regency F3100 or Century FW300010?

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The Regency F3100 was their mainstream workhorse medium-sized stove with a firebrick baffle, ash pan, and blower. It's a medium-sized secondary tube burner.
Is the Century FW300010 the same as the FW3000? If so, this is a very different and much larger, value stove from SBI.
 
The Regency F3100 was their mainstream workhorse medium-sized stove with a firebrick baffle, ash pan, and blower. It's a medium-sized secondary tube burner.
Is the Century FW300010 the same as the FW3000? If so, this is a very different and much larger, value stove from SBI.
So in general, is regency a better manufacturer?
 
I wouldn't say that Regency is better than SBI which makes the Century. It's just that Regency only has 2 stove lines, Regency and Hampton and SBI has many from Century up to Osburn. Both are Canadian stoves tube secondary stoves. From that point on, they are quite different in size.