For all of you who have cast iron stoves....do you have any surface rust inside of the stoves firebox?
I use gun cleaning solvent and gun oil to keep mine from rusting. Hoppe's #9 does a great job removing surface rust and a good spray down with rem-oil once or twice over the non-burning season will prevent any rust from developing. Make sure you wipe it off well before burning (it is flammable), and be ready for a little smoke while the remnants of the coating burn off.
My stove was cast iron. I should have said the iron back then was better. I'm not sure which one rusts easier. It sure surprised me how rust-free that stove was.
No rust here.
Well...aren't you the privey one...I now wonder why you don't? You live in a humid area do you not?
So leaving ash in there for the non burn periods is a bad thing?
Not sure . . . I just try to take it out . . . not really sure of the PH of the ash.
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