Perhaps there should be a separate forum for Craigslist scores.
This isn't as amazing a deal as nonprophet's F500 score, but the theme is similar: a couple (from SoCal) had just bought the house and wanted "that dirty thing outta here" so they could get their electric baseboard installed. Yes ma'am, happy to help you out, ma'am. A near-new dark blue enamel Waterford Leprechaun, complete with stovepipe and 6' of Class A double wall chimney, for $150 was too good to pass up.
I went to examine it today and I swear, there have been maybe a handful of fires burned in this thing. Hardly any soot in the upper chamber. The fire fence, which directs the primary air into the fire, was still packed in it's transport packing - a little rusty but perfectly clean - it had never been installed. One screw which secures the door catch had come loose, so the door doesn't close tightly. Instead of fixing it, they let it sit and just looked at it for more than 10 years.
It should be fun to play with. Pretty interesting air system design on this critter.
I'll post pics when I get it here this weekend.
BTW, PDF users manuals for the discontinued Waterford stoves are on the Regency website:
(broken link removed to http://www.regency-fire.com/Customer-Care/Manuals/Discontinued-Manuals.aspx)
This isn't as amazing a deal as nonprophet's F500 score, but the theme is similar: a couple (from SoCal) had just bought the house and wanted "that dirty thing outta here" so they could get their electric baseboard installed. Yes ma'am, happy to help you out, ma'am. A near-new dark blue enamel Waterford Leprechaun, complete with stovepipe and 6' of Class A double wall chimney, for $150 was too good to pass up.
I went to examine it today and I swear, there have been maybe a handful of fires burned in this thing. Hardly any soot in the upper chamber. The fire fence, which directs the primary air into the fire, was still packed in it's transport packing - a little rusty but perfectly clean - it had never been installed. One screw which secures the door catch had come loose, so the door doesn't close tightly. Instead of fixing it, they let it sit and just looked at it for more than 10 years.
It should be fun to play with. Pretty interesting air system design on this critter.
I'll post pics when I get it here this weekend.
BTW, PDF users manuals for the discontinued Waterford stoves are on the Regency website:
(broken link removed to http://www.regency-fire.com/Customer-Care/Manuals/Discontinued-Manuals.aspx)