The first 30 I got kept running away on me. At first I just blamed it on the zipper air. Then after several hair raising nights I laid a steel ruler across the bottom of the front and it was bowed in. When I got the stove I only checked the top and sides of the door with the dollar bill for some reason before I hauled it inside. I doubled the gasket until I could put it in the back of a pickup and drive down to Monroe to meet Mike and get the replacement. It was already December and we have no other heat. He was gonna ship it to me but I was concerned about the freight company wrecking the stove. When the original got here via FedEx freight the pallet was destroyed.
I only know of one other forum member that has encountered that and his was on the hinge side of the door opening.
Of course the way Smokey is burning that stove, like it has pissed him off, no telling what is warped on it. I wrecked my old stove burning it too hot and slamming N/S large splits against the back wall of the firebox while it was hot. And it was a 1/4" stove body and 3/8" top plate. I knocked a weld loose at the top of the back wall.
I take a lot better care of this sucker.
I only know of one other forum member that has encountered that and his was on the hinge side of the door opening.
Of course the way Smokey is burning that stove, like it has pissed him off, no telling what is warped on it. I wrecked my old stove burning it too hot and slamming N/S large splits against the back wall of the firebox while it was hot. And it was a 1/4" stove body and 3/8" top plate. I knocked a weld loose at the top of the back wall.
I take a lot better care of this sucker.