Help with temperature on old box stove

[Phlipphlop]

Hello I am brand new to wood stoves and am trying to do it safely. I have installed in a shed and am getting temperatures much to hot to handle. I can not find any documentation on the stove and am having trouble controlling the temperature. I am fearful that burning too cold will result in chimney fire and I am fearful burning to hot will result in the same. Again I am brand new to this and have researched a lot although it seems every time I try and find out best practices I am more and more concerned with my stove temp. Hope I have come to the right place and can get some guidance. Thank you.

Stove model: findlays no 18. Carleton place Ontario
Adjustments: flue pipe damper, and air intake on the bottom of unit.
Wood: dried for two years, ash and maple.

What I am doing now.: I start a small fire at the front get a nice bed of coals add logs and let it roar up to temp. Then I shut the door and slowly close off the flue pipe damper and close the air intake gradually. This will get me good temps but it then start roaring and soon gets uncontrollable. If I close the flue pipe completely and the air intake at the right time then I get a slow burn with good indoor temps but I am scared of the creosote buildup as the flue pipe is reading far below the good temp gauge.

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Jeff in Maine]

Put a damper in the stove pipe and run her!

 

[Phlipphlop]

i believe there is a damper. or i don't know enough about these things and i am mistaken. if i turn the damper so that is is fully closed i get good room temps but the thermometer says i am burning too cold and will be producing creosote.

 

[3650]

It could be pulling in through all the mating joints of its assembly. I had one of those a long time ago and I took it all apart to paint and then when I assembled it I sealed up all the joints with stove cement. Those type stoves really aren't airtight unless this is done.

Another thing could be the swing away top could be warped. If it has a swing away. Mine did. If it's warped the gap will let air in feeding the fire.

What is your stove sitting on? Looks like wood.

 

[Phlipphlop]

It could be pulling in through all the mating joints of its assembly. I had one of those a long time ago and I took it all apart to paint and then when I assembled it I sealed up all the joints with stove cement. Those type stoves really aren't airtight unless this is done.

Another thing could be the swing away top could be warped. If it has a swing away. Mine did. If it's warped the gap will let air in feeding the fire.

What is your stove sitting on? Looks like wood.

Those are great pointers. Thank you. And it is sitting on ceramic tile.