Inside rusted

[Raven20]

I think I did a no-no at the end of the season last year....I went to clean my stove yesterday and the inside has all these rust spots....Any suggestion on how to get rid of them? Thanks

 

[mnkywrnch]

I would just use some light sand paper say 800 grit whatever that doesnt take off the first fire will.

 

[humpin iron]

no biggie, just paint over, yer gonna start using the stv soon anyway

 

[freeburn]

I've got rust spots if you look through the heat exchangers. It smelled terrible when I first lit it up, but doesn't hurt anything. Not a whole lot you can do. I usually leave a thin coat of ash on over Summer. Or like some have already said, just paint it, it will burn off.

 

[OldDedHed]

To avoid that at end of season I wire brush my unit down really well, vacuum it out, and then spray it down with Pam cooking spray. Works great. I figure the less rust, the longer the thing will last.

 

[srjtr7]

I had the same issue after the first year of using my stove.

I did a full cleaning and repained it....here is a post with pictures.

https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/23850/

I just did it again for this years season and because I repainted last year it seamed like less rust I had to deal with and I got better results.

 

[pete324rocket]

yesterday I went at mine with a wire brush cup on a grinder with a full mask and vacuum running. Me no waste time.