License plate heat shield?

[ccjumper]

I am in the car business and have collected lots of license plates. I thought maybe I could use mechanics wire to connect them together into a "blanket". Then use spacers to keep the 1" air gap behind, i am using cement board on the wall as well.
Any thoughts on this? I will keep them slightly overlapping the next so no air gaps.
It's going in my mancave in the garage.
Please let me know what you think. I'm going to check the thickness tomorrow with my caliper...

 

[30WCF]

Cool idea.
I don’t know how hot they get based off how much you are cheating the stove to the wall, but there could be some discoloration over time.
I’d maybe go rigid and space the cement board off the wall and bolt the plates directly to the cement board.
I’m sure you could trim the cement board 1/4” inside the outer edge of what the plates cover, or let it be a little proud of the plates and trim it in diamond plate.

 

[bigealta]

I was thinking about something similar with soda cans. I'd certainly try it.

If you have so many you could also do a double row where you could leave gaps between the plates. Just make 1 row higher than the other so the gaps would be blocked by the 2nd blanket of plates. I wonder if the air flow would have them slightly moving? Probably not but would be cool if they did.

 

[stoveliker]

Would the polymer coating on the license plate be considered flammable?

 

[begreen]

It might be alright depending on the stove and need. Is this for peace of mind, good looks, or is a clearnace reduction the goal? What stove?

 

[Eman85]

Space your cement board off of the wall with electric fence ceramic insulators, then do whatever you like with your license plates. I hooked all of mine together and they hand on the walls of my shop. Behind a stove might ruin them and they might be your retirement account, surprising what people will pay for plates.

 

[Highbeam]

As a guy that has painted sheetrock 6" behind his stove, so long as your license plates are outside the required minimum clearance to combustibles then I don't see a problem. It's okay if the thing is combustible as long as the thing is far enough away.

There is almost never a reason to build a NFPA heat shield with spacers to hold it off the wall. Only a couple of stove manufacturers recognize that shield and give you any "credit" for it. Doesn't hurt though!

 

[stoveliker]

Yeah; I interpreted "heat shield" as being inside the non shielded clearance space.

 

[begreen]

Not enough info posted to know whether an airgapped heatshield is needed or not. It would help to know the stove and current clearance to combustibles. Considering this is going in a garage, perhaps there is more than one issue here, like whether it is permissible.