Hello fellow Jotul owners I'm posting this hoping it might be useful information, maybe it won't be news to anyone but I sure have learned a lot. Thanks to branchburner in this thread: https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/jotul-f600-air-leak.148215/ I decided to tear my Oslo apart and reseal the Air Manifold, Tube frame Holder and Tube Holders. I removed the firebrick and all of the above mention parts scraped away the old cement, sanded and wire brushed all rusty areas and then reassembled using stove cement. It took me about 4 hrs to do and now my Oslo is finally functioning as it should.
This really makes me happy because after 2 seasons of burning this 2002 Oslo I thought I had done everything I could do to prevent this stove from chewing through the wood, absolutely no air leaks I was sure, but after seeing a friends brand new Oslo in operation I knew for certain that my stove was getting too much primary air and not enough secondary air. I'd have the primary air all the way off and still the firebox was aglow with very little secondary action and the wood was gone in no time.
This quote from Branchburner says it all for me: "It is now behaving very differently than before, with great secondaries and throwing great heat, with lower flue temps. Instead of a bright red-orange roaring fire filling the whole box, I have more restrained blue-orange flames mostly at the top of the box. The burn has definitely slowed considerably. So far so good."
The cement Jotul uses to seal these components eventually cracks and falls out and when it does the stove cannot function efficiently so I see this as a semi regular maintenance item especially since it isn't difficult or time consuming to do.
This really makes me happy because after 2 seasons of burning this 2002 Oslo I thought I had done everything I could do to prevent this stove from chewing through the wood, absolutely no air leaks I was sure, but after seeing a friends brand new Oslo in operation I knew for certain that my stove was getting too much primary air and not enough secondary air. I'd have the primary air all the way off and still the firebox was aglow with very little secondary action and the wood was gone in no time.
This quote from Branchburner says it all for me: "It is now behaving very differently than before, with great secondaries and throwing great heat, with lower flue temps. Instead of a bright red-orange roaring fire filling the whole box, I have more restrained blue-orange flames mostly at the top of the box. The burn has definitely slowed considerably. So far so good."
The cement Jotul uses to seal these components eventually cracks and falls out and when it does the stove cannot function efficiently so I see this as a semi regular maintenance item especially since it isn't difficult or time consuming to do.
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