I know it's hard to see in this pic, but is this kind of paint damage (basically falling off) indicative of overfire? I'm assuming it is. My installers got furnace cement all over the back of the stove, so at first I assumed there was some kind of reaction with that that caused the paint to not cure. But after repainting it once I'm kind of leaning towards my having been overfiring the thing on a regular basis. I had been reading griddle temps, which I never let past 700F, which would mean about 100F less on the cast iron, so you wouldn't think that would be an issue. But on occasion with the bypass engaged and a big bed of charcoal, I've had the rear collar get up to 700F as well. Other than this, I don't see anything obviously damaged, but then, I don't know that I would.