reversing the door opening direction on a Blaze King stove

[stoveliker]

My experience is to go just a bit beyond the visible end of the crack, seems it's often cracked, but not visibly opened up, got to literally "get ahead of it"

Yes, The crack will extend beyond what you can see.

 

[RustyShackleford]

I would think the hardest part would be to find a welder to do it. I had a hairline crack several years ago and called up a couple of welders in the area. They told me, sure, bring it in! I'm like, I can't exactly bear hug an 800lb stove and throw it in the back of my Prius!

I had a crack right around the door-frame (nothing to do with the discussion of this thread) and a mobile guy came (with his young daughter as helper) and fixed it for $50, which BK cheerfully re-imbursed.

 

[Sandy Alan]

Nice. Not gonna happen around here. Bring it in, or at least drag it out into the yard ("if I do it in your house I'll burn your house down!"), and I think the quote if I did that was $200.00 to come out. Don't think anyone would be reimbursing that on a twenty year old stove. It's hairline and the cement works good. I just sand it and renew it every year to insure I have good coverage. I originally tried JB Weld high temperature, but it crumbled off first fire!