Stainless Liner Poor Wear and Install Key Damper?

[Hexa Fox]

Yes, the key damper can be there. Just be sure to wear a glove when adjusting. It will get very hot.

Thank you, I also want you guys to know I have heard your concerns. I plan to moisture check the wood that I start bringing in right away. Also I plan to be home when I restrict the flow with the damper at all and only run wide open when I am away. I also plan to pull off the stove pipe at least once and check it during this burning season.

Can someone tell me what warning signs there are if I restrict it too much? I have seen people report a smoke smell coming back into their home? Stuff like that and can it be resolved by simply placing the damper into the wide open position?

 

[Trevor Tahclep]

I feel really dumb now. The brand was from Selkirk and they actually do have a key damper available. I even had the Selkirk ones pulled up on my computer but bought this one from Rockford Chimney in a hurry before I went to bed one night. I was actually looking at what it would cost to replace the entire stove pipe assembly with Rockford Chimney pipe because of how quality this key damper is. However, it would cost me several hundred dollars. I think I will just order the Selkirk one and be done with it.

Also can someone tell me if the key damper can be installed directly into the neck of my Englander? This stove requires an adapter and the Selkirk fits well but I don't like it. If you as much as breath on it, it seems to want to move. Admittedly I never screwed this pipe together last year. Back to the point I dry fitted this key damper directly into the stove and it seems to fit better than the adapter. So is it okay to install the key damper where the adapter is suppose to go as long as it is a good fit?

Yes it can mount on the stove collar, it should fit the collar exactly the same as the stove pipe would, each section of stove pipe should be secured with 3-4 stove pipe screws.

 

[kborndale]

Warning signs that your burning too low is smoke coming out the chimney. Wet wood also does this. When burning correctly there should be very little visible smoke coming out the chimney once the stove is up to temp.

 

[Trevor Tahclep]

Obviously every system and installation is different, when my stove and chimney is fully warmed and in the 400°+ range I am getting a heat haze coming out my chimney virtually no smoke.

 

[EbS-P]

Thank you, I also want you guys to know I have heard your concerns. I plan to moisture check the wood that I start bringing in right away. Also I plan to be home when I restrict the flow with the damper at all and only run wide open when I am away. I also plan to pull off the stove pipe at least once and check it during this burning season.

Can someone tell me what warning signs there are if I restrict it too much? I have seen people report a smoke smell coming back into their home? Stuff like that and can it be resolved by simply placing the damper into the wide open position?

I measure flue gas temps.

 

[Trevor Tahclep]

The best way I have found if I am burning correctly and optimizing my burning cycle is via my double wall stove pipe probe thermometer, I purchased this one 20 - 25 years ago and it still works as well as the day I installed it. It is from a company in North Carolina I believe, the probe sticks in to the pipe about 3 inches approximately.

Condar stovepipe probe thermometers

stovepipe probe thermometers

www.condar.com

 

[Hexa Fox]

Just wanted to update. I split four pieces of wood today that I plan to burn. I split a very large piece of ash that I had left sitting out on the ground because I was just curious. It measured 18% after it was split. So I split two other pieces of ash that I have stacked in my IBC totes and they both measured around 11% on the freshly split sides. I have some wood from a wild cherry tree too. I thought it was going to be much higher but it too was around 12% on the freshly split side.

So I think my problem was that I was splitting this ash in pretty large chunks. I sort of started to learn my lesson with the wild cherry tree wood and started splitting them smaller. I am still in the process of splitting a lot of that and stacking it but I know where I pulled it from on the pile is older I just cannot estimate how old. I would say it is probably at least a year old.

 

[bholler]

Just wanted to update. I split four pieces of wood today that I plan to burn. I split a very large piece of ash that I had left sitting out on the ground because I was just curious. It measured 18% after it was split. So I split two other pieces of ash that I have stacked in my IBC totes and they both measured around 11% on the freshly split sides. I have some wood from a wild cherry tree too. I thought it was going to be much higher but it too was around 12% on the freshly split side.

So I think my problem was that I was splitting this ash in pretty large chunks. I sort of started to learn my lesson with the wild cherry tree wood and started splitting them smaller. I am still in the process of splitting a lot of that and stacking it but I know where I pulled it from on the pile is older I just cannot estimate how old. I would say it is probably at least a year old.

There is something wrong with your moisture meter. Those readings simply are not possible in your climate with outdoor air seasoning

 

[Hexa Fox]

There is something wrong with your moisture meter. Those readings simply are not possible in your climate with outdoor air seasoning

You mean it is reading too low? A lot of the ash has been split and stacked now for 2+ years. The wild cherry tree was also mostly dead before I had it cut down. That is actually the reason I had it cut down.

 

[bholler]

You mean it is reading too low? A lot of the ash has been split and stacked now for 2+ years. The wild cherry tree was also mostly dead before I had it cut down. That is actually the reason I had it cut down.

Yes it's below the natural equilibrium achievable in most of west Virginia

 

[stoveliker]

Can you post a pic of how the pins are in the splits?

 

[begreen]

Thank you, I also want you guys to know I have heard your concerns. I plan to moisture check the wood that I start bringing in right away. Also I plan to be home when I restrict the flow with the damper at all and only run wide open when I am away. I also plan to pull off the stove pipe at least once and check it during this burning season.

Can someone tell me what warning signs there are if I restrict it too much? I have seen people report a smoke smell coming back into their home? Stuff like that and can it be resolved by simply placing the damper into the wide open position?

This is where a digital flue thermometer is so helpful. It provides realtime measurement of the flue gas temperature. You can see the effect very quickly.

 

[brenndatomu]

We're the splits room temp-ish?
If OP is in the same cold snap we are here, frozen splits can read falsely low...