Amanda i really enjoyed your moma's perspective. And i have to agree Carl did an absolute fantastic job and your stove looks absolutely wonderful with food cooking on it.
I bought a oxygen mapp brazing kit many years ago. I never used it for brazing however i did use it for getting rusted nuts cherry hot to remove them and it worked for that but the small containers just did not last long at all.
Vermont castings made a little stove called the aspen . It is a small box stove with a grate,ash pan,s shaped burn path with fire brick lining and secondary burn tubes,it also had a friction exspansion and contraction thermostatic spring that controled the burn . I think if that paticular stove had been made to take a 24 inch logg with large fire box,it might have been the ultimate box stove.
The fire burns directly on the bottom of the stove. The stove is full cast iron with copper plates bolted in the sides and back. You don't need bricks of any kind in a cast iron stove. You just have to be careful about over firing a cast iron stove. Bricks of any kind don't actually help a wood stove at all except to protect it from over firing. They don't actually help produce anymore heat from the stove. That's why we don't use them. Please let us know if you have anymore questions.
Amanda i really enjoyed your moma's perspective. And i have to agree Carl did an absolute fantastic job and your stove looks absolutely wonderful with food cooking on it.
It is really neat to see how you both improvised and got past whatever problems. Well done you too😊
Thanks so much! 😊
I bought a oxygen mapp brazing kit many years ago. I never used it for brazing however i did use it for getting rusted nuts cherry hot to remove them and it worked for that but the small containers just did not last long at all.
Vermont castings made a little stove called the aspen . It is a small box stove with a grate,ash pan,s shaped burn path with fire brick lining and secondary burn tubes,it also had a friction exspansion and contraction thermostatic spring that controled the burn . I think if that paticular stove had been made to take a 24 inch logg with large fire box,it might have been the ultimate box stove.
Hello are there ceramic bricks on the bottom of the inside of the stove or does the wood burn directly on the metal bottom ?
The fire burns directly on the bottom of the stove. The stove is full cast iron with copper plates bolted in the sides and back. You don't need bricks of any kind in a cast iron stove. You just have to be careful about over firing a cast iron stove. Bricks of any kind don't actually help a wood stove at all except to protect it from over firing. They don't actually help produce anymore heat from the stove. That's why we don't use them. Please let us know if you have anymore questions.