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[buildmyown]

Well I had the stove burning wide open with a nice load of dry red oak. Went down to the basement to check on it and didnt turn on the cellar lights good thing because with them on i might not have noticed the doors on the stove were glowing bright red. I have a non contact infrared thermometer and decided to check the stove the top was at 800 degrees and the doors maxed the thermometer out at over 1000 degrees. So I cut the dampers back to nonthing and will leave it be for awhile to let it cool nice and slow dont want to warp anything more then I might have. The stove is a 1979 Garrison. Guess I dont have to worry about any build up in the pipe.

 

[wkpoor]

My hits 800 on top every now and then and doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Nothing turns red. Its probably between 600-700 right now.

 

[blakey]

Did you split up to look for clues and did Velma lose her glasses?

 

[modn]

Did you split up to look for clues and did Velma lose her glasses?

Oh man!!!!! That's a good one!!! Thanks for the good laugh!!:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[buildmyown]

Did you split up to look for clues and did Velma lose her glasses?

Gotta rep you for that one thats great!

Anyways I usually run it around 600-700 but when I saw the doors glowing red I got a little nervous.

 

[Zodiac45]

My hits 800 on top every now and then and doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Nothing turns red. Its probably between 600-700 right now.

Yep I imagine that my cookstove top is up there too. The oven temp is pegged at 600 so I would think the top is more. Although seeing the red glow is pushing it.

 

[blakey]

Couldn't help it, my kids like Scooby Doo.

 

[danrclem]

I can remember many times when I was growing up that our stove would be cherry red on the outside. I know one of the stoves was a Warm Morning stove. It was round with a grate on the bottom. I don't know if it got red from burning coal or wood because we burned both of them.

Our house had zero insulation so if you were in another room or across the room from the stove you would be cold.

The stove wouldn't hold a fire all night. I remember waking up some mornings after a cold night and the water in the waterbucket would be frozen on the top.

There were a lot of things that I liked about the good ole days but our heating system wasn't one of them. LOL

 

[BIG BEAM]

It's good to "reseason" the metal in a stove once and a while.LOL
DON

 

[ClimbinArbor]

The stove wouldn't hold a fire all night. I remember waking up some mornings after a cold night and the water in the waterbucket would be frozen on the top.

There were a lot of things that I liked about the good ole days but our heating system wasn't one of them. LOL

wow that sounds WAYYYYY to familiar lmao. i remember having the whole family with pallets around the stove all winter lol, the couch was like winning the lottery lol

 

[Moss Man]

The top surface of our Alpiner runs 700-800 most of the time, never been an issue. At the same time, I have never seen any red glowing either.

You had it "wide open"? Please elaborate on that.

 

[buildmyown]

On the back of the stove there are two wheels that control the amount of air intake to the stove the more they are open the more air close them up less air. The way the stove is designed the incoming air comes in threw these to openings that are at the top rear on each side of the stove. Then the air travels down threw two chambers that pre heats the combustion air and feeds the air directly at the rear of the firebox and directly to the coal bed. I had them all the way open.

I did a little research on my stove awhile ago and all i could find was this link.
http://hearth.com/econtent/index.php/wiki/Garrison_Stoves/ I have the larger one with the 8" flue. This stove had been used by my family in the same house for the last 30 years.

Im not to worried about it just have to keep a closer eye on it. This is just the first time that it has happened to me. Im sure the way my father used to run it he had it glow a few times.

 

[blakey]

And you would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those darn kids.

Ok I'll stop now.