how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[Hinerman]

https://www.drolet.ca/en/products/stoves/ I think he has the spark.

I did a dealer search. The closest dealer to me is in Nixa, MO. Home of the Workshop.

Morning everybody.

 

[Hedgerow]

Matt, I will have to agree with Don 100 % on that statement. I thought that I had made a big mistake for a few weeks/months
after coming from an old style fire breathing dragon of a wood stove to an EPA wimp of a stove. It took a good while before I realized
how to run it properly and make the stove produce lots of heat. In the meantime, the dealer kept telling me that to get "seasoned" wood.
That is actually what began the journey into the darkness of chainsaws. As seasoned wood was researched on the net, reading of the forums
began. Then AS ..........
Wood that has been in the stack for over a year in the dry will be your best friend with that stove.


The first time you ran a sure nuff ported saw, you did not know how to get "all of it" into the wood.
If one works with these stoves and learns how to hot rod the h... out of them, they do a good job!

Pretty hard to hot rod a Prius... Lol.

But upon further investigation late last night, in the dark..
Chimney on the kid's house got put under the magnifying glass.
Measures 21' tall plus 8" additional flu tile..
Seems to have been built by someone who was not a moron. Tile measures a little less than 7" square, so well within the specs for an EPA "gotta suck like a Hoover" stove.

Seems it was built for the old boy who owned the house prior, but he never got to use it.

It's section of the wall the thimble would go through is solid brick and mortar for a 2' square around where the pipe fits.
I lit a rolled up newspaper in the great room and un capped the hole. I don't have a way to measure flow officially, but it sucked burning pieces of paper off the end and up the pipe..
If that ain't enough, the Prius is going back.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Good morning all still fighting this crap in my head.

 

[Louie B]

Get well soon Kenneth

 

[67L36Driver]

I have no use for the decompression valve I will probably put a bolt in it. I'm gonna get a Stihl OEM tensioner also the huztl one is junk. Other than that they're pretty good parts. The ms390 cylinder kit I have sitting around is super nice from them

FWIW: A stubby hex head bolt is too large of a head. No wrench clearance. Needs to be 13mm like the decomp valve.

The tensioner works well after a good deburring like a wire wheel or your Swiss pattern file. The 'teeth' are some ragged.

 

[Louie B]

7 inch square should give pretty good draft
especially at 21 feet. Once you have it hooked
up to the chimney, you should be fine.
Had to extend my six inch insulated chimney
from twelve to eighteen feet in the house.
and that pipe goes straight up from the stove.
even with the extension that stove is "lazy"
on draft till heated to 400* stove top.
Have patience Matt.

 

[67L36Driver]

Morning midlanders.

Dayton #2 ready to carry on.

No fuel leaks.[emoji16]

 

[Ethan Hamby]

FWIW: A stubby hex head bolt is too large of a head. No wrench clearance. Needs to be 13mm like the decomp valve.

The tensioner works well after a good deburring like a wire wheel or your Swiss pattern file. The 'teeth' are some ragged.

did yours come with steel case bearings? OEM was nylon cage which is dumb lol

 

[Dub11]

Hl supply sales decomp plugs

 

[Dub11]

Get well Kenneth

 

[Dub11]

Morning midlanders.

Dayton #2 ready to carry on.

No fuel leaks.[emoji16]

Carl were do you find all this cool stuff

 

[67L36Driver]

Main bearings have the plastic separator. I'm not convinced there would be a difference in reliability over a stamped steel seperator.

And, metal separators do really nasty things to the top end when they fail.[emoji37]

 

[67L36Driver]

Carl were do you find all this cool stuff

Evilbay.

I have cut back drastically in the past year.

But I can't resist really yummy and interesting specimens.

Old Solo 655 for example.

Needs main bearings and seals.

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

Good morning all still fighting this crap in my head.

Voices? ??


Morning fellas!

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

Ethan - look up a ported 395 that's for sale by Shaun Carr on here. It will chew up that Chinese junk and spit it back overseas.


What do you use your saws for daily?

 

[Fishnuts2]

Pretty hard to hot rod a Prius... Lol.

Yep, I'd have to agree with that statement!!

On the stove though, I have a Lopi that is great once it gets hot enough to burn from the top down. An old timer told me to get the fire and flue hot by burning some baler twine every morning. That will make 'em rumble and roar. Then shut the door and use it as usual.

 

[67L36Driver]

Hah! Any of you fellas are welcome to visit my chainsaw museum. The McCullochs and Homelites have come and gone and now we have left the weird and wonderful.

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.

 

[Workshop]

I did a dealer search. The closest dealer to me is in Nixa, MO. Home of the Workshop.

Morning everybody.

Must be Nixa Hardware. Good place but have to watch sometimes. They can be very expensive.

 

[Ethan Hamby]

I cut pine posts with them