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Karen Lea Rainey

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Thought I'd  share this picture with you of my "fake Epping stove".

Recently took a new boat with an Epping stove, well bits of one!

Wooden box built to similar size, screw on the original doors add the collar, paint it black and here it is.

Now just need a 4 1/2 inch inside diameter flue pipe to add to the authenticity!

About 1 metre long should do it, if any body has a piece I'd  be 'grate' full.

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15 minutes ago, Karen Lea Rainey said:

Thought I'd  share this picture with you of my "fake Epping stove".

Recently took a new boat with an Epping stove, well bits of one!

Wooden box built to similar size, screw on the original doors add the collar, paint it black and here it is.

Now just need a 4 1/2 inch inside diameter flue pipe to add to the authenticity!

About 1 metre long should do it, if any body has a piece I'd  be 'grate' full.

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I have seen one similar where the top lifted for storage of things do not unique

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3 hours ago, Karen Lea Rainey said:

Now just need a 4 1/2 inch inside diameter flue pipe to add to the inauthenticity!

Fixed that for you. Carrying on the fake theme, how about having a plastic flue pipe?

Soil pipe is 110mm, so about the right size and comes already coloured black.

https://www.toolstation.com/soil-pipe-110mm-3m/p68433

3m is rather long for what you need, but you've got a replacement length for when it gets melted by some one trying to light the stove!

 

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1 hour ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Carrying on the fake theme, how about having a plastic flue pipe?

I was going to suggest that a label be attached to it saying

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe"

But the when I started to work out the implications my head couldn't handle it. 

 

Nice job by the op by the way.

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6 hours ago, reg said:

I was going to suggest that a label be attached to it saying

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe"

But the when I started to work out the implications my head couldn't handle it. 

 

Nice job by the op by the way.

It would be a bit surreal.

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2 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

It would be a bit surreal.

I made the mistake of trying to think about it and realised I was trying to subvert a subversion but my mind couldn't process the outcome.

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Personally,  I can't see the point of a fake Epping. Unless I can warm my cockles on it with the cabin doors shut behind me while enjoying a single malt I wouldn't bother.

I've given up boating in winter several years ago on anything that doesn't have a back cabin stove, it really does make that much of a difference. 

And what's next,  a mock JP2 that opens up to reveal a cocktail cabinet? 

 

Says the man whose boat is reputedly the original "washer Josher" !!

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