Breaking in a new multifuel stove

[bizzard]

Stoves are a bit like new engines used to be, needing ''running in''. That was not so much the moving parts easing off by scraping excess metal away from bearings and cylinder bores and the like, which is what most people thought, but acclimatizing the molecules of the different component metal parts to make them more compatible and so ease stresses because of slight differences in expansion and contraction rates, and this was more quickly and safely done by running the engine under gentle load up to operating temperature, stopping it, and when cold repeating the process several times. Most folk seemed to think that just running the engine for a long, long time without stopping it or taking their car for a lengthy drive did it.

Stoves are a bit similar, especially cast iron ones, A few smallish fires letting it go cold in-between are probably best before whacking up the heat and keeping it lit for a long period.

The Chinese stoves seem to be much more tolerant to these stresses than many of the well known so called ''bespoke'' stoves. I've not known any to crack up, yet.

[Starcoaster]

Incidentally, stove thermometers are useful things (round thing that magnetically sticks to the side of the stove). Either that or, more expensively an eco-fan whose primary purpose is to indicate how hot the stove is by means of the franticness of the otherwise pointless fan rotation.

 

I love my Ecofan. His name is Ernie. I did also get a stove thermometer of the type you mention, I found it didn't do much of anything!

[Sea Dog]

 

I love my Ecofan. His name is Ernie. I did also get a stove thermometer of the type you mention, I found it didn't do much of anything!

If it didn't tell you the temperature, it was broken. If it did tell you the temperature, what else were you expecting?

[Starcoaster]

It didn't tell me the temperature. Well, it did tell me a temperature, but it was the same one whether the stove was on or not...

[Athy]

Well, it did tell me a temperature, but it was the same one whether the stove was on or not...

Bit of a waste of time lighting the darn' thing then. I'm not surprised you're getting a new one.

[Starcoaster]

Well played, sir.

[ditchcrawler]

get one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vulcan-Stove-Stirling-engine-powered/dp/B002Y4UOYMand sit and watch it chugging away

 

Edited September 25, 2015 by ditchcrawler

[MtB]

 

I love my Ecofan. His name is Ernie. I did also get a stove thermometer of the type you mention, I found it didn't do much of anything!

 

Can I have mine back then, as you now have one of your own?? :D:D

(Actually on reflection, I think I prolly gived it to you as a pressy or summink... Now's you chance to say YES i did!)

[Starcoaster]

YES YOU DID Ernie is MINE!

Also, fanks for the lovely present!

[Ronniesonic]

It's definitely 'Chinese airspace' out there today, so get the fire going........

 

 

A 'nip in the air' for sure.

 

 

 

 

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