7mm Thick Copper Plate

[Sea Dog]

1 hour ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

Presumably the air gap is on the stove for a reason..........

It's an odd one. Where's the point in a stove you can't pop a nice stew on top of?

[mark99]

2 hours ago, Sea Dog said:

It's an odd one. Where's the point in a stove you can't pop a nice stew on top of?

 

It's an odd one alright. I contacted the maker who emailed me straight back - it's so the top looks like it "floats".

 

It's not fixed hard down either so copper good to go. Being a contermporary stove, it looks good innit.

Edited September 10, 2018 by mark99

[MtB]

22 minutes ago, mark99 said:

 

It's an odd one alright. I contacted the maker who emailed me straight back - it's so the top looks like it "floats".

 

It's not fixed hard down either so copper good to go. Being a contermporary stove, it looks good innit.

 

Presumably it can only burn contemporary fuel?

[mark99]

it's Defra approved in a smokeless zone so smokeless only or wood.

[Mac of Cygnet]

One of our stoves also has a 'false top', but in this case of mesh.  I've always assumed that it's to stop accidental burns.  The central section can be removed to allow a top flue (or to cook on, but if this stove got that hot the room would be uninhabitable).  The large sloping front above the doors also has an air gap behind it.

Edited September 10, 2018 by Mac of Cygnet

[mark99]

I placed the copper bridge (which actually was double the gap I thought it was) and it's improved. I had to cut the copper slab in two to get the full bridge. As its a "beta" type Stirling, the flue, being single skin in front of fan, gets very hot is messing up the cooling portion of the stirling cycle. 

 

So next mod is to bolt copper halves together with thermal paste and add it bit on outside faces of copper block. And to shield the flue pipe from heatsink. 

 

None of which will really send any more heat around the room but its become a case of bloody mind-id-ness just to see the fan spinning fast!