After burning wood all week continuously, it was time for some maintenance on the stove.
Ran the brush down the flue. This was way overdue.
Shoveled out a weeks worth of ashes and the debris from the chimney sweep.
Removed the upper air tubes, cleaned them, and fixed a mistake in the original assembly.
Reinstalled the upper air tubes and fire bricks.
(Only took five tries to get everything back in right.)
Not gonna burn tonight as I am almost out of wood. Saving what I have in case of power outages.
Need to get off my butt and get some wood cut, split and ranked.
The stove should work a lot better after I fixed the upper air tubes.
Someone, (previous owner, manufacturer) had welded a metal strip to one end of the tubes to hold them in place. Only problem, they welded the strip too close to the end of the tubes so they would not go into the air box holes. I cut a 1/4 inch strip off the metal so now the tubes and fit in the stove properly.
The stove should burn better now that the air can get to where it is supposed to go.
I'm dirty and tired.
Time for a shower and flop.
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