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Title: Cracked wood stove
Post by: jabberwoki on January 21, 2020, 06:17:33 PM

Any solutions other than welding?

Title: Re: Cracked wood stove
Post by: goodfellow on January 21, 2020, 06:56:36 PM

Is it steel or cast iron Steve?

Title: Re: Cracked wood stove
Post by: jabberwoki on January 21, 2020, 08:08:20 PM

I`m 99% it`s cast iron. With a ceramic coating.

Title: Re: Cracked wood stove
Post by: slip knot on January 21, 2020, 08:47:35 PM

Grind it out a bit to get rid of the coating. build a good fire in it, get it hot and braze it up. let the fire slowly go out when your done for the day. be good to go.  ;D  maybe.

Title: Re: Cracked wood stove
Post by: goodfellow on January 21, 2020, 09:17:23 PM

Quote from: slip knot on January 21, 2020, 08:47:35 PM

Grind it out a bit to get rid of the coating. build a good fire in it, get it hot and braze it up. let the fire slowly go out when your done for the day. be good to go.  ;D  maybe.

That's good advice -- you can also use a good nickel electrode instead of brazing. It's a bit more complicated using nickel, but it will take the heat cycles better than brazing material. 

Title: Re: Cracked wood stove
Post by: slip knot on January 21, 2020, 09:21:30 PM

I got a tube of nickle rods a while back. I want to try them on my next cast iron repair. but I know the brass works.

Title: Re: Cracked wood stove
Post by: gtermini on January 21, 2020, 10:39:17 PM

Screw a plate of steel over it to patch the crack and hold the halves together.

Title: Re: Cracked wood stove
Post by: walrus on January 22, 2020, 04:58:48 AM

Quote from: gtermini on January 21, 2020, 10:39:17 PM

Screw a plate of steel over it to patch the crack and hold the halves together.

Maybe furnace cement under the steel plate?  Is it leaking smoke?

Title: Re: Cracked wood stove
Post by: jabberwoki on January 22, 2020, 12:05:23 PM

Nah it just bothers me.

Title: Re: Cracked wood stove
Post by: goodfellow on January 22, 2020, 08:20:54 PM

This welding rod should take care of it in no time --