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Hi all, i thougt i would like to show you a before and after on this old stove that i got from cartajima.
If you look at the before photo you can see the condition it was in, this little stove has a back boiler, more on that in a while.
The first job was to strip the stove down into its individual parts, these were cleaned with various types of wire brush and steel wool, this took a good few hours, then primmed with heat resistent primmer paint.
It was then time to check out the back boiler, this was done by using some fittings to seal the outlets, i filled the back boiler to about half full with water and then using a compressor i used air to bring the presure inside the back boiler to 3 bar, this is more than it would be in normal use, it leaked.

So out came the welder, this is a job that has to be done by a compotent welder, hot water under pressure can be very dangerous!! their was a leak from a seam which i cleaned and welded, i then ran the presure test again and all was ok.
I srayed the whole stove with wood stove paint from plasti-kote, this has to be left to dry and then baked on by bringing the stove up to working temp, i could not do this as i did not have the new glass, this was done instead in front of my open fire over a couse of six hours turning the stove every hour, this paint gives off a very strong smell which is said to be non toxic but i have my doubts, so all windows and doors open!
The seal for the door was next fitting new glassfibre rope fixed with thermocoll glue, i used slightly thinner rope to seal the new glass.

I set up a test for the stove in my back garden using a old hot water cylinder i got from a plumber friend as a gravity heat sink and some old radiators pulled from a skip with a feed and expansion tank. It worked pefectly 'HAPPY DAYS'.
Although as it turns out this would be to small to heat my house it has found a new home with an elderly couple near me that could not aford to buy one, and i have gained experience in how to referb stoves. So im on the look out for a slightly bigger stove in the future.
Thanks for reading and thanks to Cartajima ie Sandra, any question i can answer pm me.