Re: Magic Heat heat reclaimer

Posted by Salmoneye on January 25, 2003 at 08:52:37 from (65.19.74.126):

In Reply to: Magic Heat heat reclaimer posted by R Rahmier on January 25, 2003 at 08:16:57:

They do work...However they will cut down on the heat going up the chimney and do restrict draft to a minor extent...If you regularly burn your stove at about 300 degrees at 2 foot above the fire box (barely in the 'acceptable' zone) you may leach off enough heat in the upper stack to have your gases precipitate out more tars (creosote)...In this case I would remove and clean the whole pipe at least every month during the burning season...If you regularly burn at 450 degrees, you may be fine all the way up the stack...Even if you burn 'hot' enough, I would clean the whole shooting match half way through the winter...

They do indeed work...Just take a tad more care...

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