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Post by Clinton Cool on Sept 10, 2019 13:31:57 GMT
A year or so the lugs that hold the glass in my stove rusted away. My bodge of a solution was to fix the glass in place with high temperature silicone sealant. This worked well over the winter. A few weeks ago I noticed the sealant had suffered a bit with using the stove so decided to put a bead of the same sealant on the outside of the stove door, around the glass. Lit the stove last night and put some oak on from an old table I'd cut up. All was well at first but as the stove got hot, far too hot really, smoke started coming from the bead of silicone, but only in both top hand corners. Opened a few windows and the doors. When the stove cooled down a bit the smoking stopped. Checked this morning, the bead of silicone looked and felt perfect.
Bit mystified with this one. There's definitely no gap between the glass and the silicone so I can only guess it's the silicone itself that's smoking. I did notice when I put the sealant on that it took several hours for it to start setting, wonder if it's gone off or something? Or any other ideas what's going on here?
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Post by Jim on Sept 10, 2019 13:41:39 GMT
I tried using a bit of ht silicone on my stove once. Never again, it stinks. Best to drill the door and. Use a few nuts and bolts with a large washer. Coppers lip is your friend too, helps stop the nuts seizing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 14:08:42 GMT
I've done that in the past the other approach is to drill and tap but that's a bit more involved if slightly tidier.
I did see a stove where the owner was clearly pissed off with glass breaking and had just bolted a steel plate in instead.
I have had several glass front stoves it seems the wrong approach as if the glass breaks you have no heating. And the nuts do shear off.
Current stoves include one with Mica window and one with an opening door with no glass and the other one has just got a peep hole.
Yes it is nice to see the fire I admit but large surface area glass is asking for problems.
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Post by lollygagger on Sept 10, 2019 14:12:42 GMT
It was probably not set in the centre of the thickest parts so it "boiled" as liquids do, and the "steam" had to escape somewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 15:33:46 GMT
I tried silicon on the top of my stove, left it for a week and it still smoked, left it another week and still smoke..
Gave up and dug it out and used cement.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 15:40:44 GMT
I reckon once you get the fire going the temperature in that area will exceed the rated temp for silicone shit
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Post by kris on Sept 23, 2019 19:23:20 GMT
Coppers lip is your friend too, helps stop the nuts seizing. Seems a bit extreme, using coppers lips to stop your nuts seizing. Must be a Lancashire thing.
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Post by Jim on Sept 23, 2019 19:46:33 GMT
Coppers lip is your friend too, helps stop the nuts seizing. Seems a bit extreme, using coppers lips to stop your nuts seizing. Must be a Lancashire thing. It goes with the big truncheon.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2019 19:54:54 GMT
I've got a nightstick.
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Post by Jim on Sept 27, 2019 14:17:27 GMT
We must compare weapons sometime. I wonder if naughtyfox would like to join in too?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 14:25:44 GMT
When our Charnwood stove was installed at home two years ago I took out the glass fixing screws and re installed them using Copaslip.
When I changed the glass last month due to it looking badly 'crazed' the screws were incredibly and surprisingly easy to remove. It made changing the glass a breeze. Needless to say the screws were re inserted once more with Copaslip.
I'm surprised manufacturers don't do it from new as it makes life a lot easier.
Two screws on our Morso on the boat just wouldn't come out at all, I could only loosen them sufficiently to rotate the clips 90 degrees which luckily was just enough to get the glass out (which had cracked in that case). Rotating them back had to be done with great care as I'd fitted a new glass rope meaning it risked cracking the glass.
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 27, 2019 14:31:41 GMT
We must compare weapons sometime. I wonder if naughtyfox would like to join in too? No thanks. I'd prefer a romantic evening with the Witch inside our boat, a decent Chenin Blanc and me poking noodles in the wok, chuck in the stir-fry oriental vegetables and some (pre-fried) chicken and then the teriyaki sauce. Candle lanterns on the back deck, and Classical FM on the radio.
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 27, 2019 14:36:28 GMT
It made changing the glass a breeze. Needless to say the screws were re inserted once more with Copaslip. Was wondering about this - last Summer (2018) one of our cooker rings was burning yellow-orange, so we, for the first time ever, undid the screws to the gas cooker hob caps, all 4 of them. 2 little screws for each cap. Would there be any point in putting this 'Copaslip' to the threads of these screws? I don't know how hot the 'caps' get (if they get hot at all?). Under each cap was a pile of grey dust (from what?). The grey dust was responsible for the holes being a bit blocked. We vacuumed the dust away, and repeated this action this Summer when we had 240v in Market Harborough in July (there was less dust then after just one year).
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Post by Jim on Sept 27, 2019 14:38:07 GMT
We must compare weapons sometime. I wonder if naughtyfox would like to join in too? No thanks. I'd prefer a romantic evening with the Witch inside our boat, a decent Chenin Blanc and me poking noodles in the wok, chuck in the stir-fry oriental vegetables and some (pre-fried) chicken and then the teriyaki sauce. Candle lanterns on the back deck, and Classical FM on the radio. Hmm, can't find classical fm on my radio. Is it a Finnish thing, playing Arvo Pert?
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 27, 2019 14:39:20 GMT
I tried silicon on the top of my stove, left it for a week and it still smoked, left it another week and still smoke.. Gave up and dug it out and used cement. Same here - put black silicon around the base of the chimney cylinder where it meets the stove 5 years ago, it worked fine but bubbled up, so a year ago we dug it all out with a pointy screwdriver then pushed in a length of 'fire rope' and pushed in 'stove cement' on top. Still looks nice and neat.
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