![]() ![]() ![]() Now the pipe didn’t streak, but all of the creosote leaked out where the adapter joined the stove. Next he pounded the crimps out of the adapter and inverted the pipe. This homemade yet dripless adapter, fashioned by the author from a joint of eight-inch pipe, simultaneously inverts the stovepipe and reduces it from seven to just six inches. It looked bad, smelled worse, and even caught fire a few times.īuild-up of creosote at the base of my neighbor’s stovepipe, due to the use of an adapter employing the crimped end up. But since the adapter was also crimped the wrong way, so much condensate dribbled out of the joints in the pipe that a tarry deposit began to build up at the base of the pipe. He bought a commercial adapter, and was able to put the stove into service. Thus, he had two problems: first, to reduce the pipe from seven to six inches, and second, to invert the whole thing so it wouldn’t drip. His range had a seven-inch stovepipe collar, sized for use with the crimped end up (the messy way), and his roof jack was sized for six-inch pipe. My neighbor recently encountered a situation that provides a good example.
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