HorribleFixer
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Hello,
Here is my current project that I am taking on. It is an old Kodiak wood stove that I am attempting to refinish and use. This place was horribly mistreated by the previous owner and it flooded now there is all kinds of damage and I am slowly fixing it. I started this task late one night and realized that it cleans up pretty well. I only did the left door and it took me 3 hours to do inside and out. I still need to do a few touch ups on the door in the little spots but for the main portion I am using a wire wheel on a drill and then I will be refinishing it with high heat paint after it is fully cleaned. I also did the top left corner just to see how it would clean up as well as a few small spots in other areas.I know that it will need a new seal for the doors because the old one was in horrible shape so I just peeled it off. I just cannot figure out how to get the thing out. As you can tell, it is very rusty and if I am going to refinish it, I want to do it correct, so I wanted to pull the whole thing out and refinish the whole thing and not just what I can reach. There is a picture of the flue and it is very rusty as well as the top of the stove itself but it cannot be reached without removing the whole thing so I can get to the top/sides/bottom/and back. I know the thing weights a lot but I shoved a piece of steel under it and stood on it and bounced and the stove didn't move at all. I looked under it and it either looks to be welded to 2 vertical pieces of steel that run from front to back or those 2 pieces are the feet so that it doesn't sit on the ground. I couldn't tell. Also, the flue lever is the only thing holding the metal shield back on the wall but I cannot even figure how to remove that. It is almost like I would have to straighten the flue lever and rebend it after I remove the shield, clean it up, then put it back on, or it(the flue lever) somehow unbolts from the inside? The next idea was to put a floor jack under the thing and try to jack it up to see if it moves but I wanted to just check here in case anyone has dealt with something like this before so that I don't have to try anything drastic just yet.
If anyone has experience with this or has any advice, please let me know. Thanks.
(I do not know if this thread is in the correct section but it seemed like a good place for it. If it isn't please move it.)
Here is my current project that I am taking on. It is an old Kodiak wood stove that I am attempting to refinish and use. This place was horribly mistreated by the previous owner and it flooded now there is all kinds of damage and I am slowly fixing it. I started this task late one night and realized that it cleans up pretty well. I only did the left door and it took me 3 hours to do inside and out. I still need to do a few touch ups on the door in the little spots but for the main portion I am using a wire wheel on a drill and then I will be refinishing it with high heat paint after it is fully cleaned. I also did the top left corner just to see how it would clean up as well as a few small spots in other areas.I know that it will need a new seal for the doors because the old one was in horrible shape so I just peeled it off. I just cannot figure out how to get the thing out. As you can tell, it is very rusty and if I am going to refinish it, I want to do it correct, so I wanted to pull the whole thing out and refinish the whole thing and not just what I can reach. There is a picture of the flue and it is very rusty as well as the top of the stove itself but it cannot be reached without removing the whole thing so I can get to the top/sides/bottom/and back. I know the thing weights a lot but I shoved a piece of steel under it and stood on it and bounced and the stove didn't move at all. I looked under it and it either looks to be welded to 2 vertical pieces of steel that run from front to back or those 2 pieces are the feet so that it doesn't sit on the ground. I couldn't tell. Also, the flue lever is the only thing holding the metal shield back on the wall but I cannot even figure how to remove that. It is almost like I would have to straighten the flue lever and rebend it after I remove the shield, clean it up, then put it back on, or it(the flue lever) somehow unbolts from the inside? The next idea was to put a floor jack under the thing and try to jack it up to see if it moves but I wanted to just check here in case anyone has dealt with something like this before so that I don't have to try anything drastic just yet.
If anyone has experience with this or has any advice, please let me know. Thanks.
(I do not know if this thread is in the correct section but it seemed like a good place for it. If it isn't please move it.)
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