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NOTICE:
Fireplace should be run full open for a minimum
of 30 minutes a day during heating season to keep air pas-
sages clean.
WARNING! Risk of Fire!
Keep combustible materials,
gasoline and other flammable vapors and liquids clear of
the fireplace.
DO NOT:
• store flammable materials close to the fireplace
• use gasoline, lantern fuel, kerosene, charcoal lighter
fluid or similar liquids to start or “freshen up” a fire in this
fireplace.
Keep all flammable liquids well away from the fireplace while
it is in use. Combustible materials may ignite.
WARNING! For use with solid wood fuel only.
Other fuels may overfire and generate poisonous gases
(i.e. carbon monoxide).
Before lighting your first fire in the fireplace, make certain that
the baffle and the ceramic blanket are correctly positioned.
It should be resting against the rear support.
Also refer to
care and cleaning of plated surfaces on Section 4 before
lighting your first fire.
NOTICE- The first three or four fires should be of moderate
size to allow the oils and binders to be burned from the
fireplace and the refractory and paint to cure. You may
notice an industrial odor the first few fires. This is considered
normal.
NOTICE: REMOvE ALL LABELS FROM gLASS
BEFORE LIgHTINg THE FIRST FIRE IN YOUR
APPLIANCE.
There are many ways to build a fire. The basic principle
is to light easily-ignitable tinder or paper, which ignites the
fast burning kindling, which in turn ignites the slow-burning
firewood. Here is one method that works well:
1. Open Outside Air by turning the knob counter clock-
wise.
2. Fully open the Combustion Air Control Handle by
moving it completely to the right.
3. Place serveral wads of crushed paper on the firebox
floor. Heating the flue with slightly crumpled newspa-
per before adding kindling keeps smoke to a mini-
mum.
4. Lay small dry sticks of kindling on top of the paper.
5. Make sure that no matches or other combustibles are
in the immediate area of the fireplace. Be sure the
room is adequately ventilated and the flue unobstruct-
ed.
6. Light the paper in the fireplace.
NEVER light or re-
kindle fireplace with kerosene, gasoline, or char-
coal lighter fluid; the results can be fatal.
7. Once the kindling is burning quickly, add several full-
length logs 3 in. (76mm) or 4 in. (102mm) in diameter.
Be careful not to smother the fire. Stack the pieces of
wood carefully; near enough to keep each other hot,
but far enough away from each other to allow ad-
equate air flow between them.
8. Adjust the Combustion Air Control; the more you close
down the control, (sliding left) the lower and slower
the fire will burn. The more you open the Air Control,
(sliding right) the more heat will be produced and the
faster the wood will burn.
As long as there are hot coals, repeating steps 7 and 8 will
maintain a continuous fire throughout the season.
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M. Starting a Fire
N. Burning Process
Fire requires 3 things to burn: fuel, air and heat. If heat is
robbed from the fireplace during the drying stage, the new
load of wood has reduced the chances for a good clean burn.
For this reason, it is always best to burn dry, seasoned fire-
wood. We do not advise burning unseasoned wood, however
if it happens, you must open the Combustion Air Control and
burn the fireplace at a high burn setting for a longer time to
start it burning.
Kindling or 1st stage:
The first stage of burning is called the kindling stage. In this
stage, the wood is heated to a temperature high enough to
evaporate the moisture which is present in all wood. The
wood will reach the boiling point of water (212°F) and will not
get any hotter until the water is evaporated. This process takes
heat from coals and tends to cool the fireplace.
