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Defiant
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1975 Non-Catalytic / Catalytic Woodburning Stove
30005220
Table of contents
Specifications ........................................................4
Installation .............................................................5
Clearance Charts.................................................14
Assembly .............................................................18
Operation .............................................................21
Draft Management ...............................................27
Maintenance ........................................................30
The Catalytic Element .........................................34
Replacement Parts ..............................................36
Warranty ..............................................................39
The Story of the Defiant
No wood-burning appliance, save for Ben Franklin’s Pennsylvania Fireplace, has a stronger heritage than the Ver-
mont Castings Defiant. Named for a 19th-century steamship, the original Vermont Castings Defiant Wood Stove came
to epitomize America’s resolve and independence during the Energy Crisis of the 1970s.
The year was 1975. With energy prices going through the roof, without an attractive or efficient wood stove to be
found anywhere, two entrepreneurs set out to create a stove that was both beautiful and highly functional. Finely
crafted from cast iron, the Defiant was the first wood stove to combine an artistically designed exterior with a methodi-
cally engineered interior, using new technologies for efficient combustion.
Americans purchased over a quarter-million Defiants, as they rediscovered the common sense of heating with wood,
a home-grown fuel with none of the political and economic entanglements of foreign oil.
Thirteen years later, in 1988, Vermont Castings ‘retired’ the Defiant, replacing it with modern wood-burners such as
the Encore. A decade later the Defiant was resurrected and updated with aesthetics and features that again led the
industry.
In 2010, the third generation of the Defiant maintains the product’s rich tradition by introducing the most advanced
wood-burning stove on the market. The quality and classic look that consumers have come to expect from Vermont
Castings is combined with the latest combustion technology, an innovative design that allows the stove to quickly be
converted to burn in either a catalytic or noncatalytic mode. In a sense, the Defiant Model 1975 has been 35 years in
the making.
Due to its significant role in American history, the original Defiant model is in the permanent collection of the Smithso-
nian Institution in our nation’s capitol. Each new purchase of the Defiant continues that proud history.
Warming Shelf
#0210 Classic Black
#0211 Biscuit
#0213 Ebony
#0214 Bordeaux
#0217 Brown Majolica
#3265* Outside Air Kit
#3180 Outside Air Adapter
#1907 Firescreen
#1860 6” x 12” Oval Starter Pipe
FK26 Fan Kit
#3190 Connector Pipe Heat Shield
A line of porcelain enamel stove pipe is available in
Biscuit, Bordeaux, Ebony, Brown Majolica colors.
*If you order #3265, you will also need #3180.
installation accessories
proposition 65 warning:
Fuels used in gas, wood-
burning or oil fired appliances, and the products of
combustion of such fuels, contain chemicals known to
the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects
and other reproductive harm.
California Health & Safety Code Sec. 25249.6
