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Questions & Answers
How and when do I add more fuel?
This is a good question. As you probably know, the front chamber has the smoke and gases
trapped and is continuously re-burning it. Your SEDORE stove needs very little attention. Most
owners check their stove in the morning, after work, and before going to bed. It is up to you if you
would like to "top-up" your stove whenever you are near it, or if you want to wait until you have
burned your load of fuel. Just follow the reloading procedure for clearing the front chamber of
gases and smoke, and go ahead and add fuel whenever you want.
If you have burned down to a bed of coals, pile these coals up under the baffle, with your hoe-
poker, blocking the exit, and add the new fuel to the front of the coals. Go ahead and fill your
stove up, open draft bar fully for awhile, and if it doesn't seem to catch well, you may have burned
down a little too low. In this case, you will have to bring it up to stack temperature by standing the
poker on the floor in front of the stove and propping the lid up with it, the same as in the starting
instructions. When stack temperature has reached 550F, take poker out and let down. As in the
starting instructions, don't close the draft bar down until the stack temperature has dropped 50
degrees.
How do I know if I’m giving the stove too much air?
When your stack temperature is 150-200°F, the temperature on the lower side of your stove will
be running somewhere between 400-800°F, which is a good burning temperature.
If your stack temperature is above 200F, simply close the draft bar a little. If your stack tempera-
ture drops down to 100F or less, open your draft a little until you are running fairly steadily be-
tween 150-200F.
Remember, the only time, with the SEDORE stove that your stovepipes can get hot is if you are
giving it too much air for the fuel you are burning, or when you raise the lid. Each time you raise
the lid (ie. to refuel) your stack temperature will rise. This is normal and nothing to worry about.
When you close the lid, this temperature will fall back down in a minute or so.
How do I prevent smoke from entering the room when I lift the lid?
Smoke will definitely come into the room if you just lift the lid up. What you must do is change the
order of the draft in the front chamber. This is easy to do by following these three simple steps:
1. Open the draft bar completely.
2 Crack the lid about 1/2”. Count to ten slowly (this allows the draft to suck the smoke out of the
burning chamber and up the chimney).
3. Now, open the lid up the rest of the way very slowly, so you don't cause a suction that will pull
the smoke back.
These three simple steps will allow you to clear the burning chamber of smoke and allow you to
open the lid whenever you want.