Got Earth Stove?

[S2man]

I bought an Earth Stove wood burning stove at an auction last weekend, model 105. It has air inlets for secondary burn, near the top of the firebox. But it seems like the flames would just shoot right up the flu. I think it is missing a baffle or plate below where the chimney pipe attaches. And there are brackets inside to which it probably mounted Does anyone have a stove like this, who can confirm my missing baffle theory, and perhaps give me some dimensions or a description? Thanks in advance, S2

[Greg Richardson]

If you could post a picture with the door open that may help.

Brackets? Are they round attached to side?
If so then that makes sense your baffle is missing.
If so you could go to a fireplace shop and order one.

[S2man]

Hey Greg, the brackets are kinda like a piece of small angle iron running the length of the stove, one along the back and one along the front top.

Further googling turned up an owner's manual in pdf format, but it was no help. The best I can do is that in the last years this stove was produced (late 80's), catalytic cumbustors where an option. Several sites still carry them. That fact, plus the secondary air inlets, makes me figure I am missing something; either a frame for the cat's or a baffle.

I'll fab up a baffle to redirect the flames along the stove box, instead of straight up the flue. I was just taking a long shot that someone here might have had one and could give me the low down.

[CarolAnn]

S2man-
There may be a baffle missing. My stove was not that brand, but it was a Grandpa Bear airtight from the 70's that did have a baffle to deflect the heat away from the pipe, so this was a feature in some stoves. There's a website where you can download a full list of replacement parts for the Earthstoves: http://woodheatstoves.com/lennox-wood-stove-replacement-parts-list-p-4292.html
Maybe if you look over a parts list, you'll be able to get dimensions that will help in making the part correctly.
(Note along the left side of this site that there are specific manuals that may also help.)

Here is a video that helps identify the internal parts of an earth stove:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmRIipGx7I&feature=related