There it is folks, fire!! I spent a lot of the weekend fixing holes, cleaning out and replacing bolts that had gone missing over the years, but yesterday I decided it was time to try a real fire and see what was what. She heated up just fine. A little smokey in the beginning, but when she heated up all the smoke went away. I figure some of it was crud burning off from all the years it sat idle.
I put a small pot of water on the stove and it made it to rolling boil in about 4 minutes!! The oven reached 3 on the needle which was about 350 degrees.
All in all very happy with everything. Now I have to try and get a tile floor down in the house before it gets real cold and the snow starts to fly.
Hey, Hans. Looking good! I've read each post on the day that they are posted, but I had been doing it on my laptop. Tonight, I'm looking at the pics on the desktop, which has a bigger monitor, and I've got a question.
ReplyDeleteDoes the middle front lid sit quite a bit lower than the rest of the cooktop, or is that just an optical illusion in the photograph?
Yes it does, good eye there buddy!! It is not an original lid. I this the same diameter but not the same thickness. I am looking around for an extra set of lids as a few of these are burned through in the lift hole and I had to fill them in with stove cement.
ReplyDeleteIf you could post the diameter of the lid and a picture of the underside of one of the originals, I can keep my eye out. There is an antique store near here that has several loose stove lids for sale.
DeleteWill do. The Home Comfort lids have a very distinct lifter hole. They also have the part number on the back but it changed every year!
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