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> >For running water? It's not for gas. Anyway, that stove did
> not click for me. Tiny fire box.
> 

Looking at the stover from the front, in the upper left hand corner, the edge 
of the firebox, the two threaded pipe fittings would be the water jacket.  
You can use it or ignore it.  It's a passive system that circulates the water 
slowly by the hot water displacing the cooler water in the thank.  
How-some-ever, it it isn't done properly, the tank could blow.  The ten 
gallon reservoir 
gives us plenty of hot water without the complication and caution of the 
water 
jacket.  Don't ever touch those pipes, they are HOT.

My grandmother had a Majestic as well.  When I was a small child, the firebox 
looked enormous.  But when I looked at this one, and others we visited, I 
said, much as you, "You've got to be kidding!  Why did they make such a tiny 
firebox??"

But in actual practice it's no problem.  Once the damper is closed, the 
cooking surface heats by drawing the smoke and gasses through the small space 
between the cooktop and the oven.  If the firebox were much larger, there 
would 
have to be a hell of a fire in there to get really hot smoke under the 
cooktop.  
As it is, with the small firebox, a few twigs gives you a hot cook surface in 
a quick hurry.  In cooking a big and complicated meal, I may have to toss 
another piece of wood in the box one or two times before I'm done.

Having said that, if I had two similar cookstoves to choose from and one had 
the size firebox that mine has and one twice that size, all other things 
being 
equal I'd choose the larger firebox.  But otherwise it wouldn't be a deal 
breaker.

James