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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> Are you going up yourself to look at this stove?

No I am going to have to have a friend do the final look over for me.
That's not good, but I may go with it.

>
> Oven could be a bit iffy, depending on how it cleans up.  Likely the
> thermometer in the door doesn't work/work well (they have another
> inside) but those can often be replaced, I did one once and I think it
> was $20.  In any case if they've just been using it for heat the oven
> heat path is likely to be totally clogged up with soot, take a soot
> cleaner along if you have one, so you can clean it out and then throw
> the damper to be sure it heats.  A really bright flashlight will show up
> many cracks, used from inside out.

Thanks, that is a good tip for finding cracks. The owner tells me that
she uses the oven and that it heats, yes the original thermometer does
not work.

> And take plenty of wood along to
> cushion its trip home, nothing more sickening that holding two pieces of
> cast iron that used to be one (I just replaced a broken stove part, can
> you tell?).
>

The stove comes apart in pieces for transport. Just use some split
wood as a cushion?


I'm getting a good feeling about this stove.

Rob - Va