R
Isle Royale Wood Stove
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS (Cont’d)
CAUTION: Before lighting your first fire in the stove: 1) make certain that the baffle is correctly posi- tioned. It should be resting against the rear support; 2) Follow instructions on page 22 for cleaning plated surfaces, and; 3) Remove all labels from glass.front.
CAUTION: Never use gasoline,
BUILDING A FIRE
There are many ways to build a fire. The basic principle is to light
1. Place several wads of crushed paper on the firebox floor. Heating the flue with slightly crumpled newspaper before adding kindling keeps smoke to a minimum.
2.Lay small dry sticks of kindling on top of the paper.
3.Open
4.Make sure that no matches or other combustibles are in the immediate area of the stove. Be sure the room is adequately ventilated and the flue unobstructed.
5.Light the paper in the stove. NEVER light or rekindle stove with kerosene, gasoline, or charcoal lighter fluid; the results can be fatal.
6.Once the kindling is burning quickly, add several
7.When ready to reload the stove, add more logs. Large logs burn slowly, holding a fire longer. Small logs burn fast and hot, giving quick heat.
8.Adjust the
9.As long as there are hot coals, repeating steps 7 and 8 will maintain a continuous fire throughout the season.
NOTE: The special high temperature paint that your stove is finished with will cure as your stove heats. You will notice an odor and perhaps see some vapor rise from the stove surface; this is normal. We recommend that you open a window until the odor dissipates and paint is cured.
NOTE: Stove should be run full open for 15 minutes a day to keep air passages clean.
WARNING! DO NOT LEAVE THE FIRE UNATTENDED WHEN THE
DOOR IS UNLATCHED. UNSTABLE FIREWOOD COULD FALL OUT
OF THE FIREBOX CREATING A FIRE HAZARD TO YOUR HOME.
OPACITY
This helps to determine how cleanly your stove is burning. Opacity is measured in percent; 100% opacity is when an object is totally obscured by the smoke column from a chimney, and 0% opacity means that no smoke column can be seen. As you become familiar with your stove, you should periodically check the opacity of the smoke column emitted from your chimney. This will allow you to know how to burn your stove as nearly
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