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Even if being so, the Franklin has enough internal space to introduce 1-2 baffles inside in order not let the flame or sparks provoke a brand.

Mike, Being unprepared, I cannot think of the refractory brick so far. At the moment, I have 3 thin metallic screens placed at a distance of some inches on the 3 sides of the stove to reflect back the radiation made by the stove in order to keep safe the things around. I wonder, but the screens remain always chilly.

Thanks, Mike, for the idea to burn hotter and more rapidly. However, the specified power of the stove is 12 kW. To make it warm, one would need to burn at least 4 briquttes at a time. However, the grate takes 6-8 pieces at large. That implies that a go would have 10-16 pieces per night, which is right my case. The problem is: How could I attain any material / financial economy with this stove? My idea of improvement would be as follows. The stove doors have 2 air intakes sized about 1 inch x 1 inch. The one serves to deliver air for combustion in the bottom of the stove. The other could be used for introducing and fixing an S-like air duct to deliver preheated air for secondary combustion above the flame; the duct can be made of stainless steel. Secondary combustion would rise the temperature inside of the stove while the flue to the chimney could be damped. Sealing the doors would be assistent to the above process. I am mistaken, am I not? Where, then? Alex

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION TO THE STATES! ========================================================= I'm tremendously happy that the thread with experts survived over a year! I have got nearly the same Franklin stove as Jeff's, though of an infernal Chinese quality, at least as far as its poor (unwanted) door clearances are concerned. The Chinese have made them on the contrary more apparent rather than rope sealed, probably due to the more strict requirements for pollutions and better combustion. Also, I can see some appliances inside of Jeff's stove, which are not provided in my stove. I can't guess, what they are for. Please, do explain it. I have made this choice because this stove delivers the medically important radiant warmth through radiation, unlike all modern wood stoves delivering warm air only. However, the costs of fuel in urban areas have dramatically raised within the last years. So, the costs let me be thinking how to improve the efficiency of my stove if not to conceive constructing a more efficient one -- for my particular needs and requirements. I've got some experinces with this stove. Now, I could say that the normal wood consumption is some 15-20 pounds of briquettes (quite common in Europe now) -- 8 to 16 pieces per night. - I've been told that with a modern stove construction the wood consumption would be much less than that. The hume evacuation pipe has a length of some 10 feet and the diameter of some 8 inches, which should provide nearly the same radiant surface, as that of the stove itself. So, I would like to know, whether I would really get any real improvement in consumption of wood if I would introduce a tube for air and oxygen supply and secondary combustion, and make the doors rope sealed? Thanks.