[Public-List] Solid fuel stove - What to burn?

[Daniel Sternglass]

> Jim... What do you mean by solid fuel? Isobar came with a good sized 'pot
> bellied stove' sorta, which I've never used and has been stored in my
> garage attic. It has an ingenious design to fit in a fiddle on the port
> settee with a charlie noble stack through a removable scuttle in the 
> cabin
> top. It even has a cooktop. I've sometimes thought of trying it out, but
> I'm a fair weather sailor; winter sailing is not my dish. Besides, I'm 
> not
> sure what to burn in it. It was probably made before the days of packaged
> wood chips, which might work well. Otherwise ,I can't see keeping a stock
> of cordwood in the forepeak. A bag of coal is probably the most efficient
> but tough to find at your local marina. Can a wood stove burn coal
> efficiently or vice versa?
>
> Bob Kirk
> Isobar #181

Jim, Bob,

I have a similar "Fasco" heat stove in my 1966 A-30. I learned from the 
previous owner that (in 1986) that the thing to burn in those stoves at 
that time was the sheets of charcoal briquettes that you can buy that 
are made up with compressed cardboard. In my case, I only needed 2 or 3 
of those little "Brix" to generate quite a bit of heat. Haven't run it 
in 10-15 years, but those worked very well, also easy to light.

"Brix" don't seem to be made any more, though I thought I had seen 
something like that fairly recently. A Google search for 'self lighting 
charcoal' shows some options.

--Dan Sternglass
Watcher of the Skies, #201, 1966, Cayuga Lake, Ithaca, NY

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