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The Best Way To Restore An Old, Rusted Wood-Burning Stove
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My brothers and I years ago came across an old wood-burning stove in the garage of my Grandfather, who had passed away. We were in the process of renovating his house and property, and finding the old wood stove was not greeted enthusiastically at first.
“Let’s load it up and junk it. We could probably get 20 bucks for the scrap price,” one of my brothers said.
I actually considered his suggestion because I had way too many other projects to think about, but my other brother held out.
“We might need this someday,” he said. “Besides, it was Grandpa’s.”
The result was that we spent some days and weekends over the summer restoring this old wood stove.
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This was a very basic wood-burning stove – sometimes referred to as a “boxwood” stove. It was cast iron and elongated, and was basically a firebox on legs with a flue at the back and a damper. My Grandfather used it in his garage in the winter while he tinkered around with stuff like chainsaws and sharpening axes and probably a few nights smoking cigars and just passing the time.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/how-to-2/the-best-way-to-restore-an-old-rusted-wood-burning-stove/
all that and no picture of how it actually turned out?? booooo
I was just going to say the same thing…where’s the before and AFTER shots?…L.
where ‘are’ I mean…;) L.