Unknown stove /help

[stewie1046]

Can anyone help with this- just moved into an old derelict house in the south lakes- anyone know what this make model is? Any good. What is the dial devise on the side? Looks broken as a loose wire is coming out of it ? Any help appreciated . Says something about ‘ Firecast- with a Derby address- and a lot of German writing???. Stew

[spudulike]

Vermont Castings Explorer or so Google tells me!

A little rare I think.

[peatff]

It looks like it's a fireplace insert not an actual stove. Belper is only about 8 miles from where we live but I never heard of Firecast.

[Alycidon]

There is now an app where you can put a pic in and it finds the nearest match to it.   My kids have used it,

 

The area below the grate makes me think its a gas stove not wood burning,   no woodburner will have electrics within the firebox.  No mains gas,  in that case it could be LPG,    the wheel on the LH edge with numbers on,  thats for gas supply.

 

If the surround around the edges of the opening is wood then please remove before lighting the stove,   otherwise the stove will set it alight,

 

Have it checked by a Gassafe engineer and capped off away from the opening,  then open the fireplace up and put a new freestanding wood burner in.

 

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Edited May 30, 2023 by Alycidon

[openspaceman]

I was thinking the copper may be a  tube rather than wire, a capillary tube controlling the airflow via a flap. The dial setting the thermostat.

 

I had a similar dial which set a air flap but it was operated by a bimetal spring, on a Franco Belge log burner.

[Alycidon]

If that were the case then how would the ash be removed.   I used to be Franco Belge stove dealer many years ago,  dont recall what you describe but I could be wrong. 

 

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[openspaceman]

6 hours ago, Alycidon said:

dont recall what you describe but I could be wrong. 

You are probably right, it was likely the coal burner that was there before I got the wood burner, principle was as described though, long time ago.