Talking of sintering...

[brassmonkey001]

Thanks Alycidon - I'll be in touch soon.

 

I spoke to another chap at the show who had his own intersting technique for "overnighting".

 

pop in some green ash into the stove, open the vents to get it roaring for a while, then close right down.

 

In the morning (apparently) you have a charcoal and all the nasty creasote oils etc covering the inside of the firebox.

 

Spark it up with a bit of paper and a couple of bits of kindling and off it goes like a rocket - burning all the nasty stuff, cleaning the glass again and getting hot very quickly.

 

No opportunity for me to try this in my gas heated flat.

 

Has any body heard of or tried this method? It was late at night at the beer tent and I had had a few sherberts so, um .....

 

he did emphasise that this only work with green ash

 

Reminds me of the method my gran used to clear her chimney. IIRC she would stuff newspaper up the chimney and light it to burn all the soot off once a week. This is a very dim memory though, but I heard someone else mentioning this method fairly recently as well.