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Shaver Furnace / Re: leaky shaver
« on: February 21, 2013, 01:21:50 PM »
i have to add water because of the overflow pipe that sticks out the side vents from the water jacket and that stupid access panel on top of the stove ,that is there for i'm not sure what reason ,vents steam from the stove.3 years ago i did research these stoves and the web. but at that time this site either was'nt up or i missed it. i could'nt really find any negative feedback about them. and the free heat machine people were from tennessee ,so i wanted a local dealer this time in case anything went wrong. well so much for that. he was as about much help as a pyromaniac at a house fire when i started having trouble. its made me so gun shy about these owb that i can't believe any dealer now. i ll weld on this one for a while or research and make my own damn stove. its sad that you can't trust sales people. i took a loan out for my first stove ,which i just paid off, and used profit sharing money to buy the shaver.like the song says"trust nobody ,don't be no fool, whatever happened to the golden rule?"

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Shaver Furnace / Re: leaky shaver
« on: February 21, 2013, 05:23:15 AM »
yes, i drain the damn thing every spring and refill in the fall. apparently that makes no differance.i add some more chemical at about the third time i add water. i'm tired of fighting with these people,thats all i did with the free heat machine people for months was argue. i ll just suck it up, take the thing apart in the spring and weld it up. and keep doing that until its completely usless. by the way ,i worked for a lumber mill for 13 years, and of those we had a taylor owb that he bought used to heat our shop. i tended that stove myself for at least 8 yrs. and i ve been working at the job i have now for 9 yrs. the man just bought a new owb beause the taylor started leaking. of all those years, i never put one drop of additive in that stove and i know for a fact neither did he, nor did the original owner. so thats 17 years on a taylor without any additive and a so called 1/2 inch thick shaver can't even make it 3 yrs ?

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a good friend of mine bought a cb 2 years ago after replacing a leaky 3year old owb. he's not going to be happy abount all the leak issues with cb. i myself have a 3 year old leaky shaver that they won't warranty

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Shaver Furnace / leaky shaver
« on: February 19, 2013, 05:23:12 AM »
hi everyone, i,m a newbieto the site. i bought a shaver 290 in oct. of 2009. this past dec it developed a leak.i put the proper amount of additive in it every year along with draining the stove and refilling it at the start of every season.shaver won't warranty the stove because i did'nt have the water tested.my arguement is that if you have to keep adding water to the stove every three weeks or so,what good are the test results. by the end of the heating season you've about replaced the total water content of the stove. this is the third owb i have had in 7 years. the previous 2 were free heat machines. the first one lasted two years before it leaked and they replaced that one. the 2nd one lasted 1 year before it leaked and they still honored the warranty and replaced it. they sent me another stove and i sold it a week after they dropped it off and bought the shaver because according to there web site ,its the best stove goin. and the dealer i bought it from told me "you'll never have trouble with this stove leaking. i ve been selling them for a long time and never had a call on a leak" well people in my opinion shaver stoves and there sales people are a bunch of crooks. and i'm done with owb ,could've bought alot of propane for over 11,000.00 in the past 7 years

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