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[MyLeakyWoodDoctor]

I have found that High Temperature Five Minute Epoxy Putty works well sealing the perforations in my stainless Steel Wood Doctor furnace.  The trick though is to apply the Putty using a reversed cabinet clamp so that you can get enough pressure to seal off the water leak and at the same time get good adhesion to the metal.

You can't just push this Putty on with your hand and expect it to hold!  The first ones I just pushed on leaked and pealed off again!

Cut a square of memory foam and place it over the Putty against the boiler and then push the memory foam almost flat against the side of the boiler until the Putty hardens.  After, just peal it off and you're ready to apply another patch.

My Wood Doctor boiler is littered with patches now and they seem like they might hold till spring now that I have applied them with pressure!  Hopefully this will get me threw, this, only my forth heating season! 

Who knew stainless steel could corrode threw like this!!

[MyLeakyWoodDoctor]

Hey,

This is a shot of those holes threw the stainless steel at the back of my Wood Doctor!

[MyLeakyWoodDoctor]

Back again,

This is a shot of the pine plugs I had to stick in my first stainless Steel Wood Doctor.  This one starting leaking in only it's second heating season!!

Believe me when I say, it wasn't much fun stripping all the panels off in the dead cold of winter and trying to stop the leaks with a bunch of little pine plugs that kept snapping off as I tried to tap them in reaching a way in under the boiler belly!!!

[eco-one]

ive never seen 409 stainless rust out. are you sure its stainless?only way you can tell if it is stainless is too take a tourch and try cutting tru it.
the only way you can test stainless

[MyLeakyWoodDoctor]

Well that's a good question and I'm not a dealer or a supplier so I can't really say for sure!

But it doesn't really matter if it is or isn't . . . what matters is, it's supposed to be and is warrantied as such!

It would be nice to see some replies to my posts from actual dealiers or suppliers, wouldn't it!

Maybe they never heard of this site??

Very frustrated,

Leaky

[piper]

see if a magnet will stick to it . it shouldn't 

[eco-one]

you have too remember some stainless you can put a magnet too ,400 series stainless you can put a magnet too

[MyLeakyWoodDoctor]

Hey, I'm not trying to divert you to another forum, but I had to take my Wood Doctor apart again to do some more patching and I put this info up on another forum I joined.

It's easier to point you there than try to dup it all here!

I hope nobody mines . . . I have also pointed that forum to this forum cause I have alot of stuff here I would like to share!


       http://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/10605/P30/

Leaky   

[ouch]

Just a side note about the wonders of 409 ultra form stainless ( what the global Hydronics furnaces are made out of)
it is nothing more than the cheap stainless mufflers are made out of.

http://www.aksteel.com/pdf/markets_products/stainless/ferritic/409_Ultra_Form_Bulletin.pdf

I was told that this 409 UF was some sort of suoerior stainless steel. I had no reason not to believe them..

by the way, my GH1000 leaked along the outside of the weld on the back of the furnace..
it had 3 holes by the end of the second season.

[MyLeakyWoodDoctor]

Oh My!

I knew I wasn't dreaming! I knew I wasn't alone!

Sorry to hear about your troubles . . .  nice picture though!

I thought I was looking at my furnace!

Put something up on Hearth.com too!  Spread the word!

Later,

Leaky 

[John D]

Stainless steel belongs in Kitchens,not outdoor wood furnaces.I would not replace it with another stainless model. I hope you can get thru the winter with it now.

[MyLeakyWoodDoctor]

Hey,

Wood Doctor sent me a welder!

see my welding post!

Leaky