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[d conover]

I saw my H2 smoke like that one time,  we had a yard full of hickory nuts and I got the bright idea to dump a few 5 gallon buckets of them in the furnace....

[hondaracer2oo4]

JCC, there is a Hardy dealer that sells a 6 inch auger bit to go in the flue of the h2. He claims in greatly improves efficiency. I think he charge $100 for it? You could get this http://www.harborfreight.com/6-inch-diameter-auger-bit-95973.html . Half the price and should work just fine. Might help you out a lot.

[slimjim]

Oh come on a hundred bucks! buy it from the guy that designed it, isnt that what it's all about?

[f150bft]

Had a new flame buster made for mine at a local metal fab shop. He made it fro 1/8 in thick 316 grade stainless and said it should never burn out. The old one was burnt out in the middle and I really didn't think the stove even had one till I got to cleaning on it(used stove) before the install.

[jcc273]

JCC, there is a Hardy dealer that sells a 6 inch auger bit to go in the flue of the h2. He claims in greatly improves efficiency. I think he charge $100 for it? You could get this http://www.harborfreight.com/6-inch-diameter-auger-bit-95973.html . Half the price and should work just fine. Might help you out a lot.

Yeah i have seen that guys youtube video and heard about them in previous posts.  i have been meaning to get me one, but it just hasn't made it up my priority list yet since i already don't burn that much wood and its simple just to cut more wood haha.  maybe this summer : )

[f150bft]

[quote Take a piece of 8 inch black single wall flue pipe, cut it off so that it dropped 2 inches below the level of the two bars that the flame buster sits on. Then I took tin snips and cut 1 inch cuts down all the way around one end of the flue pipe and bent them inward so that they would fit into the flue opening. I think the flue opening is something like 7 3/4". I used an old piece that had the seams locked togeather for a long time. If you used a new piece you could try not locking the seam since they seem to have a lot of outward spring before you lock the seams.
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  It looks like you put the extended piece in from the bottom. Is that correct? How much of a pain in the a$$ was that to do?

[hondaracer2oo4]

Yes I did put it in from the bottom. It was quite a pain to do because of the fact of having to play with the bent tabs until they fit right. Probably took me 30 minutes of fussing with it to get it to slip in. The rest was easy. Once it was up I marked with a sharpy the top of the bars for the flame buster, pulled it out and drilled it. Reinstalled and slipped the threaded rod through to hold it in place.

[f150bft]

I like the idea. How long of a piece did you wind up using?