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[AirForcePOL]

Hi all,
I have had my Hardy H2 up and running for a little over a week now and everything is going good.  There is only one thing that I need to fix.  The last couple of times I have loaded my stove the fire rope has came loose when I open the door.  It is caused my creosote building up around the rope and makes it stick when I open the door causing the rope to stay stuck to the opening and it comes out of the channel when I open the door.  The rope was brand new when I first lit up the stove so I would really hate to replace the whole thing.  Is there any way to fix this? Can I just pull the rope out and put some more silicone in there and close it back up? I try to clean the creosote off of the rope and door opening as best as I can but the rope just isnt sticking in the channel like it should.  Thanks!

[jerkash]

Get some high temp automobile caulking and put behind it.  Mine did the same thing.  It came lose in a couple of places and I just put the caulking behind it and shut the door and fixed it!

[AirForcePOL]

ok thanks! I still have some of the adhesive that I installed it with.  Maybe I'll just try to add some of that behind it.  I'm guessing that I just didn't put enough on it when I put the rope in.  I just didn't know if I could put that on and then close the door right away.  I guess that's my only option unless I want to let the fire go out which I don't want to do. 

[jerkash]

I did mine while it was hot and it worked fine. 

[MattyNH]

Congrats on your new boiler!..I don't know if I would be putting auto calking behind the door rope..That would be a bitch to change if you ever had to..Id say from experience with the door gasket sticking is that your burning wet/green wood and the boiler its not running enough..Been there done that.

[AirForcePOL]

Thanks Matty! I'm pretty sure the wood I am burning is dry enough.  I did just bring home a truck load of hickory that I split this weekend and it is burning better than what I was using before and it just smells soooo good! I put more of the silicone behind the rope and it holds it in there but it is still sticking.  I'm going to take a wire brush to everything tonight and get it cleaned up really good. 

[powerstroke]

Airforce, I see you live in Athens.  I am right across Gudgel Bridge on Boy Scout Trail.  Small world eh?

[AirForcePOL]

It is a small world! I live up by the Middletown/Elkhart area right off of Logan County line rd.  I Grew up in Sherman but have lived out here for a little over three years now.  I'm sure we know a lot of the same people!