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We had a bit of a break in the rain, so I decided to tackle the
job of sealing up the wood burning stove pipe.
The first task was to trim the flashing to a small circle
instead of the usual large rectangle made for shingled roofs.
I used a pair of tin snips to modify the flashing. It
was really a pain in the neck to cut a nice circle until I
noticed that I had the tin snips upside down... It got a
lot easier after that.
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I put a bead of high temperature silicone sealant around the
ring and attached it to the roof with about a dozen or so self
drilling sheet metal screws. The silicone squeezed out of
the edges of the flashing on all sides, so I did a little clean
up.
I removed excess silicone sealant and went over the
galvanized sheet metal with acetone so I could prime everything
for painting later.
I think it looks pretty good and I doubt that it will leak in
my lifetime anyway...
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Becky and I also picked up the new propane tanks that will fit
under the bus.
I got them all hooked up and tried to get the forced air
heater lit... It took me about 20 minutes of fiddling with
it to finally get the pilot going. Then I set the
thermostat at around 70 degrees - The blower ran for about 2
seconds and then stopped along with the gas to the
heater.
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I fiddled with the heater for about 1/2 hour trying to fix it
before I finally decided that it just wasn't worth the hassle
anymore. I ended up pulling it out of the bus and adding
it to the pile of garbage headed for the dump.
I was never really happy with the forced air heater.
The motor was beginning to whine really bad and replacing it was
going to be $90.00 + a couple hours of work, so I made the
decision to not waste my money or time on it any longer.
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We picked up a "Mr Heater" which I am very happy with
so far. It puts out quite a bit of heat and is portable so
I can put it wherever we need some extra heat.
While I was working on the stove pipe, it was keeping the
front of the bus nice and warm even though it was around 50
degrees outside.
I think we'll end up getting one more of these heaters.
They work both on the small 1lb bottles and larger 20lb
size. I like the idea of being able to heat wherever we
need to for now. Once we have a more efficient wood stove
with a blower we'll use the portable one for spot heating, but
most likely rely on the wood stove for primary heating now...
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With the heater out of the way we went to work on the support
for the bottom shelf for the kitchen cabinets. I had to do
some creative work to get the intake and exhaust ducts for the
bus AC routed to where I wanted them.
Tomorrow I think we'll be able to finish the lower cabinets
in the kitchen and possibly finish up the bathroom cabinet too.
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