Fisher Woodstove Question

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Can anyone tell me where I can find an owner's manual for a Fisher Woodstove. I have one in the basement of the house we bought last year, and it's got all sorts of bells and whistles. I'd like to know what all the shiny knobs are for. Thanks.

-- Julie (rjbk@together.net), October 01, 2001

Answers

Can't help you with a maual but are the knobs on the front of the doors?? If so...they very well could be for the draft...or allowing so much air in the stove at a time. I would ask around and see if you can find someone that has and is using one and get your questions answered. Just noticed another reader is looking to get a Fisher Stove. Maybe they could help with a manual. Do they still make these stoves ?? good Luck !!

-- Helena (windyacs@npacc.net), October 02, 2001.

I have a Fisher woodstove question also My fisher has a problem with it clogging the fireplace screen more often than it should having burnt wood in many types of stoves the obvious answer comes to mind, use less paper and better wood I have done just that but I still need to go on the roof more often than I should! So here is what I am thinking and was wondering if anyone has experience with the built in damper being clogged? if this is the case how do you get in to clean it? do you tear off the expanded metal? or is there another approach to this which may be covered by ashes?

-- mkapples (working4you@consultant.com), October 08, 2001.

I don't know where to get a manual for the Fisher, but we had a Fisher for years, (we have one now, also). In answer to the clean-out question, before I started taking apart dampers, may I suggest a couple of problems we had when we first started with Fishers. One is to make sure your chimney is high enough. Our first chimney was not, and apparently, blew smoke back down (not enough for the stove to smoke) and caused more build-up then normal. The other issue to check would be any 90 degree bends in your pipe. If you have any real sharp bends, you can get a build-up on the bottom of the elbow, smoke is somewhat restricted and smoke cools off before it gets to the top of the chimney, and you don't get a good burn-up. This can also occur if you always have a "sleeping" fire. Every once in a while, it needs to crank a little to burn off any build-up. I don't think this is just a Fisher stove problem, I think it applies to all types of wood stoves.

-- Beth Decker (oroblanco@yahoo.com), October 23, 2001.

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