How do I cut a hole in a cast iron wood stove? - misc.consumers.house

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Roger Shoaf

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From: "Roger Shoaf" <sh...@nospamsyix.com>

Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:49:42 -0800

Local: Sat, Nov 18 2006 7:49 am

Subject: Re: How do I cut a hole in a cast iron wood stove?

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I would not cut into the stove. Try this first, take the whole stove
outside, get a blazing fire going and just burn off the plastic.

By cutting into the cast iron this is a failure waiting to happen and then
you either scrap the stove or are faced with a bitch to repair.

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.

"fork" <rbar...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1163790895.490538.113100@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

> I need to cut a rectangular hole in the side of my cast iron wood
> stove, about 3"x5". I was thinking to drill holes for the corners and
> then try to cut with a sawzall. I'm guessing the iron is about 1/4"
> thick. Think that will work? What kind of blade would I need? Any
> other suggestions? (I don't have a cutting torch or an angle grinder).

> Thanks in advance.

> PS For anyone who's curious, it's a very nice stove but it has a 'dead'
> airspace in the top that cannot be accessed except through a couple of
> narrow slits along the top. This space is not part of the fire box,
> I'm not sure why it's there at all... My three year old intuitively
> understood what those slits are for, he filled them with plastic mardi
> gras beads. I found out about it when we fired up the stove. Now I
> need to chip/burn/sandblast that space out.

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