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I would not cut into the stove. Try this first, take the whole stove By cutting into the cast iron this is a failure waiting to happen and then -- Roger Shoaf About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then > Thanks in advance. > PS For anyone who's curious, it's a very nice stove but it has a 'dead'
outside, get a blazing fire going and just burn off the plastic.
you either scrap the stove or are faced with a bitch to repair.
they come up with this striped stuff.
> 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).
> 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.