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From: "Roger Shoaf" <sh...@nospamsyix.com>
Newsgroups: rec.woodworking,misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: How do I cut a hole in a cast iron wood stove?
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:49:42 -0800
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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
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> 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.
>