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3.3 NOTES ABOUT FIRST FIRING The fresh paint on your stove needs to be cured to preserve its quality. Once the fuel load is properly ignited, only burn small fires in your stove for the first four hours of operation. Never open the air control more than necessary to achieve a medium burn rate. Make sure that there is enough air circulation while curing the stove. Open one or more windows. The odours can be smelled during the 3 or 4 first fires. Never start your stove outside. 3.4 LIGHTING A FIRE • Place enough crumpled balls of newspaper or other paper into the stove to cover thbottom of the firebox. • Place small and dry kindling on the crumpled paper. • Place larger and dry kindling on top of the small kindling. • Open the air intake control fully. • Light a fire at the bottom of the crumpled paper and close the door. If the fire tends to go out momentarily, hold the door slightly ajar to activate the fire. As soon as the fire catches hold, close the door. • Ideally the large kindling should be burned until a thick bed of red embers is obtained. At that point, add cord wood fuel and continue to operate the draft control wide open until the fire is well established. Once the firebox is hot, the air control can be partially closed. After 30 minutes to one hour, you can close the air control completely. In order to have the best indication of when you should close the air control completely to operate your stove the most efficiently, use a chimney (flue) thermometer. If you are using a probe thermometer, you can close the air control completely when the temperature on the thermometer reaches 900oF (482oC). If you are using a magnetic thermometer , you can close the air control completely when the temperature on the thermometer reaches 475oF (246oC). Closing the air control down too soon will lower combustion efficiency and may cause the fire to die out. Over a period of time, it may also result in creosote build-up in the chimney (which could lead a chimney fire). 3.5 MAINTAINING THE FIRE Once the wood has been consumed (or partially consumed) and you have obtained a good bed of embers, you should reload the unit. In order to do so, open the air control to its maximum for approximately 15 seconds prior to opening the stove door. Then, proceed by opening the door very slowly. Open it by 2” to 4” (52 to 104 mm) for 10 to 15 seconds before opening it completely. This procedure will increase the draft and thus eliminate the smoke which is stagnant in a state of slow combustion in the stove. Then, bring the red embers to the front of the stove and reload the unit. Depending on the type of wood you burn and the strength of the draft in your flue, you may have to leave the air control open to its maximum for more than 15 seconds to avoid smoke spillage before you reload the stove. Your Drolet stove will work best if a thick bed of hot embers is maintained in the bottom of the firebox, and a minimum of two large pieces of seasoned fuel are added. Combustion efficiency is largely related to establishing a hot ember bed, and hot firebox temperatures. The quicker the stove and chimney (flue) get up to normal operating temperatures, the better. A small intense fire is preferred to a large smouldering fire, both to improve combustion efficiency and to reduce the amount of creosote build-up. The best performance will be obtained by adding relatively small amounts of fuel to a well established ember bed, and then operating with the air inlet control open long enough to achieve a hot fire. The wood should be placed with air in between individual pieces. Use a poker to make an air channel in the embers below the wood. This will allow air to flow under the wood for a more efficient burn. 3.6 FAN (BLOWER) OPERATION If you have purchased and installed and optional fan (blower), allow the stove to reach operating temperature (approximately one hour), before turning on the fan. The increased airflow from the fan will cool the firebox and affect the start-up combustion efficiency if the fan is turned on too quick. CAUTION: ENSURE THAT THE FAN’S POWER CORD IS NOT IN CONTACT WITH ANY SURFACE OF THE TTOVE TO PREVENT ELECTRICAL SHOCK OR FIRE DAMAGE. DO NOT RUN THE POWER CORD BENEATH THE STOVE. SECTION 4.0 MAINTENANCE 4.1 CLEANING AND PAINTING YOUR STOVE Clean the stove frequently so that soot, ash, and creosote do not accumulate. Do not attempt to clean the stove when the unit is hot. Special care must be taken with gold plated surfaces in order to maintain the finish at its original brilliance. Do not use an abrasive cleaner which will scratch the paint or plated finish. Use only a soft and clean damp cloth. If the paint becomes scratched or damaged, it is possible to give your wood stove a brand new look, by repainting it with a 650oC heat resistant paint. For this purpose, simply scrub the surface to be repainted with fine sand paper, clean it properly, and apply thin coats (2) of paint successively. To retrieve the original finish...