Tentipi Eldfell stove assistance needed...

[Squidders]

So my stove arrived a week or so ago and today was my first chance to fire it up in the garden and burn off any oil or chemicals on it prior to using it in my tent.

I'm a bit confused about the hanging arrangement for the heat shield though... there is a bit of chain and some sort of circular plate but I have no idea what to do with them... Has anyone got one of these stoves and worked it all out?

What's it all about eh?

 

[helixpteron]

Excellent, a tent stove thread!

Hope to see some great photo's and a review, can't help with your query, sorry.

 

[Thoth]

I'd drafted this before I saw this thread - Does anybody have any experiance of using the Tentipi woodburner? The newer 'Edfell' model, not the older upright version I mean. Imagining that money was no obect & I'd won the lottery (which I haven't by the way) would I actually want one of these? If I did would I want the 'comfort' or the 'pro' (stainless-steel) model? How do they perform? Do they fall to bits? Should I just light a ground fire, or use a fire-box, instead? - Have you sorted it out yet Squidders? Got any advice for me?

 

[Crowe]

Not having seen it, I would imagine It's some sort of deflector for radiated chimney heat
and would be fixed about four inches from the roof fabric.
Crowe

 

[salad]

Hello there

I had the same problem, tentipi provide a video clip of how to set it up. I have a copy on a usb key that you can have if you can not find the vid on the web.

Basicly what you do is asemble the flu then slide over the cage with the fixed plate facing down towards the stove. The loose round plate pops over the top end and goes just inside the top of the cage.

Then you stick on the spark arrester(small cage) and attach the big cage to it with the chain. This enables you to move the main cage up and down to make it right for your tent.

Tip. if you brought the cheaper edfell stove like I did instead of using stove polish to keep the rust at bay pop down to your local hardware store and get a couple of cans of stove paint.This will save you loads of time having to repolish your stove and looks good.

 

[Angus Og]

http://www.nordicoutdoor.co.uk/tentipivideo.html

fifth video down

 

[druid23]

for those of you who did buy the plain steel version of the Eldfell Stove (the so-called 'comfort' version), did it come complete with a wooden box to store it in?

 

[sgt mad]

I am thinking of buying one of the Eldfell pro 9 stoves for my Tentipi Saffir 9 although they are a bit pricey £719-34. I actually fancy the Four dogs Ultra lite stove 11 but the extra flue kit and the import tax push it to nearly £1000 which is a bit steep. Are there any viable alternatives out there? The flue system seems to be the part that most other systems need to have a bit added to to fit the tipi and I am not keen to impovise incase of fire.