"Terry Coombs" wrote in message
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Jim Wilkins wrote:

Do you think those barrel stoves would last longer if the burn area
was lined with castable? refractory or firebrick ? Our stove has
bricks in the lower part , and the firebox is made of relatively
light sheet metal . There are areas above the brick where it has
gotten hot enough to deform the metal , we don't fill
it up too much because of that .
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Snag

I know only how my own stove works. Over many years its cast iron
inner side baffles deteriorated and I patched them with first ~16
gauge steel which burned through, then scrap stainless which has held
up well.

Except where the preheated secondary air enters the rest of the
interior is starved of oxygen and even the original bolts that hold it
together while partly assembled are still in good condition. I don't
trust them and have stored my welding firebricks under the stove so if
a leg fails it won't fall.
jsw