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Default Alaska Coal Stove Recalls

Can someone tell me how I can find out if there has been any recalls filed on any of the Alaska Coal Stoves.

Inside of my coal stove are 3, little nubs that help hold up the grate. The nub in the back has broken off with a clean break and is gone. Of course if you try to shake the shaker the grate tilts and the entire bed, of hot coals, fall to the floor . . . End of fire-bed and heat.

I call asking for a repair appointment and a week later called again to tell them the gentlemen that lives in the house is home from his rehabilitation (from his hospital) stay at the nursing home, and why did not i receive the call back from them on the appointment. I willnot go into what happened after that, nor after my call to the Alaska "manufacturer" in Bloomsburg, pa, but, what with the ridiculousness of the two conversations, I realized there was something BIG going on and that I was in trouble. I always find it very difficult to have an adult conversation with good people that are bad liars.

Thereis a little, old (83), man spending his first morning home from the nursing home in a cold, lonely house. I sure hope his rehab. at the nursing home holds up better than the Alaska coal furnace with one, little, broken nub (there are 3 of them), which helps to holds up the grate, a little nub that cannot be repaired, rigged, nor replaced.

I think the back nubs, that break, on these furnaces, also have some weight to bear, or interplay, for the end of the shaker. In other words theyare possibly under more stress than the ones on either side of the wall of the furnace, but are of the same size, weight etc. as the little, side nubs. I feel, this, then, is a defect and there should be a recall, and the buyer shouldnot have to bear the losses involved, lack of heat, hardship, expense of the expensive "fix", not to mention the deceit and loss of time (considering the weather) which is actually an entire re-design of the entire grate system, costing bigtime.

Seems a hunk of iron should last a lot longer than 10 years.
 
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