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General Discussion => Any and Every Thing => Topic started by: Riverrat on October 14, 2017, 10:46:23 pm

Title: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: Riverrat on October 14, 2017, 10:46:23 pm: As many know I have gotten into collecting antique cookware mainly waffle irons. I recently went to look at some Iron and the old guy had what he said was a barracks stove out in the barn. I went out took a look the price was right and it was 100 percent complete. So rat said "Challenge accepted to restore". I tore it down put it through the Electrolysis tank piece by piece . Then resembled after scrubbing to bare iron with stainless scrubby and fine wire brush finished with using stove polish and hand buffed. No sandblasting or electric tools used. These was used to Heat the Army Barracks late into WW1 through the Korean war when the government started to replace and surplus oout. They could burn coal or wood, I wish it could talk and tell some of the stories told while GI's warmed themselves around the fire. Wife wasn't thrilled when I brought it home and said it was going away and you can see why in the first pic. After I finished she has it displayed in the living room and its not going anywhere as it is a fine piece with some history to it.
(https://s1.postimg.cc/26dsfmrror/stove_before.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/26dsfmrror/)

(https://s1.postimg.cc/13e34qxnjf/stove_done.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/13e34qxnjf/)
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: Some Day on October 15, 2017, 01:42:53 am: What size cast iron skillet fits the opening on the stove?
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: Perry on October 15, 2017, 06:50:10 am: Good score. Always nice to see a piece of history saved and brought back to life.
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: Bakersdozen on October 15, 2017, 10:22:54 am: :goodjob: :eusa_clap:

That looks like a wood stove used in the movie Stalag 13!
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: Riverrat on October 15, 2017, 01:35:58 pm: Quote from: Some Day on October 15, 2017, 01:42:53 am
What size cast iron skillet fits the opening on the stove?
Its a 7 inch diameter stove eye which would use a no 7 skillet
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: Riverrat on October 15, 2017, 01:44:32 pm: Quote from: Bakersdozen on October 15, 2017, 10:22:54 am
:goodjob: :eusa_clap:

That looks like a wood stove used in the movie Stalag 13!

now I'm going to have to watch the movie ;D
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: Perry on October 15, 2017, 05:16:22 pm: I remember as a youngster hitching a ride on a train to a work site and riding in the caboose. It had 2 guys working in it that cooked breakfast on a similar style stove.
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: Green bee on October 15, 2017, 09:52:14 pm: Riverrat how does it vent the smoke, I thought that’s what the hole on top was for.
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: Riverrat on October 16, 2017, 08:42:51 pm: Quote from: Green bee on October 15, 2017, 09:52:14 pm
Riverrat how does it vent the smoke, I thought that’s what the hole on top was for.

Thats correct. This one is setting in the living room for show. We use a fisher better control over the heat with a fisher. The round hole is where a stove eye plate goes that is removed to cook over
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: Wandering Man on October 17, 2017, 12:32:29 pm: Very nice!
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: riverbee on October 17, 2017, 08:55:58 pm: that is a pretty cool find rat, and awesome restoration! and as your wife said, a fine piece with some history to it!

"I wish it could talk and tell some of the stories told while GI's warmed themselves around the fire."

one can only imagine!
Title: Re: No 18 cast iron Army cannon heater Barracks wood stove
Post by: neillsayers on October 17, 2017, 09:21:20 pm: Sweet Wife had one similar to this in the her old family place (log house) she was living in when we met. Her dad sad it was an old railroad stove. She enjoyed the picture, made her kind of nostalgic.