A 1957 mass-produced Sears Roebuck potbelly camp stove. Most likely sold by mail order. You did a good job restoring it and it and you will likely get a good price for it. It is actually better than new even with all the repairs. Welding cast iron is not for the faint-hearted. The massive cracks speak to years of hard use. Well done and a very interesting video!
Wasn't welded, but brazed which is a lot easier to do on cast iron than actual welding. Though he could have welded it having access to that oven for preheating.
Isn’t that actually “braising” or however it’s spelled? Not welding…it’s a different process. It’s a lot of work for….nothing? Really? Cool project I guess.
I second that, my father was a master welder, he would approve. We had a mini Franklin pot-belly in our green house on our homestead in Homer Alaska. Miss that little guy. Thank you for saving this one. Great job 👍 🤗❤️🌈🙏🕊️
I don’t know why but I love watching old pot bellied stoves and other small cast iron stoves being refurbished and reused. I find it very satisfying. Well done.
My grandfather had a Sears cannon stove like this in his radiator repair shop in the 1960s and 1970s, It was grandma's job to do the end-of-season cleaning--a very messy job. One year, my great-grandmother was ill and grandma was out of town, so grandpa hired a "professional' to clean it up. Apparently they tightened all the bolts and screws down too much and by the end of the next hearing season. The stove had developed cracks. Grandpa cussed that company as he installed a new gas heater, but I think grandma was very happy to not have to deal with the old cannon stove any more. Sears listed these in their catalog into the 1960s.
Seeing a large hole in the metal patched with caulking reminded me of my Grandfather. He was the master of "temporary" repairs. They were done quicky and cheaply and often never revisited.
This looks very much like the Pot Belly stove my father had in his garage, in Detroit many years ago. He used the garage to repair cars, starting about 1945. The stove came with the garage, I think. I was always hanging around, so he would ask me to put wood in it from time to time. When Interstate 75 came through Detroi in 1965, he moved everything to our garage in the suburbs, and put an ad in the paper for many items including the stove. He got hundreds of calls for the stove. Said he wished he had hundreds more to sell. If you ever drive through Detroit on I-75, and go under the Clark street overpass, that's right where the garage was. I sure miss those days, and I miss my dad. He would have loved these videos.
Those stoves were built strong but not indestructible. Amazing to watch you do these repairs and restore it to such a beautiful condition. One of your most enjoyable videos yet.
I was googling "sears woodstove" and found this exact same model, they were available in two sizes 72lb and 100lb, for 11.95 or 16.95 US dollars in 1948 😂
I used to be the cast iron repair guy for my area, usually fixing "repairs" someone else tried that didn't understand cast. Braising it is good, but you can use a broken piece of cast as filler to tig weld it too, but only if whole piece is cherry red, then post heat,and peen it until you are crosseyed. You do good work, loved this video.
I preheat with a propane turbo torch-grass killing torch, and post cool in a bin of vermiculite. Brazing is a handy way to repair cast iron. I’ve used zinc welding rod if a color match was important.
I never would have thought braising would be OK for a wood stove. Wouldn't it just melt once it got hot? At first I thought he was just ocy-acetylene weld. I've only welded cast iron with tig tho myself.
Beautiful restoration ! Obviously a labor of love. I remember as a boy in the early sixties thumbing through Sears & Roebuck’s big catalog at these. As I remember they sold several different sizes of potbelly stoves as well as kitchen ranges and various other stoves. Those were the days! Blessings to you.
If only Sears had kept their Catalog but migrated to Online orders, they would be worlds ahead of Amazon, but they did not do that. Catalog looking was window shopping from home.
This was a huge job. Much bigger than I expected when I start seeing this video. 😮 But I love your eyes for all the small details. This was a great video to watch. Love all the small golden touches too. Thank you for sharing this with me & TH-cam 👍😍
Growing up in the 70s my dad restored an old Courier highway bus, a camper for our family of 8. This is the exact stove we used to heat the bus. Wow did we get some looks when we pulled into the campground and stoked up the tiny potbelly. Thanks for the memories.
A VERY impressive restoration. I have not seen brazing being used for a considerable time. As a teen in the 1960s, I was told by my betters that "cast iron" was notoriously difficult to weld, even with the specialist rods then available, and most (like you have here) repaired any faults by brazing. A very interesting video. Thank you for sharing !
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Fan-freeking-tastic work !!! My brothers are exceptionally experienced in metal fabrication and mechanical/hydraulic/electrical fields. These types of restoration projects were some of their first in caste iron madness in tech school. Any time I think of my maternal grandfather doing wonderful things in his garage I smile at the memory of him sitting at his special bench re-winding generators beside old 'Benny'. A wood stove much like this one but about twice this size and one of the things we marveled at as kids.
Absolutely over the top restoration. This is how restoration would be taught in a classroom if restoration was a college class. It shows what can be done far beyond what is usually done to resurrect an antique item of this value range. Obviously this is a very experienced car guy to have the knowledge and resources on hand to do this.Edit: This comment was primarily directed to the lantern restoration, but applies equally to the potbelly coal burning stove. Magic work to e proud of.
Watching your repair was very heartwarming. I had a heater just like this one that heated my bedroom when I was young. I burned coal in it as well as wood. There were no gold highlights on my heater, perhaps there was when it was brand new. I enjoyed watching the restoration process a lot but what was the most satisfying was seeing you build a fire inside. I don't remember the last fire I ever had in my heater but I wish that I did. At the time I was overjoyed to get rid of the heater and replace it with an electric baseboard heater. Now, I miss the fire and the associated smells.
I have a soft spot in my heart for potbelly stoves, from the three we had heating the house on the farm. You have done an outstanding job restoring this one. You took way more ‘pride in workmanship’ than the manufacturer did, as evidenced by the care you took smoothing out your welds, as opposed to the castings you had to smooth out. The gold trim paint was a nice touch. Thanks for sharing your project. Oh, and we can NEVER get enough sandblasting footage. Thanks.
I was shocked to see this tiny pot belly stove. I have the same stove in my garage for over 30 years. Almost never used these days, it's warmed many nights of my garage activities during the cold months. My son's, now adults, we're tickled to see your vid. Great job ! Thanks
Simply beautiful, I love old potbelly stoves. Your work is impeccable, and very well done. I love that you showcased it in use at the end. Thank you for sharing this work of art!
Seeing a lovely stove as this be given a new lease of life so lovingly and painstakingly is a pleasure to behold. Well done sir, most enjoyable to watch. 11/10 as usual.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I've got two of these that are in perfect condition and they both have the top plate and the handles that fit in the indentation of the lids to remove them . I found them in a couple world war two bunkers at tongue point over looking the Columbia River. My uncle was stationed with the coast guard on tongue point and being an officer he had a nice house above the coast guard docks . The bunkers were completely over grown and I had to cut my way into them . There was a lot of stuff left in those bunkers that dotted the point. I had to carry the stoves on my back for over a half a mile and it was brutal with all the brush and undergrowth. I brought the stoves home and cleaned all the rust off and painted black. That was over 55 years ago and those two old stoves are still sitting on my covered deck in the same condition they were 55 years ago. When I'm gone someone will get to enjoy them I just hope they don't make a flower planter with them or paint a bunch of flower designs on them. They deserve to stay as they were when I found them and I've always wondered the stories they could tell if they were ever able to speak.
I have one of those stoves. The hardist was making the stove pipe connectors, but 8 th grade metal shop came in handy to fix that problem. It at my work shop in northern arizona it keeps me warm on those cold winter nights. Thanks for sharing, and have a wonderful day
The old enamel was a nice touch. It takes an ordinary utilitarian wood stove, and makes it something pleasant to look at. That's something I greatly appreciate about old fashioned things. :)
I can't believe how rough the casting was on this stove. They were obviously mass produced very cheaply. I always assumed cast iron could not be repaired. Did not know you could braise the parts back together! Great Job!
I had that exact same stove in my house in MA from 1960 to 1975 and it heated the whole house with chestnut coal or wood using fans all that time with no other heat source, using coal the barrel used to glow cherry red, and it was HOT, I wish Sears, Roebuck was still around as they had 'everything', like a giant general store !!!
Nicely done! Much more work than met the eye for sure and the result was great. I appreciate that you restore an eclectic mix of things too. You're obviously a very busy person so your videos take a while to come out. But they're so worth waiting for!
very impressive, you managed to put more work in to this stove repairing it than the manufactures did molding and casting it. the result certainly does look top notch.
A very interesting stylish stove and a magnificent, honest restoration. Restorers on TH-cam very often repair cracks and chips in cast iron using surface electric welding. The repair has a decorative effect, but is not durable. You use brazing and this is in good faith, the product can actually be used.
I'm Canadian, and where I come from they call these Quebec heaters (not sure why, maybe because they were popular in the province of Quebec). This is a very small unit, and as a farm kid growing up with wood heat we had a large heater in a downstairs room to supplement the big wood furnace in the basement. I repaired ours multiple times with brazing, and although it works well for structural strength in cast iron, it lacks heat integrity for large fires. Therefore it had to be checked, and renewed yearly! Add the furnace cement/fiberglass repair in the hottest area of the stove I personally would be careful building an indoor fire. Makes a wonderful nostalgia piece, and you did a magnificent job!
i have always liked these little stoves and hope to find one someday. I love that not only did you fix the broken and missing parts but you cleaned up all the original casting imperfections and made it better than it was, when it was new!
My favorite part from these restoration videos are always when you fix the casting. To remove those little lines on the sides, the little crooked corner on the door, just the caring to make it look smooth and beautiful is so satisfying to me, not everyone cares for these little details. You're right, if a restoration is just sandblasting and painting (although fun to watch) becomes boring... and that's where you come in. I loved this video, beautiful piece and an even more beautiful job. I've never seen someone weld cast iron and I'm really impressed, well done sir! I just subscribed, best wishes from Brazil!
Never thought I would get emotional on a restoration video but here I am crying. The day I’m watching this video (April 18th) marks 13 years since my grandpa passed and seeing that potbelly stove show up on my recommended list brought back so many memories. Your video makes me wanna go see if I can buy my grandpa’s potbelly stove from the family that lives in the house where it’s at.
Let us know if you managed it? How special. Well done! I sold our 98 year old house and actually removed the old Queen Anne stove from the lounge hearth as it had been in my family for many generations. We replaced it with an open fire grate and the buyers thanked us. They had no idea what we saw in the little old stove. Shows you. You think you’re leaving a home for a family to appreciate as yours has, but quite often, we are mistaken. Go get your old stove!
I had an old pot belly stove just like that from Sears and Roebuck! Mine was larger, yet still on the small side. I loved it so much, when I moved one of the legs broke and at that time did not know where I could take it to be restored. I ended up giving it back to my Ex-husband -not sure if he still has it. They work great if you can find one. All we needed to do was paint it black it was in great shape. Thanks for sharing.
I had this exact stove in a cabin at the bottom of my land long ago. I found it in a junk shop and took it home and set it up down there. Just me and my books and my dogs-- and later three little boys and girls listening to their stories being told to the sound of the stove popping while the geese waddled by outside under the oak trees. Happy times!
Great minds think alike. As you were smoothing over those rough rounded areas, I thought I'd weld a half-moon piece of metal and make new notches. I really like the gold accents you added as well. It's a little extra work but the final look once painted will be worth it!
Very good braze repairs. That one piece was badly damaged but you were able to fix it. You certainly know how to braze. Not a lot of detailed work done on those stoves. No deflashing or deburring done. They were just bolted together and shipped out. You did an excellent job. That stove will last a very long time...
I wondered how old this stove would be, then saw Sears in the forging on the door, im guessing very early 1900s. Never the less, its a beautiful little stove. Good work man!
I was not aware that you could actually weld or brase cast iron as its strong yet brittle at the same time Thank you for sharing as it was very enjoyable to watch a craftsman like yourself take the time to restore this small but now usable wood stove !
Ohh!! GORGEOUS. I love these too! We grew up huddled around one in Winter before the school bus arrived waiting for our breakfast to cook (one large pot on top.) Six kids & mother. Thankyou for your beautiful work and restoration choices. Anyway I love whatever you restore! Restoration adds that special something to an object that wasn't there before and the addition remains permanent.
Came to see pot belly stove resto and got way more than I asked for HOLY CRAP someone that actually knows how to properly braze cast iron in this day and age sweet jesus there is a god.
I am so thankful to my grandmother for teaching me how to cook on her old sears stove! She hada newer electric stove but this made everything taste better! I love watching you restore these beautiful treasures!
I loved the way you put it in the oven to heat after brazing to heat the whole thing. Better than just that one spot of brazing cooling down and cracking. great work ...amazing brazing!
I just sat through the entire restoration of this stove and amazed at what I watched. The only thing I could think of when all was finished was I would love to see this workshop. I truly don't think it is in the man's garage. Way too many tools and equipment for a small hobby. Beautiful restoration job. 😮👍
Even though we, my family, had a pot belly stove, in a work shop, about twice the size of the one you have restored, it brings back some very fond memories of growing up.
Folks that TRULY know what they are doing are a pleasure to watch. Beautiful and professional restoration, Sir. Much respect and many thanks for posting.
I don't care if you cut corners you rebuilt it beautifully. I'm very impressed and applaud you. I love to work wood l would never want to do anything in cast iron but a potbelly stove would get me to experiment with a sand blaster. It was fascinating view to watch you and see that there was mores than sand blasting. Now this stove will outlive you. I love wood heat it feels so good where electrical heat doesn't. What was that black stuff you painted on then fired it?
Best Valentines gift was a box of chocolate covered strawberries and a bottle of sparkling cider that my husband drove 240 miles to obtain ( there was nothing like this available where we lived). Second was a long stemmed rose from a 5 year old dressed in a suit who was knocking on all the widow's doors and giving them a treat. These two were many years apart. Love your videos. I look forward to early Friday morns.
Beautiful I just did a minor restore of the same stove style but half size. It had been turned into an ash tray on top everything worked. It was my wife grand mother’s, my wife is seventy today 5 march. My daughter wanted it teal colour which I obliged, looks great. You can’t help but love that old craftsmanship. Really enjoyed the video thank you for sharing.
Beautiful work ❤. I purchased a restored pot belly stove at an auction for a ridiculously low price but it was missing the grate. Now I know what to look for! Thank you ♥️
I have done a lot of mig, tig, and also brazing in my years. You did a wonderful job on all the iron repair! The video does not begin to cover the long hours involved in this restoration.
This was a beautiful restoration! My family and I have been looking for old cast iron stoves. We used to have one, but we moved and it stayed there. Ever since the power outages a coupla years ago, we have missed it. I am very jealous of your ability to weld cast iron! Very nice to see how it's done!
I miss shaker grates in stoves they don't put them in anymore. The skills you have are slowly being lost, I hope that you can pass these on to someone.
This is by far the best lil pot belly stove restoration I’ve ever seen! Your attention to detail is spot on and that gold detailing and pin striping is eye catching. Well done my friend, you obviously love your work, it shows! Thank you for taking us along, it was well worth the watch! 👍🏼👍🏼 from this guy✌🏼
you sir are a master of restoration. excellent job. my Grandmother had a Parlor Stove i remember from back in the early sixties they used in the house. the gold accents you put on the stove reminded me of that. I've always liked pot belly stoves but most are or were coal. i have cast iron wood stoves i use for heat. one is an old Jotul 602 thats a little loss for wear but still functional. maybe I'll redo it this spring as a project. interesting that there are no gaskets. really appreciate you bring that old stove back to life. thanks for sharing.
I remember as a kid sitting by one of these in the winter at old county store in Progress, Ms. were my dad was born and raise, it was his uncle's store. Life sure was a lot better then now. Playing checkers with my brother by the stove.
Incredible!! I am only in at 27:20 in the video and just blown away at your knowledge, know how and ability!! I have always wanted to sand blast things, I love the instant gratification of making something like new again to its original glory. I wanted to ask if these stoves, both this and the French one, can they still be used? I understand they are a beautiful show of workmanship, however, if ever there was a need, could they be used with fire/heat for warmth or for cooking? God bless you and your patience and all your hard work!! Blessings!!👏👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯✝️👍👍 Just finished, had to step away but came back and I just want to say…PERFECT!!!!👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️💯💯😃
A 1957 mass-produced Sears Roebuck potbelly camp stove. Most likely sold by mail order. You did a good job restoring it and it and you will likely get a good price for it. It is actually better than new even with all the repairs. Welding cast iron is not for the faint-hearted. The massive cracks speak to years of hard use. Well done and a very interesting video!
Frankly it should be used as a decorative object at this point and not for heating.
Wasn't welded, but brazed which is a lot easier to do on cast iron than actual welding. Though he could have welded it having access to that oven for preheating.
Isn’t that actually “braising” or however it’s spelled? Not welding…it’s a different process. It’s a lot of work for….nothing? Really? Cool project I guess.
I second that, my father was a master welder, he would approve. We had a mini Franklin pot-belly in our green house on our homestead in Homer Alaska. Miss that little guy. Thank you for saving this one. Great job 👍 🤗❤️🌈🙏🕊️
@@bruwin welding cast iron is a lost art at this point
I don’t know why but I love watching old pot bellied stoves and other small cast iron stoves being refurbished and reused. I find it very satisfying. Well done.
I doubt it will ever do the work it did in the past again.
It's so old it's retired @@billbammerlin4666 sorry😊😊
@@billbammerlin4666 who cares. It was just nice watching it being refurbished
@@billbammerlin4666 It is just as usable now as it ever was.
From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU for not ruining this excellent video with music!!!!!
My grandfather had a Sears cannon stove like this in his radiator repair shop in the 1960s and 1970s, It was grandma's job to do the end-of-season cleaning--a very messy job. One year, my great-grandmother was ill and grandma was out of town, so grandpa hired a "professional' to clean it up. Apparently they tightened all the bolts and screws down too much and by the end of the next hearing season. The stove had developed cracks. Grandpa cussed that company as he installed a new gas heater, but I think grandma was very happy to not have to deal with the old cannon stove any more. Sears listed these in their catalog into the 1960s.
Back when you could smoke at work.
Why wont he do the work instead?? Thats just weird man
@@arlynnecumberbatch1056he was repairing radiators
If I was grandma, I'd say fine, I'll clean your darn stove out and you can cook dinner!
How hard would it really be to clean one of these out? I mean come on now..
Seeing a large hole in the metal patched with caulking reminded me of my Grandfather. He was the master of "temporary" repairs. They were done quicky and cheaply and often never revisited.
"There is nothing as permanent as a temporary fix" - unknown
This looks very much like the Pot Belly stove my father had in his garage, in Detroit many years ago. He used the garage to repair cars, starting about 1945. The stove came with the garage, I think. I was always hanging around, so he would ask me to put wood in it from time to time.
When Interstate 75 came through Detroi in 1965, he moved everything to our garage in the suburbs, and put an ad in the paper for many items including the stove.
He got hundreds of calls for the stove. Said he wished he had hundreds more to sell.
If you ever drive through Detroit on I-75,
and go under the Clark
street overpass, that's right where the garage was.
I sure miss those days, and I miss my dad. He would have loved these videos.
@lindaali6703 Sounds like your gramps got out just in the nick of time.
One other TH-camr (Watch Wes Work) often says "It's temporary unless it works."
Those stoves were built strong but not indestructible. Amazing to watch you do these repairs and restore it to such a beautiful condition. One of your most enjoyable videos yet.
Love this
I was googling "sears woodstove" and found this exact same model, they were available in two sizes 72lb and 100lb, for 11.95 or 16.95 US dollars in 1948 😂
They were built to the cheapest possible price by cheap labor in poor foundries. Your finished product is way superior than when it was new.
I used to be the cast iron repair guy for my area, usually fixing "repairs" someone else tried that didn't understand cast.
Braising it is good, but you can use a broken piece of cast as filler to tig weld it too, but only if whole piece is cherry red, then post heat,and peen it until you are crosseyed. You do good work, loved this video.
I preheat with a propane turbo torch-grass killing torch, and post cool in a bin of vermiculite. Brazing is a handy way to repair cast iron. I’ve used zinc welding rod if a color match was important.
Soak the screws in WD40 for a day, or several, if they're rusted shut.
I never would have thought braising would be OK for a wood stove. Wouldn't it just melt once it got hot? At first I thought he was just ocy-acetylene weld. I've only welded cast iron with tig tho myself.
Beautiful restoration ! Obviously a labor of love. I remember as a boy in the early sixties thumbing through Sears & Roebuck’s big catalog at these. As I remember they sold several different sizes of potbelly stoves as well as kitchen ranges and various other stoves. Those were the days! Blessings to you.
If only Sears had kept their Catalog but migrated to Online orders, they would be worlds ahead of Amazon, but they did not do that. Catalog looking was window shopping from home.
This was a huge job. Much bigger than I expected when I start seeing this video. 😮 But I love your eyes for all the small details.
This was a great video to watch.
Love all the small golden touches too.
Thank you for sharing this with me & TH-cam 👍😍
Growing up in the 70s my dad restored an old Courier highway bus, a camper for our family of 8. This is the exact stove we used to heat the bus. Wow did we get some looks when we pulled into the campground and stoked up the tiny potbelly. Thanks for the memories.
Nice...very nice! Extremely satisfying to watch start to finish. No dialogue needed. The picture tells the whole story.
A VERY impressive restoration. I have not seen brazing being used for a considerable time. As a teen in the 1960s, I was told by my betters that "cast iron" was notoriously difficult to weld, even with the specialist rods then available, and most (like you have here) repaired any faults by brazing. A very interesting video. Thank you for sharing !
How does brazing hold up versus the temperature seen in a cast iron stove? Just curious.
@@bobk3840Why ask provocative questions to someone who doesn't know the subject? But you're good!
You not only restored it , you saved it! Most would have seen all the breaks and cracks and considered it junk!
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craftsman tools being used on a Sears and Roebuck pot belly stove, how appropriate. Beautiful Restoration.
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Fan-freeking-tastic work !!! My brothers are exceptionally experienced in metal fabrication and mechanical/hydraulic/electrical fields.
These types of restoration projects were some of their first in caste iron madness in tech school.
Any time I think of my maternal grandfather doing wonderful things in his garage I smile at the memory of him sitting at his special bench
re-winding generators beside old 'Benny'. A wood stove much like this one but about twice this size and one of the things we marveled at as kids.
Absolutely over the top restoration. This is how restoration would be taught in a classroom if restoration was a college class. It shows what can be done far beyond what is usually done to resurrect an antique item of this value range. Obviously this is a very experienced car guy to have the knowledge and resources on hand to do this.Edit: This comment was primarily directed to the lantern restoration, but applies equally to the potbelly coal burning stove. Magic work to e proud of.
Watching your repair was very heartwarming. I had a heater just like this one that heated my bedroom when I was young. I burned coal in it as well as wood. There were no gold highlights on my heater, perhaps there was when it was brand new. I enjoyed watching the restoration process a lot but what was the most satisfying was seeing you build a fire inside. I don't remember the last fire I ever had in my heater but I wish that I did. At the time I was overjoyed to get rid of the heater and replace it with an electric baseboard heater. Now, I miss the fire and the associated smells.
I have a soft spot in my heart for potbelly stoves, from the three we had heating the house on the farm. You have done an outstanding job restoring this one. You took way more ‘pride in workmanship’ than the manufacturer did, as evidenced by the care you took smoothing out your welds, as opposed to the castings you had to smooth out.
The gold trim paint was a nice touch.
Thanks for sharing your project.
Oh, and we can NEVER get enough sandblasting footage. Thanks.
I hope the next rodent will appreciate the workmanship that goes into home repairs such as these.
Poor mouse.
😂
I so much wanted to see a little kettle boiling on it.
I was shocked to see this tiny pot belly stove. I have the same stove in my garage for over 30 years. Almost never used these days, it's warmed many nights of my garage activities during the cold months. My son's, now adults, we're tickled to see your vid. Great job ! Thanks
Simply beautiful, I love old potbelly stoves. Your work is impeccable, and very well done. I love that you showcased it in use at the end. Thank you for sharing this work of art!
Seeing a lovely stove as this be given a new lease of life so lovingly and painstakingly is a pleasure to behold. Well done sir, most enjoyable to watch. 11/10 as usual.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I've got two of these that are in perfect condition and they both have the top plate and the handles that fit in the indentation of the lids to remove them .
I found them in a couple world war two bunkers at tongue point over looking the Columbia River. My uncle was stationed with the coast guard on tongue point and being an officer he had a nice house above the coast guard docks . The bunkers were completely over grown and I had to cut my way into them . There was a lot of stuff left in those bunkers that dotted the point. I had to carry the stoves on my back for over a half a mile and it was brutal with all the brush and undergrowth. I brought the stoves home and cleaned all the rust off and painted black. That was over 55 years ago and those two old stoves are still sitting on my covered deck in the same condition they were 55 years ago. When I'm gone someone will get to enjoy them I just hope they don't make a flower planter with them or paint a bunch of flower designs on them. They deserve to stay as they were when I found them and I've always wondered the stories they could tell if they were ever able to speak.
I have one of those stoves. The hardist was making the stove pipe connectors, but 8 th grade metal shop came in handy to fix that problem. It at my work shop in northern arizona it keeps me warm on those cold winter nights. Thanks for sharing, and have a wonderful day
The brazing work was top notch. Nicely done
The old enamel was a nice touch. It takes an ordinary utilitarian wood stove, and makes it something pleasant to look at. That's something I greatly appreciate about old fashioned things. :)
That literally has to be the best restoration I have ever seen. It looks like it was just purchased from the store. Incredible.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I can't believe how rough the casting was on this stove. They were obviously mass produced very cheaply. I always assumed cast iron could not be repaired. Did not know you could braise the parts back together! Great Job!
It’s nice to watch restorations that aren’t staged with fake dirt and surface rust. Mouse nests, seized bolts and repairs 👍
The carpet cleaning ones are the worst, I mean how many slugemudmuck carpets can one dude find?
Nicely done. Just agree with the comments regarding overtightening of the screws. Leave them a bit slack as you will find cracks occur from stress.
Nicely done restoration: in fact, better than new from the catalog. Removing the casting flash, and adding the gold trim were above and beyond.
I had that exact same stove in my house in MA from 1960 to 1975 and it heated the whole house with chestnut coal or wood using fans all that time with no other heat source, using coal the barrel used to glow cherry red, and it was HOT, I wish Sears, Roebuck was still around as they had 'everything', like a giant general store !!!
Nicely done! Much more work than met the eye for sure and the result was great. I appreciate that you restore an eclectic mix of things too. You're obviously a very busy person so your videos take a while to come out. But they're so worth waiting for!
very impressive, you managed to put more work in to this stove repairing it than the manufactures did molding and casting it. the result certainly does look top notch.
A very interesting stylish stove and a magnificent, honest restoration.
Restorers on TH-cam very often repair cracks and chips in cast iron using surface electric welding. The repair has a decorative effect, but is not durable. You use brazing and this is in good faith, the product can actually be used.
I'm Canadian, and where I come from they call these Quebec heaters (not sure why, maybe because they were popular in the province of Quebec). This is a very small unit, and as a farm kid growing up with wood heat we had a large heater in a downstairs room to supplement the big wood furnace in the basement. I repaired ours multiple times with brazing, and although it works well for structural strength in cast iron, it lacks heat integrity for large fires. Therefore it had to be checked, and renewed yearly! Add the furnace cement/fiberglass repair in the hottest area of the stove I personally would be careful building an indoor fire. Makes a wonderful nostalgia piece, and you did a magnificent job!
Probably not what one wants to hear but.... that is the CUTEST little pot belly stove! Wonderful job!
S tím souhlasím z celého srdce👍
Small enough to pack on horseback too 😊😊
That was one of the most satisfying videos I’ve watched in a long time. Brilliant restoration, congratulations !!!!!!
i have always liked these little stoves and hope to find one someday. I love that not only did you fix the broken and missing parts but you cleaned up all the original casting imperfections and made it better than it was, when it was new!
You did a great job on this. Impressive brazing skills. I have welded for 40 years but never used brazing. Enjoyed watching it come back to life!
My favorite part from these restoration videos are always when you fix the casting. To remove those little lines on the sides, the little crooked corner on the door, just the caring to make it look smooth and beautiful is so satisfying to me, not everyone cares for these little details. You're right, if a restoration is just sandblasting and painting (although fun to watch) becomes boring... and that's where you come in. I loved this video, beautiful piece and an even more beautiful job. I've never seen someone weld cast iron and I'm really impressed, well done sir! I just subscribed, best wishes from Brazil!
That restoration turned out beautifully. Much work !!❤😊
Wow, you are an excellent welder. I love that you saved this old beauty!
Never thought I would get emotional on a restoration video but here I am crying.
The day I’m watching this video (April 18th) marks 13 years since my grandpa passed and seeing that potbelly stove show up on my recommended list brought back so many memories.
Your video makes me wanna go see if I can buy my grandpa’s potbelly stove from the family that lives in the house where it’s at.
Go for it or you’ll never forgive yourself.
Let us know if you managed it? How special. Well done!
I sold our 98 year old house and actually removed the old Queen Anne stove from the lounge hearth as it had been in my family for many generations. We replaced it with an open fire grate and the buyers thanked us. They had no idea what we saw in the little old stove. Shows you. You think you’re leaving a home for a family to appreciate as yours has, but quite often, we are mistaken. Go get your old stove!
Glad to see someone on heat knows how to graze and properly fix cast iron!! Nice job
I had an old pot belly stove just like that from Sears and Roebuck! Mine was larger, yet still on the small side. I loved it so much, when I moved one of the legs broke and at that time did not know where I could take it to be restored. I ended up giving it back to my Ex-husband -not sure if he still has it. They work great if you can find one. All we needed to do was paint it black it was in great shape. Thanks for sharing.
Nice to watch a craftsman at work. Skilled use of the tools chosen for this task. I wish I had some of them; they certainly speed the process.
I had this exact stove in a cabin at the bottom of my land long ago. I found it in a junk shop and took it
home and set it up down there. Just me and my books and my dogs-- and later three little boys and girls listening
to their stories being told to the sound of the stove popping while the geese waddled by outside under the oak trees. Happy times!
Great minds think alike. As you were smoothing over those rough rounded areas, I thought I'd weld a half-moon piece of metal and make new notches. I really like the gold accents you added as well. It's a little extra work but the final look once painted will be worth it!
Very good braze repairs. That one piece was badly damaged but you were able to fix it. You certainly know how to braze. Not a lot of detailed work done on those stoves. No deflashing or deburring done. They were just bolted together and shipped out. You did an excellent job. That stove will last a very long time...
Great video I really enjoyed seeing this pot belly stove come back to life. You did a great job.
I wondered how old this stove would be, then saw Sears in the forging on the door, im guessing very early 1900s. Never the less, its a beautiful little stove. Good work man!
You’ve done an amazing job on the beautiful old wood stove! God bless you!
I was not aware that you could actually weld or brase cast iron as its strong yet brittle at the same time
Thank you for sharing as it was very enjoyable to watch a craftsman like yourself take the time to restore this small but now usable wood stove !
Very nice work R/S.. that was a huge undertaking and you did a fantastic job... Thx for bringing us along... Take care my friend and God Bless....
Ohh!! GORGEOUS. I love these too! We grew up huddled around one in Winter before the school bus arrived waiting for our breakfast to cook (one large pot on top.) Six kids & mother.
Thankyou for your beautiful work and restoration choices. Anyway I love whatever you restore! Restoration adds that special something to an object that wasn't there before and the addition remains permanent.
Came to see pot belly stove resto and got way more than I asked for HOLY CRAP someone that actually knows how to properly braze cast iron in this day and age sweet jesus there is a god.
How narrow-minded you are...
@vernetwpi9496 after your comment, you should look in the mirror and repeat it
I am so thankful to my grandmother for teaching me how to cook on her old sears stove! She hada newer electric stove but this made everything taste better! I love watching you restore these beautiful treasures!
Nice job on pre and post heating the cast iron for welding!
I loved the way you put it in the oven to heat after brazing to heat the whole thing. Better than just that one spot of brazing cooling down and cracking. great work ...amazing brazing!
I'm trying to fix cracks, not make more lol. I've had a lot of trouble with uneven heating/cooling cast iron in the past
This is amazing. I've never seen cast iron repaired. Great work!
I just sat through the entire restoration of this stove and amazed at what I watched. The only thing I could think of when all was finished was I would love to see this workshop. I truly don't think it is in the man's garage. Way too many tools and equipment for a small hobby. Beautiful restoration job. 😮👍
Even though we, my family, had a pot belly stove, in a work shop, about twice the size of the one you have restored, it brings back some very fond memories of growing up.
Folks that TRULY know what they are doing are a pleasure to watch. Beautiful and professional restoration, Sir. Much respect and many thanks for posting.
Oh man, this was a lot of repair work! Very well done, now this stove is looking better than new! 👍
That was just beautiful! As a child that’s what we used to heat our house until I was 12 years old.
This is the most satisfying restoration video I’ve seen in a long time. Well done!
I don't care if you cut corners you rebuilt it beautifully. I'm very impressed and applaud you. I love to work wood l would never want to do anything in cast iron but a potbelly stove would get me to experiment with a sand blaster. It was fascinating view to watch you and see that there was mores than sand blasting. Now this stove will outlive you. I love wood heat it feels so good where electrical heat doesn't. What was that black stuff you painted on then fired it?
Best Valentines gift was a box of chocolate covered strawberries and a bottle of sparkling cider that my husband drove 240 miles to obtain ( there was nothing like this available where we lived). Second was a long stemmed rose from a 5 year old dressed in a suit who was knocking on all the widow's doors and giving them a treat. These two were many years apart. Love your videos. I look forward to early Friday morns.
Beautiful I just did a minor restore of the same stove style but half size. It had been turned into an ash tray on top everything worked. It was my wife grand mother’s, my wife is seventy today 5 march. My daughter wanted it teal colour which I obliged, looks great. You can’t help but love that old craftsmanship. Really enjoyed the video thank you for sharing.
That's the best I've seen anyone weld cast iron. Good job.
I was amazed how many pieces of this stove needed TLC. You did a fabulous job. It is a beauty!!!
Amazing that the grates were still there and intact. Superb job!
Beautiful work ❤. I purchased a restored pot belly stove at an auction for a ridiculously low price but it was missing the grate. Now I know what to look for! Thank you ♥️
Nice job. Looks brand new and probably better than when it was brand new.😊
Wow! You are so meticulous. I am very impressed with your attention to detail & your effort to restore every aspect of this stove. Great work!
Excellent effort , viewing from Detroit Michigan USA 🇺🇸 .
That’s an awesome job you’re doing you’ve created some nice homemade wood stoves out of propane bottles as well. Very good stuff. Thank you.
Благодарю Вас что делитесь своим творчеством. Очень интересно. Благодарю за Ваш труд ❤️
I have done a lot of mig, tig, and also brazing in my years. You did a wonderful job on all the iron repair! The video does not begin to cover the long hours involved in this restoration.
The way you welded that cast iron proves your professionalism. I am suitably impressed
Stop it, nowadays it's so common a caveman could do it. Most would have tig welded it but to each his/her own.
@@Nowayjose-z2r Not only professional but also modest. Best wishes.
I just love everything about this restoration, especially the animation,like the finger snapping and things are done,lovely😊
Heck yeah! Always a good day when RS uploads. :) Can't wait to watch!
It's been the best total restoration of a pot belly stove I've seen on U Tube? Well done nice work!.
That poor old thing looked like it had been through some wars.
Nice job on the restore.
It looked like a stove straight out of a MASH tent!
This was a beautiful restoration! My family and I have been looking for old cast iron stoves. We used to have one, but we moved and it stayed there. Ever since the power outages a coupla years ago, we have missed it. I am very jealous of your ability to weld cast iron! Very nice to see how it's done!
I miss shaker grates in stoves they don't put them in anymore. The skills you have are slowly being lost, I hope that you can pass these on to someone.
Love those gold highlights you added, and I love that the stove has a little spot for a kettle or small cookpan! A cozy little touch, I think.
I love your perfectionism!
This is by far the best lil pot belly stove restoration I’ve ever seen! Your attention to detail is spot on and that gold detailing and pin striping is eye catching. Well done my friend, you obviously love your work, it shows! Thank you for taking us along, it was well worth the watch!
👍🏼👍🏼 from this guy✌🏼
When I first glanced at the thumbnail I though, we are in trouble, he has gotten hold of an old nuclear reactor of some sort.
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Ещё немного и он точно доберётся до старого, ржавого ядерного реактора.
A bomb!😵😆
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@Ledorovich, nice one, man!😂
you sir are a master of restoration. excellent job. my Grandmother had a Parlor Stove i remember from back in the early sixties they used in the house. the gold accents you put on the stove reminded me of that. I've always liked pot belly stoves but most are or were coal. i have cast iron wood stoves i use for heat. one is an old Jotul 602 thats a little loss for wear but still functional. maybe I'll redo it this spring as a project. interesting that there are no gaskets. really appreciate you bring that old stove back to life. thanks for sharing.
So nice to finally see someone use welding skills to fix cracks on a restoration rather than epoxy or fill putty.
Its brazzing Not welding 😅
так он потом всё равно зашпаклевал там где варил. И наплевать что оно там будет нагреваться
Great work. I like the gentleness and unrushed approach he has. Patience, wonderful work.
Great job! You made brazing old cast iron look easy! Not a simple task!!
My thoughts too, looks like he did a fine job at it.
Nice Job! I find that watching the sand blasting is the most satisfying part-just me I guess.
I remember as a kid sitting by one of these in the winter at old county store in Progress, Ms. were my dad was born and raise, it was his uncle's store. Life sure was a lot better then now. Playing checkers with my brother by the stove.
Incredible!! I am only in at 27:20 in the video and just blown away at your knowledge, know how and ability!! I have always wanted to sand blast things, I love the instant gratification of making something like new again to its original glory. I wanted to ask if these stoves, both this and the French one, can they still be used? I understand they are a beautiful show of workmanship, however, if ever there was a need, could they be used with fire/heat for warmth or for cooking? God bless you and your patience and all your hard work!! Blessings!!👏👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯✝️👍👍
Just finished, had to step away but came back and I just want to say…PERFECT!!!!👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️💯💯😃
Sandblasting is always my favourite part of these videos, even though I watch the whole video. It's just so satisfying!
I love sandblasting! Thought I was the only freak that watched that
Nice brazing done there, i would have chased those cracks a bit further to make sure they will never bother again. But all in all a job well done.