Stove Assembly

Assembling Your Stove

Our new stoves are up to 30% lighter and 60% more compact than their predecessors. You can now pack a complete Kifaru Tipi Stove INSIDE your backpack. In addition, the new stovepipe cannot "part at the joints" when heavy winds are buffeting your tipi. It's a one-piece pipe that now packs very small and is carried inside the same bag as the stove itself. Its held in place in its assembled form by unique slip-on wire cable retainer rings.

Box Assembly
1) Slip together the sides, front and back pieces using the slots provided. Make sure the side piece with the door latch on it is adjacent the door. Also make sure the little tabs for our optional warming tray are facing up.
2) Set this "open box" into the bottom piece.
3) Set the top piece on, making sure the stovepipe hole is on the opposite side of the box from the door.
4) Holding the whole "box" from the top and bottom, set it on its side, and gather the stove legs.
5) Remove the top caps from the legs and thread one thru one corner of the stove from the bottom 'til the the top of the leg is peeking out the top of the stove. Hand snug one leg cap onto this leg, and then hand snug the legs' wingnut against the bottom of the stove. Do all the legs like this.
6) Curl the stove "collar" (the remaining piece of flat metal with the parallel slots and rivits in it) 'til the holes line up and secure with wingnut. Your collar is slightly adjustable to accommodate a good fit with the bottom-most retainer wire, which you will be sliding down toward the collar after slipping the stovepipe on it. NOTE: The ELONGATED hole should be to the OUTSIDE when you roll the collar. Start with the smallest-diameter collar position and see how that works. The wing nut should be on the outside of the collar so you can adjust to perfection by reaching your hand thru the stove and expanding the collar with your fingers, if it's necessary. You can even do this prior to putting the stove together, using just the assembled stovepipe, the collar and the stove top. Insert collar into stove top, with the wingnut oriented at the top of the collar.
7) Insert at least one spark screen into one of the slots in the collar.
8) Lower stovepipe onto collar per above stovepipe instructions.
9) Open stove draft in its door, build a fire in the stove and enjoy! Burn a good, serious fire for at least a half hour the first time to "set" the stovepipe.



Caps are visible on top of the legs, legs are naked at bottom for pushing into ground, increasing stove stability and making it easier to level (you can do this very accurately using a pot of water).		Showing wingnuts at bottom of stove box. Again, bare legs.



Stovepipe shown on OUTSIDE of connecting collar; and inserted screens.		Top of stovepipe with bolt and wingnut INSIDE pipe so as not to damage fireproof fabric when inserting end of stovepipe through the pipe port.

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