Stove stove pov 57 - overview and operating instructions

In order to heat well a small closed room with a volume of no more than 40 cubic meters, it is enough to install in it an army cast-iron stove of the "potbelly stove" type, which is marked under the POV-57 marking. Such a unit will perfectly serve for heating a building shed, a railway carriage, a summer cottage, a garage, as well as other buildings that cannot be connected to a central heating main.
Army POV-57 cast iron potbelly stove we consume a small amount of fuel, its consumption is quite economical. With one load of the furnace, the room will be provided with heat for 6-9 hours.

The design of the army cast-iron "potbelly stove"

Since the time when the POV-57 furnace was used only by the military spacecraft (red army), its characteristics and structure have not changed in the wagons and warehouses of the Ministry of Railways of the USSR. It is still made of gray cast iron - an alloy of iron, carbon, graphite. For stoves, cast iron of the following grades is taken: SCh 10, 15, 25, 30, 35. The higher the number in the name of the material grade, the more durable, heat-resistant, and resistant to carosion the device will be.
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• Characteristics and dimensions
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Installation Requirements
• How to use?
• Rates
• Where can I buy?
• How to distinguish a fake from an original?
• Output

The main elements are made of cast iron in the POV-57 furnace, here is the furnace device:

1. Furnace body.
2. Potbelly stove cover (removable).
3. The grate (removed).
4. Furnace bottom (removable).
5. Furnace door.
6. Blower door.

The potbelly stove body has the shape of a barrel, less often the base is made rectangular. The stove is placed on 4 legs. If there are no legs in the package, then before installing the POV-57, you will have to take care of the device of a fire-safe base.

On the front part of the body near the military stove-stove there are two doors. One is needed for laying fuel material. Combustion products (ash, soot) are removed through the second door. In the upper part of the potbelly stove there is a lad. A chimney is mounted to it, which removes carbon monoxide.

When buying a potbelly stove, it is important to make sure that there is a metal plate with slots between the steam room and the firebox. It guarantees air circulation inside the furnace body, increases the efficiency of the device.

If there is a desire to speed up the heating of the room and reduce fuel consumption, it is recommended to install side screens (there is none in the design of a standard stove): metal sheets are attached with long self-tapping screws to the stove so that there are 5-6 cm gaps between them and the walls of the stove.

Real army potbelly stove

Potbelly stove in various painting options

Furnace complete set:

• stove body;
• removable cover;
• removable grate;
• removable bottom.

The advantages of an army stove

• The POV-57 cast iron stove is very economical in terms of fuel consumption. One load of the unit is capable of heating it for 6-10 hours. Historically, this type of oven was used about fifty years ago to heat barracks and army tents. This is where the name comes from.
• The material for the manufacture of an army stove is cast iron, therefore the walls of the furnace body are thick. It is thanks to this that the durability of the furnace is explained.
• Compact dimensions; design mobility and ease of transportation; the duration of heat retention due to the thick cast-iron walls of the structure; uniformity of heat distribution inside the room; economy in fuel consumption; a large selection of various types of cheap fuel; high heat transfer; the duration of the furnace operation (more than 50 years).

Characteristics and dimensions

The stove is designed to heat the air in a room with a perimeter of 42-45 meters.The duration of normal heat transfer is 7-9 hours. Firewood, coal, garbage (suitable for thermal utilization) are used as fuel material.

The parameters of a standard collapsible military stove-stove will be as follows:

• Width - 37 centimeters.
• The depth of the oven is 37 centimeters.
• Height - 57 centimeters.
• The weight of the stove is 60 kilograms.
• The efficiency of the stove is 80-85%.

POV-57 can be heated in rooms that allow for a chimney, create conditions that meet fire safety. More often they put an army stove in garages, country houses, sheds, multi-seat camping tents, building change houses, dugouts, and carriages. If necessary, remove the top cover of the cylinder, attach the hob and cauldron. This will allow you to cook on the stove, the structure can be installed in the summer kitchen.

Small but efficient stove

Why upgrade?

The stove-stove is a very simple heating device, although today it has also been deeply modernized. Such a stove, which has become a favorite solution for heating small country houses, can have not only a single-chamber, but also a two-chamber design. The modernized potbelly stove is capable of providing heat even to houses where residents live permanently.

The simplicity of design and manufacture makes it affordable to purchase and operate. In addition, the absence of a foundation is a significant advantage for the construction of such a structure. But, despite such a number of positive properties, the potbelly stove also has significant disadvantages:

1. Its efficiency is rather small, the simplicity of the design carries with it an inherent drawback - a huge part of the heat from the stove stove "flies into the pipe".
2. To work with such a stove, strict safety requirements are required, since the dropping out combustion elements can damage nearby premises and even lead to a fire.
3. To heat a room with a stove, it is required to use up a significant amount of fuel cells, which is due to the fact that this type of heating is used only for a short time.

But this is not a reason to be discouraged, our "kulibins" for many years have found several simple but effective ways to increase the efficiency of the stove. In this article, we will consider exactly the modernization of the stove design itself.

Advantages and disadvantages

The POV-57 stoves have the following advantages:

• Compact dimensions that allow you to equip a small room.
• Strong, durable stove material. The army potbelly stove POV-57 has been working for over half a century (subject to the rules of operation).
• It is used for 2 purposes: heating rooms, cooking food in a cooking way.
• Cools down slowly, retains heat longer after turning off the oven (4-5 hours).
• When installing gates, screens, the efficiency of the furnace increases (+ 5-10%).

POV-57 has disadvantages that should be taken into account:

• Heating the room over 40 sq. meters of potbelly stove POV will not work.
• The inability to install automation on the oven.
• Fire safety is small in comparison with other types of stoves, constant monitoring of the work of the stove is required.
• The body of the stove gets very hot, you need to be careful not to burn yourself.

Important: the POV cast-iron potbelly stove does not tolerate sudden changes in temperature. Do not extinguish the fire by pouring cold water - this will lead to cracks on the stove body.

Advantages of the POV-57 military furnace

Among the main advantages of the unit, the following qualities should be noted:

1. compactness, mobility and ease of transportation;
2. ease of installation;
3. efficiency, determined by low fuel consumption;
4. efficiency of heating - after 15 minutes of burning wood, heat is already spilling into the room;
5. as fuel, you can use both firewood and modern briquettes, construction waste, etc.;
6. slow cooling;
7. durability and maintainability;
8. fire safety is provided by a cast-iron body covered with heat-resistant enamel;
9. a good level of efficiency (80%), the stability of which is ensured by special air supply regulators;
10. the operation of the unit from one load lasts for 6 hours;
11. the surface of the oven is suitable for cooking;
12. You can buy a heating stove in the online store without any problems. Delivered to the door.

The weaknesses of the stove-stove are manifested in the following points:

1. there is no possibility of regulating operating modes and heating temperature;
2. strong heating of the case increases the risk of ignition of flammable objects close to the stove, as well as getting burns;
3. forced extinguishing with water is not allowed due to the intolerance of cast iron to sudden temperature fluctuations;
4. it is difficult to heat more than 40 m2 with one stove;
5. the heated room must be ventilated.

Installation Requirements

The POV-57 stove is placed indoors on a refractory surface (it is especially important if the potbelly stove does not have long legs). Experts recommend putting the cast iron system on a tile, iron sheet.

It is convenient to place the stove in the corner of a house, garage, shed. It is better not to put it in the center of the room, so as not to accidentally touch the walls, not to get burns. There must be at least 1 meter from the wall to the body (if there are wooden walls around). It is strictly forbidden to keep flammable materials within 1.5m from the device.

Installation example

SO the oven is not installed correctly! Flammable materials around and the oven is not on a stand

How to use?

Potbelly stove POV 57 is easy to use. The algorithm for kindling the furnace is as follows:

• Place a crumpled newspaper on the bottom of the stove reserve.
• Lay brushwood, chips, a small amount of the main fuel material on top.
• Make sure that the blower of the SOV oven is half open.
• Set fire to paper. If it ignites too intensely, gradually cover the blower until the flame is of optimal size.
• Add fuel, close the oven door.

Try to use dry wood

If you are going to use a new stove for the first time, first check the draft: a lighted match is supplied to the chimney, the flame and smoke should be directed strictly towards the chimney. If the draft is disturbed, it is strictly forbidden to use the POV-57 stove-stove.

Does the stove stand idle for a long time (for example, when the owners leave the dacha, the warehouse is closed, the summer kitchen is not used in winter)? Experts advise to subject the product to conservation: cover the outer walls of the stove with a thick layer of chalk. This will protect the cast iron from corrosion.

About cheap country stoves that can be fired with coal

There is. True, in our store not, but in nature there. If you have a small house, up to 150 cubic meters, or a summer cottage and there is coal - this article is for you.

First, about why there are no cast-iron stoves for charcoal firing in the Heat-Steam store.

1. they are cheap and very heavy because they are made of cast iron - loaders seem to be against pulling weights for three kopecks.
2. there is not such a great demand for them in the Moscow region that it would be interesting to deal with them

A bit of school physics, in simple words.

The only criterion that a furnace designed for coal should have is a completely cast iron firebox. Any steel stoves, even with protective cartridges inside the firebox, will not serve you for long. Perhaps except for Butakov on coal, but I'm not sure

And this is why I am against steel:

Coal burning, at high temperatures, in contact with ordinary steel (be it a steel grate or a furnace wall, or internal pipes) destroys it. But there is no cast iron.

The photo shows that coal powerfully heats steel pipes.

A little about the combustion temperature.

Everybody has such a term: specific heat of combustion - a value that shows how much heat is released during the complete combustion of fuel with a mass of 1 kg or a volume of 1 m³.

Each material has its own.

That is, if you bought a steel stove and heat it up with linoleum, plastic containers from toasted milk powder, bags from the supermarket, as well as old parquet flooring, then you shouldn't be surprised why my carbon steel stove burned out. This is all science, guilty, because it is a rastak, not a manufacturer who made a bad oven. But if the stove were completely cast iron, it would have nothing. For cast iron.

The algorithm for buying a stove from a thinking person with little cash in his pocket should be as follows:

• A) I have a tree so that I need a cheap long burning stove
• B) I have a little wood, half a coal with coal and old parquet floors from my grandfather's apartment - which means I need a cast iron stove

And now, about what kind of cheap cast-iron stoves are and where to get them.

Option 1

POV-57 cast iron army stove

Naturally

In the unnatural and beautiful, that is, after splashing on cast iron with heat-resistant paint from a spray

Video on how POV 57 works

Options: Fuel Firewood, fuel briquettes The volume of the heated room is up to 40 cubic meters. m Power up to 15 kW Depth 330 mm Width 330 mm Height 525 mm Furnace weight 43 kg Chimney diameter 115 mm

The price is about 250 bucks in stores, but you can buy it cheaper from warrant officers from the survival forums. The stove is either army, even under the communists, it was developed, which means: + unkillable - gluttonous

Option 2

Modern Chinese cast-iron stove-potbelly stove.

I note right away that all manufacturers from China write that their stoves are wood-burning. But cast iron still remains cast iron, and a completely cast iron potbelly stove will serve you several times longer than a steel one.

The key word is modern, that is, it was not released in Mao's years, when Chinese cast iron was cavernous and bursting from the water spilled on it, and since the time of Hu Jin Tao - from the beginning of 2000, when most European brands began to cast cast iron furnaces in China, according to their European technologies, and the Chinese.

Now Chinese cast iron stoves are divided into stoves sold under European brands for expensive and under Chinese brands for cheap for the domestic market and for other countries. Here's the last option and we'll see. The stove is Chinese, for China it can be distinguished by marking - these are 2-3 Latin letters and some numbers from the bulldozer. By the way, I myself see Chinese stands with the most beautiful cast-iron Chinese stoves at every stove exhibition. Not only that, they are also made in a smart way.

Of course, domestic Chinese brands are not European, but expecting a $ 300 oven quality for a $ 3,000 oven is rash. However, comparing Chinese stoves with POV-57 is a choice towards China.

And that's why:

1) Chinese stoves are interior, that is, they have very beautiful casting, even the cheapest 2) Thanks to modern casting technologies, they have valves for fine adjustment of the air supply, which means they are more economical 3) They have models with glass, albeit small

There are also disadvantages compared to POV-57:

1) Often they have a non-standard chimney diameter - let's say 132, and sometimes a diameter of 150 - on it the chimney is one and a half times more expensive than on POV's 115 2) POV cast iron is more cast iron! With the same dimensions, POV is often heavier than a Chinese one, of the same size 3) When buying a Chinese oven, you need to look with both eyes at the "tightness": tightness of the door closing, tightness of the sealing cord, tightness of closing the dampers 4) Chinese ovens are more expensive for $ 50-150. Or maybe 100%, snm is more expensive if you bought POV-57 from the ensign for a bottle of cognac and a can of snacks

Well, about Chinese manufacturers that have good distribution in Russia:

Crown Industries

The stoves have a JA name and a number.

Let's say JA 044 - looks European, but costs 200 bucks more than POV - 57

It is a pity that the Crown website does not have a complete catalog.

I also liked JA 047, it is even cheaper a little

Brand Ciang

400 dollars and a cast-iron stove SUNME-505 is yours

Yes etozh ja- 047 from Crown, you tell me!

But no!

It's just the same stove but from different factories! By the way, POV-57 was also produced by different factories, while maintaining general design solutions. More ...

Topcasting plant and its TST-labeled furnaces

Let's say TST 944

I saw her somewhere! Well, you understand)))

Olymberyl plant

The plant produces furnaces with HF marking

Let's say a three hundred dollar potbelly stove HF-706

Historical background for the sake of justice

Ancestors of all these Chinese ovens: originally from Norway!

It:

Cast iron JØTUL F 602

It has been produced since 1930.

and JOTUL F 601, an even older oven

True, the price tags for Yotula are from $ 800, which is sad. Here is such a review, and what to take is up to you.

The main thing is cast iron!

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An army cast iron stove-stove POV-57 from a domestic manufacturer (for example, TEMZ, Balezimsky LMZ, Rubtsovo LLC) costs 3800-4900 rubles. The indicated price is typical for a product of standard sizes and made of cast iron grade СЧ 10-25. If an alloy of increased strength (SCh 30-35) was used when creating, the price rises to 9000-10000 rubles.

For the built-in burner, which allows you to use the stove as a stove, you will have to pay 1200-1500 rubles on top of the basic price. If a chimney pipe is included in the package, then the cost of a stove will increase by 2000-3000 rubles.

Where can I buy?

Today, hundreds of specialized stores offer army stoves POV-57. On the Internet, you can order a stove from another city - the goods will be delivered in a few days (depending on the remoteness of the client's settlement).

If you want to save money, you should buy an army oven not new, but used. On ad sites like Avito, stove stoves with different service life are sold. If the stove has been used for less than 5 years, the price is reduced by 20-30%. When the oven is more than 10 years old, they are sold at a discount of 60-70% of the cost of a new product.

Attention: the service life of the stove is half a century; it is not recommended to buy a stove over 50 years old

Installation and operation

1. When installed between a wall and the oven must provide for a space of at least 1 meter. In this case, a cast-iron stove should be installed on concrete, sheet metal, brickwork or ceramic tiles. It is these materials provide fire safety constructions. It is strictly forbidden to install the stoves on boards, parquet, floors covered with linoleum, laminate, carpet or plastic. The size bases for installation must exceed the dimensions of the oven by 20-30 cm.
2. Chimney pipe indoors should be mounted single-section, without joints. Or the sections should be connected to each other by entering the lower one into the upper one. In the place where the chimney passes through the wall, a thermal barrier made of bricks or ceramics can be provided. It is permissible to install a concrete barrier, but concrete can crumble during a change in temperature.
3. Firewood boxes or other fuel, it is better to place it away from the stove door (at least 80 cm), otherwise there is a risk of fire. This also applies to any other flammable items.
4. To ensure fire safety in the country, the stove must be kept in sight. Do not leave the room until it is burned out.
5. To light the stove, open the firebox and put fuel, light it. You can adjust the strength of the fire by opening and closing the ash pan.
6. The ash drawer must be cleaned regularly.... To do this, cool the oven, remove the ash pan and free it from the contents.
7. Do not put more than 3 kg of firewood in the stove for one kindling. Always close the doors.
8. When deficiencies are found in the construction of the chimney, the use of the stove is prohibited.
9. Do not touch the stove with your hands: The heating temperature is extremely high.

The production of stoves is gaining popularity and improving, there are many varieties on the market, but it is more expedient choose models with a longer burning and double afterburning, they will consume fuel more efficiently.

To create a cozy atmosphere around the hearth, consider designs with thermal glass doors. When choosing a model, consider the purpose of the subsequent use of the unit and your material capabilities.

The potbelly stove is one of the types of outdoor stoves. What other outdoor ovens are there, and on the example of one of them, how to build a brick oven on the street is described in detail in this article.

The video that we invite you to watch will help you to visualize all the subtleties of the device of the cast-iron stove-stove and its installation in the country.

How to distinguish a fake from an original?

Sometimes sellers, out of ignorance or in order to deceive the buyer, give out other stoves for a potbelly stove. It is worth knowing that this is not a POV-57 potbelly stove, if the description states:

• The stove is not made of gray cast iron.
• There are not two doors on the body, but one.
• The stove is too massive - it significantly differs from the standard dimensions 53x39x39.
• The stove is too small, weighs less than 30 kg (a product made of high-quality gray cast iron is never lightweight).
• The instructions indicate that it is heated with 1 type of fuel.

In order not to fall for the bait of scammers, it is better to buy stoves for houses or garages in trusted stores. Pre-read the reviews on the seller, check the certificates for the products (a bona fide seller will always show the product documents at the request of the client).

Output

An army potbelly stove is an easy way to warm up a small room that is not connected to a central heating system. Uncomplicated design, light instructions simplify the installation of the product (no complicated manipulations are required). You can master the instructions on how to use the stove in a couple of minutes.

But it is important to remember: the product is not automated, it heats up strongly, has a low degree of fire safety - during the operation of the POV-37 stove, watch the work, do not leave unattended, keep children and pets away from the stove. If you follow the rules, the stove will last more than half a century without failures and the need for repair.