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Originally Posted by Mirror Lake's BB
Audiofn- unfortunately, the chimney is lined with tin.
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By "tin", do you mean
real "tin"—that's thin, silver, whose edge could cut you? Or "sheet metal iron", which is thick—like a hard-bound book cover? (Sheet steel that fireplace inserts like "Heatilator" once made).
Your damper should be made of much heavier metal than "tin", which wouldn't support the damper in the first place.
Facing an outside masonry repair anyway, it sounds like the whole thing needs an expensive do-over which would incorporate all new metal inside.
That said, there is a welder advertising roadside on Mountain Road (Rt. 171) towards Moultonboro from your locale: maybe he'd do a home visit with the portable welders made just for that purpose.
You could check with a hardware store like Bradley's in Wolfeboro, who sell replacement woodstove equipment and chimney sections.
