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I posted this on the campfire section, but I know a lot of you may be able to help me out.
My cylinder stove has a 5" pipe hole, but the tent has a 6" collar. Will I have any problems if I use a 5" to 6" increaser and 6" pipe? Will it draft correctly; any creosote issues?

I don't have any personal experience with your particular problem, but I don't see how that wouldn't work for you. You may want to pull the extension every once in a while to clean out any build up at the joint marriage, but other than that you should be ok.

My tent has a 6" collar as well and I use 5" stackable pipe with no issues what so ever. I have also used a 5"-6" adaptor when we once had 6" stove pipe, no drafting or creosote issues what so ever. Either way you'll be fine.

Or you can just take an old coffee can that fits the opening and cut a 5 inch hole in it. Or a hole any size that ya need.........

Or buy your 5-6 reducer and stick it in the stove jack to take up the slack,,,or just live with the small gap.

Don't use the reducer as an increaser.

Thanks for the ideas. I like the idea of the reducer in the stove jack; hadn't thought of that. I had trouble with driving rain coming in around the smaller pipe.

Frankly I would resize the jack for the stove pipe you have.

Water blowing in around a loose jack makes a mess in the tent and there is a tendency to draft smoke and sparks back against and inside the tent.

Any obstruction in a pipe tends to make a cold spot and build up creoste.

The scr3ew on metal adaptors move the heat closer to the tent body and I don't trust them if I get a hot fire going.