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We installed a silicone stove jack on our old cook tent last year and also replaced the stove with a new Kwik Kamp. The stove worked great and kept us as toasty as we needed. However we encountered an issue that we didn't have before with the old metal jack.

When the wind comes up and the ceiling of the tent bellows up the pipe for the stove kept getting pulled off of the stove. the silicone grips the pipe well, or too well. The tent is 30+ years old and the metal frame isn't the perfect fit so there is some slack which is why we get the bellowing.

We have a few ideas on how to fix it (wire, stove monkey, etc.) but I was hoping to bypass some of the trial and error by seeing if anyone else has "solved" this problem before.

Thanks - Load

Drill a hole thru the pipe collar on the stove and pipe, put a sheetmetal screw or piece of wire in to keep pipe attached to stove. Another option if there is no pipe collar on stove, is get a 12 inch nail(cut off head), drill a hole corresponding in size to nail in the pipe. Lift canvas up a few inches, mark and drill pipe, insert nail thru pipe. The pipejack will then be raised enough to eliminate bellowing by resting on nail. This option is also helpful to keep water from running down the pipe.

Thanks for the idea!

The stove jack is tight around the chimney pipe?

Getting an inch smaller reducer and a section or two smaller pipe is another way to keep the stove-jack from pulling the pipe out.

Any good hardware store will have a reducer, neck it down to the next smaller size a ways away from the stove-jack. Having that gap seems to rub a little quiter, and runs the stove-jack a lot cooler.

Putting the reducer in the stove makes it harder to forget. And putting the smaller pipe inside the original size pipe packs easy.

Smoke is still smart enough to get it right, reducing the pipe still will draw fine.

My solution is to spiral a piece of baling wire from my cap to the stove around the pipe about 2 turns on the way. Its been working for several years.

Yes. It's snug on the pipe.

From the very top of the pipe? I'll give that a shot to start.

I assume this is to keep water from running down the pipe.

Cut the hole a little larger

I use a 5" pipe with a cap. Cap has 3 legs that holds the, cap top. I wrap wire around this leg, then spiral wrap down the pipe to stove. My Cylinder stove has a top support on each corner. This is where the wire hooks to stove. If your stove doesn't have a place to hook the wire. It would be easy to install a 1/4" bolt to use. Or just wrap around a leg.

Had the same problem on mine and a slight trim of the Jack with a pocketknife solved it.