If you google "woodstove parts" you will turn up some sources, but my experience is that it can be very difficult to find replacements. You might be able to contact some stove restoration experts who can advise you on substitutes for the original parts. We have a wood-burning parlor stove for the primary heat source in our home and we also need a new grate for it, but haven't been able to find one. In the meantime, the head from a potato fork is just the right size to bridge the missing section of grate and keep the logs from falling through. Sometimes you do what you have to! Annie

Quite a few folks figured that heating with corn (or wheat or rye) was cheaper than any other kind of heat except wood that you cut yourself. And that was last year. Anybody want to speculate on what may happen, this winter? I think that it might be a good idea to order a wheat/rye/corn-fired heater as soon as possible, as I expect that there's a substantially higher demand than last year. My friend, after selling a couple of other brands over fifteen years ago, said that he could build a better one. I sold one of the other brands for a couple of years, about 15 years ago. He developed, patented and started building one that had several innovative ideas (later copied by others) about fifteen years ago. There are quite a number of them in use now and there have been few problems or complaints from the users. Not only that - they are built to last, of heavier gauge steel than many, so should continue to operate well after a number of others have warped out of shape, leaked gases/smoke and been consigned to the scrap heap. When Alex did something - he did it right. Good wishes for all of the hot air that you need this winter. If you need any more - just ask me. joyful guy

I'm a former antique gas stove owner. We inherited a 1930s Magic Chef when we bought our house in 2007. When we started our current kitchen renovation in December 2013, I sold it to a very grateful old-stove enthusiast from Michigan who drove down in ONE DAY from the Upper Peninsula to NYC. My experience: the prior owners of our house, the purchasers of the stove, bought a fixer-upper stove. They corresponded with one of the old stove places online and did some rudimentary repairs themselves, but there were things that needed a real restorer: the insulation at the back was nonexistent and the temperature regulators for both ovens were broken. I tried the restoration places, and the two that seemed capable of handling the work were on opposite coasts, California and Maine. We got tentative quotes of $5-6K for restoration, PLUS the cost of shipping a 600-pound stove...it was going to be prohibitive, and pretty much the cost of a fancy new range. Cooking on the old gal: mixed bag. Fine for heating soup, boiling pasta or doing a frozen pizza, but the flame on the burners could not be adjusted as finely as those on a modern range. It was more like having a choice of low, medium or kind of high. High-temperature cooking, like wok or searing, was not an option. My baking experience was warped by the fact that the temperature gauges were broken on my ovens. One held at about 450, whatever the setting was; the other was more consistent but became unusable when there was a crack in the gas line feeding it. On thing that really annoyed me about the range was the burner setup. I had six burners but they were in a 30" space, so big pots and pans didn't work, and it was a constant geometry game to get the pan handles where they weren't interfering with each other. I had a bank of stoves on the right which limited the size of pans that could be used on the rightmost burners. Cleaning: the burners had more exposed cast-iron than most, so spillovers were messy. But it wasn't much more of a problem to clean than any range. Overall, it was a beautiful piece but not so good to cook on. I'm a cook and needed more burner space, burner power and more reliable oven temps than that range could provide. I was happy to sell it to someone who was going to appreciate it and whose style of cooking was better suited. I linked a pic of the model I owned. Here is a link that might be useful:

I would definitely try chimney professionals. But the link you included makes it clear that this is a fireplace insert, and it sounds like you do not have a fireplace but a wood stove in a corner which also tells me you probably don't have a proper chimney, likely just the wood stove pipe? Looks like you need to have a fireplace installed as you suspected.