BTW, the price of a KAA-2 in a normal situation, installed is around $5000.00. Thats labor and parts.
I fired mine 1/6/06. Not only did I recoup the expense, I'm now saving. Profiting,I think so.
David
I have a Keystoker stove - it's an older 90K Btu model with the direct vent option. I picked it up as a "basket case" for $850 and spent last summer getting all the packed in fly-ash and rust out of it, and stripping the outside down to bare metal and repainting it all. New glass, gaskets, ash pans, hopper lid, and a a few blower motors, and it looks (and runs) like a new unit.
I'm pretty far from anthracite country (in Illinois past Chicago) - but I have a local stove shop that carries coal stoves and bagged coal (Blasch@k) for a pretty decent price considering.
I'd rather burn the local, downstate bituminous, but there is a total lack of good, stoker fired stoves that will burn it, and I won't run it in a hand fed because there is also a lack of units designed to burn it and it burns much less cleanly in a hand fed.