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Actually one of my biggest "WHYs" on this, was due to that hole in the base for the cord Daniel...

The cord is fixed to the heater, turns around inside the firebox, runs out into the smokestack support.
At that point, the "modding artist" then decided to dril a hole in the base, to get it outside...instead of using the one allready there from the factory