Some time ago I inquired if someone had a way to clean the backside of the heat exchanger tubes in a Quad Castile...Short of some fancy flexible brushes the solutions were few...Anyways I have a leaf blower and have done it both the proper way and inadvertently also the improper way blowing the air back into the stove...(Bad)
However while cleaning up the mess I had a eureka moment, and hauled out my air compressor and gun with the little blower nozzle (see attached pic)
While vacuuming, (and the combustion fan running) I blew air in and around the inside of the box, including up around the exchanger tubes and combustion fan...Man it works!! It loosened the ash and the vacuum sucked it up...In about 5 minutes I couldn't get any more ash out.....very clean!!
I plan to do the proper leaf blower trick in a few weeks when the snow is gone. but I bet there isn't much left to suck out except maybe in the pipe itself outside!...give it a try!!
However while cleaning up the mess I had a eureka moment, and hauled out my air compressor and gun with the little blower nozzle (see attached pic)
While vacuuming, (and the combustion fan running) I blew air in and around the inside of the box, including up around the exchanger tubes and combustion fan...Man it works!! It loosened the ash and the vacuum sucked it up...In about 5 minutes I couldn't get any more ash out.....very clean!!
I plan to do the proper leaf blower trick in a few weeks when the snow is gone. but I bet there isn't much left to suck out except maybe in the pipe itself outside!...give it a try!!