Ashford smell

[tabner]

My Ashford 20 is now giving me the smoke/creosote/barbecue smell whenever I run it on medium/high. Especially if the blower is on.
My chimney is lined and tall, and it’s in the low teens here, I have good draft.
I know there have been a lot of threads in the past about Ashfords and the smell - is the general consensus in those situations that it’s generally a door/gasket adjustment?
The stove turns down fine, so I assumed the door gasket was OK, but perhaps there could still be some minor misalignment or compression of the gasket?
After this cold snap passes I’ll do a dollar bill test, but I just wanted to see what the usual/common culprit ended up being with these Ashford smells?

 

[tabner]

I meant to put this on the blaze king page. Please feel free to move it.

 

[Dieselhead]

It is my belief the gasket gets creosote soaked and when ran hot the creo bakes out of the gasket and that is the sweet bbq smell. Under certain conditions I get it in my king, it’s not exclusive to the Ashford.

 

[tabner]

It is my belief the gasket gets creosote soaked and when ran hot the creo bakes out of the gasket and that is the sweet bbq smell. Under certain conditions I get it in my king, it’s not exclusive to the Ashford.

That makes a lot of sense and seems to fit the context of what I’m experiencing.
I have almost never run the stove on high, and I am right now, and it’s definitely most pronounced during these hot burns, in the middle of the burn cycle, and with the blower on.
Perhaps I just need to run the periodic hot fire a little more frequently.

 

[BKVP]

Also, the Ashford conversations have been mostly (99%) theAF30 & AF30.1 models. AF30.2 models have had few smoke smell related concerns.
BKVP