That's a good idea, I'll have to try the stove shops, the library is closed unfortunately right now, we are in the depths of another Covid lockdown.
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That's a good idea, I'll have to try the stove shops, the library is closed unfortunately right now, we are in the depths of another Covid lockdown.
Check to see if the library online services are open. I have used ours quite a bit during lockdowns.
Thanks, looks like they offer curbside pickup, but they don't have a copy of the B365-17 code.
Das Jugghead
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Here's how I installed bolts in the ends of my secondary tubes - worked wonders at slowing down the secondaries.
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Today I finally got around to finishing up the secondary tubes. I found stainless steel nuts at my local Lowe's and they fit perfectly. Taking my time and performing other random chores as I went it took me just about an hour to do. Here are the nuts with information: Since they were only...
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Just a thought and my observations. I've done some testing with magnets and made a restrictor plate for the secondary air. When restricting the secondary intake it increases the primary air intake so it's unbalanced. You take from one but you increase the other. I think a damper is the only way to decrease each air intake proportionally.
Here's how I installed bolts in the ends of my secondary tubes - worked wonders at slowing down the secondaries.
Pleasant Hearth WS-2417 install/challenges/questions/observations
Today I finally got around to finishing up the secondary tubes. I found stainless steel nuts at my local Lowe's and they fit perfectly. Taking my time and performing other random chores as I went it took me just about an hour to do. Here are the nuts with information: Since they were only...
Thanks, but I wound up using 1/4" countersunk finishing washers like this. Using a deep socket as a punch I could gently drive these into the tubes, I could then take and drill them out to fine tune the airflow. I even have an excel spreadsheet made up to do this.
I've since installed a flue damper, so my stove runs a combination of both now, I now run way less restriction on the tubes than I used to, the flue damper is the largest controller.
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Your setup is different than mine but that's not what I've found. I've found the primary air either stayed the same or decreased. In my case due to running more reasonable flue temperatures, reducing the draft and reducing primary air.
In some ways I actually find a flue damper more disproportional, there's only so much flue gas that can flow through it, so when the primary is wide open the secondary's are quite small to compensate, when the primary is closed the secondary's begin to flow more, being the reason I still run a small restriction in my secondary tubes.
Ignem
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Would it work to position something like a magnetic sheet over the hole in the circumstances where you need it?
It might even work for the rectangular secondary air cover/opening.
Something like this: Amazon product ASIN B005HY9KDM
Das Jugghead
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In addition to the restrictors in the scondary tubes I also (probably illegally) modified the primary intake. Yep - I'm the guy who rips off those mattress tags too . . . . . But in all seriousness you are absolutely correct in that modifying one affects the other.
I am still contemplating the flue damper to helps slow things down.
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