Been lurking on the forum for about a year now. Tonight I ran into a problem with my Dutchwest 2184 catalytic stove. I started leaking smoke around the stovetop/combuster gasket. I replaced this fall with 3/8 gasket but 7/16 was called for, but I couldn't find it anywhere. So anyway I think I will try replacing with 1/2. The part that scared me was that the combuster was humming along at 1100 degrees (air intakes were open 1 turn) when the smoke start coming out from under the stovetop. I immediately opened the bypass to alleviate the combuster pressure and everything seemed fine for about 2 minutes and then all off the sudden there was like a small burst of flames (seemed like a small explosion to me) or something in the stove and it puffed smoke out the air intakes. I had about 4 pieces of poplar and two of Hickory in there at the time. The outside temp is about 50 degrees, so I don't know if that has anything to do with the little explosive burst or what. The draft seemed fine as smoke was pouring out the chimney when I opened the bypass. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
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