I was cleaning the Afton bay today and while i had the leaf blower attached outside i got my portable air tank and made up a nozzle with a flexible 1/8" piece of copper line and attached it to the nozzle. I stuck it inside the ash trap door areas to get behind the fire box and i turned on the leaf blower on low and came back inside and began spraying inside the stove with the door open just enough to work the air hose.
The ash that came flying out the exhaust was impressive, with each blast of air from the gun ash was coming out and this continued for almost 10 minutes before i seen it begin to clear. This was after i vacuumed the stove out. I kindof thought there was some ash hiding in there but it was way more than i would have thought. Cleaned everything up and closed up the stove and fired it up and it's just like new again, flames is nice and sharp/hot/small/ very nice.
Just an FYI...
PS: you have to do short blasts from the nozzle while moving it around or you may have ash escape from the stove into the house!!
The ash that came flying out the exhaust was impressive, with each blast of air from the gun ash was coming out and this continued for almost 10 minutes before i seen it begin to clear. This was after i vacuumed the stove out. I kindof thought there was some ash hiding in there but it was way more than i would have thought. Cleaned everything up and closed up the stove and fired it up and it's just like new again, flames is nice and sharp/hot/small/ very nice.
Just an FYI...
PS: you have to do short blasts from the nozzle while moving it around or you may have ash escape from the stove into the house!!