Well it's early yet, as I said the outdoor temp is not real low. But ya it seems to be gobbling a few less pellets. Now your brush is more efficient than mine, I just use a soft paint brush, so who knows how long that back side crud was on there. The thing is it was kind of tacky crud, sticky. So I used some glass cleaner soaked in a paper towel this time.
Since u have followed this post you know by now that it does need to be cleaned periodically.
BTW:
I checked out all of that before I bought the P61 last year. The ash pan was a perk but I was coming from coal where you empty the pan twice a day so it wasn't the major selling point of a P series stove. I think the final seal of approval was the ease of cleaning the stove overall.. And the P61 for some extra horse power. We came real close to buying the P52i actually. The other option early in selecting a stove was a St Croix. 4 stoves were in early contention to replace our coal stove. St Croix Prescott, Harmon XXV, Harman 52i and at the end but a quick win over was the P series. I really wanted to like a couple of the St Croix stoves but Harman had them beat in a few ways once the dealer got into them a bit with us. Then we tossed around the P61 vs P68 idea and vacillated back to the insert, back to the P61. One day i had to take another trip to the store just because sort of thing. The owner and sales staff had gone to a show someplace and the installer was holding down the fort. He went through the cleaning on an insert and the cleaning on a P.. You got to be kidding me I thought, night and day difference.
I know.
Really good rust and corrosion buster if you can find it: Kroil. Expensive but it works.
