A friend of mine asked me to look at his stove, said it wasn't running right. When firing it up lazy flame and soot soon covered glass. Ok so we have an air flow issue.
Unit was installed 3 years ago and it has never been cleaned.
I went to adjust the sliding damper on left side of stove and it would not budge, I sprayed it with WD40, used lithium grease, tapped it with a rubber mallet and swore at it a few times, it finally pulled out but was missing a small section where it apparently had broken, it was rusty indicating to me that it had been broken for a while and probably the section missing was preventing it from sliding out. Now it will not go back in again probably due to the missing section or perhaps the manifold (?) may be warped.
I removed the fire brick covering the back wall to access the 2 inspection ports on each side of the auger they too were rusty but did manage to get them off and when I did the ash was above the port holes! So now I know it really needs a deep cleaning.
I have read the threads here on the mods regarding foil tape over the top holes of burnpot and over the airwash to increase airflow. Which I will try
If I remove the combustion motor and then the manifold (?) will I have access to the channel the accepts the sliding damper? What would be a good high temperature lube to use once i get access to to damper channel?
Since the damper adjustment is manually operated what is the damper adjustment on the control panel? a potinetmeter (sp)?
Thanks,
Mark_ms
Unit was installed 3 years ago and it has never been cleaned.
I went to adjust the sliding damper on left side of stove and it would not budge, I sprayed it with WD40, used lithium grease, tapped it with a rubber mallet and swore at it a few times, it finally pulled out but was missing a small section where it apparently had broken, it was rusty indicating to me that it had been broken for a while and probably the section missing was preventing it from sliding out. Now it will not go back in again probably due to the missing section or perhaps the manifold (?) may be warped.
I removed the fire brick covering the back wall to access the 2 inspection ports on each side of the auger they too were rusty but did manage to get them off and when I did the ash was above the port holes! So now I know it really needs a deep cleaning.
I have read the threads here on the mods regarding foil tape over the top holes of burnpot and over the airwash to increase airflow. Which I will try
If I remove the combustion motor and then the manifold (?) will I have access to the channel the accepts the sliding damper? What would be a good high temperature lube to use once i get access to to damper channel?
Since the damper adjustment is manually operated what is the damper adjustment on the control panel? a potinetmeter (sp)?
Thanks,
Mark_ms