Quad Castile Problems

[tjnamtiw]

Smokey's right. Take off the six nuts and the whole thing will come out, bird and all. That's great that it's all working! Saved yourself some serious cash. As for the igniter, on my stove at least it shuts off when EITHER you hit the 600 degree (red light) OR the timer times out.
On the ash dump, remove the nut on the bottom of the pivot point and the whole plate should drop down. If it's rusted, you might need a BFH! Once you get it apart, put some Never-Sieze on the bolt and put the nut back on just far enough that the plate has no more clearance than the thickness of a dime on the side across from the pivot. In other words, it can hang down with a gap of no more than a dime's thickness.

Again, congrats

 

[Czech]

And you'll need a new gasket unless you are super careful!

 

[stoaf88]

There should be 6 small screws around those 3.

Put those 3 back in and remove the Six 1/4" screws.

Yea thanks I figured it out.

The stove runs real nice now. I took out both the combustion and convection motors. Pretty much took every other part of the stove off too. Cleaned and oiled both motors, and all passages through the stove.

Now I just sanded down every piece of the stove including the firebricks, and tomorrow I will paint everything and put it all back together.

Thanks again

 

[stoaf88]

Smokey's right. Take off the six nuts and the whole thing will come out, bird and all. That's great that it's all working! Saved yourself some serious cash. As for the igniter, on my stove at least it shuts off when EITHER you hit the 600 degree (red light) OR the timer times out.
On the ash dump, remove the nut on the bottom of the pivot point and the whole plate should drop down. If it's rusted, you might need a BFH! Once you get it apart, put some Never-Sieze on the bolt and put the nut back on just far enough that the plate has no more clearance than the thickness of a dime on the side across from the pivot. In other words, it can hang down with a gap of no more than a dime's thickness.

Again, congrats

I put some penetrating oil on the bottom of the firepot plate and wiggled and hit it gently with a hammer and screwdriver and broke it free. Its working well now.

 

[stoaf88]

And you'll need a new gasket unless you are super careful!

The gasket came off in 1 piece, never ripped or slpit.

 

[stoaf88]

Anyone know the best place to order the 125 degree snap disk for the convection motor?

I checked a few places and found one for $15 plus shipping, does that sound about right?

 

[tjnamtiw]

IMHO, you really want a snap disk for the convection blower with a lower set point. The sooner you can get it on, the more heat is NOT going up the flue. (broken link removed)

This one closes at 110 and opens at 90. Several of us have gotten adjustable snap disks from Grainger. I ended up with mine closing at 110 and opening at 90, just by coincidence. The air coming out when it's close to 90 feels cool but in reality it is still above room temperature so you are sucking every last bit of heat out of the stove. If you went with the 125, your fan would shut off while the stove was still at 105 degrees and you'd waste the heat.

 

[heat seeker]

I like my blowers to shut off a bit early, and figure the heat still in the stove will find its way into the room, and I'm not blowing the heat still in the burn chamber outdoors as the combustion blower still runs, and sucking cold air in through the OAK.

 

[stoaf88]

IMHO, you really want a snap disk for the convection blower with a lower set point. The sooner you can get it on, the more heat is NOT going up the flue. (broken link removed)

This one closes at 110 and opens at 90. Several of us have gotten adjustable snap disks from Grainger. I ended up with mine closing at 110 and opening at 90, just by coincidence. The air coming out when it's close to 90 feels cool but in reality it is still above room temperature so you are sucking every last bit of heat out of the stove. If you went with the 125, your fan would shut off while the stove was still at 105 degrees and you'd waste the heat.

Thanks a lot for the link.

Just ordered

 

[tjnamtiw]

I like my blowers to shut off a bit early, and figure the heat still in the stove will find its way into the room, and I'm not blowing the heat still in the burn chamber outdoors as the combustion blower still runs, and sucking cold air in through the OAK.

The cold outside air is being sucked through the heavy cast burnpot, past the still hot heat transfer tubes that are no longer transfering heat, the cast back plates and out through the flue. Lost heat.

 

[stoaf88]

Got the stove all put back together and cleaned and painted.

Just waiting on the snap disk to come in from grainger.

 

[DexterDay]

Wow..... Looks Awesome. You did a good job troubleshooting and also cleaning, lubing, and painting. You should be proud. You got one hell of a deal

Now get that bad hoy inside the house where it belongs

(What heat setting was the pic with the flame?)

 

[stoaf88]

Wow..... Looks Awesome. You did a good job troubleshooting and also cleaning, lubing, and painting. You should be proud. You got one hell of a deal

Now get that bad hoy inside the house where it belongs

(What heat setting was the pic with the flame?)

Does the flame look too high?

That is with the heat on high and the pellet gate all the way open

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Does the flame look too high?

That is with the heat on high and the pellet gate all the way open

What does the book say it should be?

 

[stoaf88]

I think around 2 inches above the burnpot.

This pic was right afterI hit reset twice though so there would be a good flame.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

I think around 2 inches above the burnpot.

This pic was right afterI hit reset twice though so there would be a good flame.

Makes it hard to judge if it isn't during normal operation whether or not you have it setup correctly.

My memory from reading seems to think it is 4" on high with the gate adjusted but I've read so many manuals lately that my memory might not be correct.

 

[stoaf88]

Makes it hard to judge if it isn't during normal operation whether or not you have it setup correctly.

My memory from reading seems to think it is 4" on high with the gate adjusted but I've read so many manuals lately that my memory might not be correct.

Ok the gate is all the way open and it rarely if ever gets 4 inches above the pot withot hitting reset.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Ok the gate is all the way open and it rarely if ever gets 4 inches above the pot withot hitting reset.

I just checked the manual and it is on page 24 and is 4" now hopefully the manual I have is for your particular stove year, did you get the manuals with the stove?

ETA: I just verified the other two manuals for the Castile and it is 102 mm or 4" color bright yellow white.

 

[stoaf88]

Yea I got the manual.

The flame seems fine to me.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Then install it and enjoy.

 

[SwineFlue]

Yea I got the manual.

The flame seems fine to me.

Great job, glad you got it running!

The Quad website has the current manual on-line. My original manual (Feb '02) accurately describes my stove, but the newer ones have much better (IMO) cleaning, maintaining, and troubleshooting sections.

 

[tjnamtiw]

BEAUTIFUL! When you get the snap disk, I forgot to mention, you will see that the 'ears' are set back away from the contact surface so you'll have to use longer screws and possibly drill a hole for a self tapping screw if the distance between the holes is different from the original. No big deal, though, considering that you obviously are quite handy.

 

[Dinger]

I love that color; what is it? Besides flat black...

 

[stoaf88]

BEAUTIFUL! When you get the snap disk, I forgot to mention, you will see that the 'ears' are set back away from the contact surface so you'll have to use longer screws and possibly drill a hole for a self tapping screw if the distance between the holes is different from the original. No big deal, though, considering that you obviously are quite handy.

Thanks for the link for that snap disc.

Yea it shouldnt be too hard to install, it will get in there somehow or another.

 

[stoaf88]

I love that color; what is it? Besides flat black...

Dont know what you mean.

Flat black is the only color