i have a older Mt. Vernon.
I did a complete tear down and clean 2 days ago. I found a fair amount of ash on the top of the cast plate that covers the heat tubes. I have 2 levers that you pull out with the purpose being it is supposed to scrape the fine ash off the heat tubes.
Since the cleaning I am getting noticeably higher heat out of the stove. Found little to no ash buildup in any of the combustion pathways or the combustion fan. The only place ash was really found was on top of the baffle cast plate.
I was thinking of trying to add rope gaskets on the 3 sides of the plate to try to keep the ash from getting on the heat tubes. I don't want to damage the plate or the stove but was thinking if the heat tubes could be kept ash free that I would get that much more heat from the stove and the pellets I'm burning. The bottom side of the plate already has a rope gasket on it.
Any thoughts on attempting to do this.
I did a complete tear down and clean 2 days ago. I found a fair amount of ash on the top of the cast plate that covers the heat tubes. I have 2 levers that you pull out with the purpose being it is supposed to scrape the fine ash off the heat tubes.
Since the cleaning I am getting noticeably higher heat out of the stove. Found little to no ash buildup in any of the combustion pathways or the combustion fan. The only place ash was really found was on top of the baffle cast plate.
I was thinking of trying to add rope gaskets on the 3 sides of the plate to try to keep the ash from getting on the heat tubes. I don't want to damage the plate or the stove but was thinking if the heat tubes could be kept ash free that I would get that much more heat from the stove and the pellets I'm burning. The bottom side of the plate already has a rope gasket on it.
Any thoughts on attempting to do this.
