I'm new to this forum but not without experience. I have a Glow Boy corn burning stove. I need only say that corn was $2.70 a bushel the first season I heated with it and you all know the rest. Since that first season, I have used it only with wood pellets off and on during the coldest weather. When I went to fire it up early this Winter, the thing made a terrible noise. I wanted to keep it in good running order if only to use with a generator during power outages.
I went over the stove trying to find the cause of the noise and found it was coming from the combustion blower. I tried cleaning the exhaust vent and finally I pulled the stove out and took it apart. The entire squirrel cage blower fan had rusted and fallen apart. The blades were all eaten up by rust and probably corrosion. There wasn't anything wrong with the blower motor or housing so I wanted to get a replacement blower to fix it only to find out my dealer was no longer in business. The service department at the factory says they only sell the entire blower for $200.00.
I would like to know why that happened. I know corn burns a little more corrosively than wood pellets. But that would be taken into consideration when the stove was designed, wouldn't it? Now, I have my corn stove in parts as I try to find a replacement blower fan and I wonder if it is even worth fixing the stove. Instead of saving money on heating, this has turned into a major expense. Has anyone here had a similar experience?
I went over the stove trying to find the cause of the noise and found it was coming from the combustion blower. I tried cleaning the exhaust vent and finally I pulled the stove out and took it apart. The entire squirrel cage blower fan had rusted and fallen apart. The blades were all eaten up by rust and probably corrosion. There wasn't anything wrong with the blower motor or housing so I wanted to get a replacement blower to fix it only to find out my dealer was no longer in business. The service department at the factory says they only sell the entire blower for $200.00.
I would like to know why that happened. I know corn burns a little more corrosively than wood pellets. But that would be taken into consideration when the stove was designed, wouldn't it? Now, I have my corn stove in parts as I try to find a replacement blower fan and I wonder if it is even worth fixing the stove. Instead of saving money on heating, this has turned into a major expense. Has anyone here had a similar experience?