Thanks Again Noel, My creosote issue sounds pretty similar to yours. I will have my Ser # ran as Eric at Kinsman had suggested to make sure there is no feeder assembly issue, and see if I can get my dealer to replace the gasket. I think I have my dirty burn issue figured out, I think I got a few bad pellets for some reason. Alot of very small pieces in them, 1/4 inch. I have been taking some bags from the back of my pile, which would have come off a different pallet, they look a little different and they are burning top notch. Almost white flame, no smoke, and no black sooty crap on the inside of stove and a bag burns way longer. So, after 2 weeks of scratching my head and checking, cleaning and tinkering, it seems it has come down to a few bad bags of pellets. After I get a week in of good burning, I'm going to try a few of the ones that I think were burning crappy again and see if that is in fact the case.
I do Live in NB, 15 min from Houlton. Been to the island before, Went for a couple day tour with the wife a few years ago, Shippigan, Miscou, Stayed the night in Caraquet. Beautiful up there, some frigging windy though, haha. I was pretty interested in all the peatmoss farming operations up there, pretty neat.
We have a 2 year old pellet mill about 15 min from here. It's Crabbe Lumber, they have been lumber mill for a couple generations, three years ago or so built a pellet mill. I burned their pellets all last year, and were the best I had come across. Before that I liked the LG. I did try some of the Maine ones when they were around, and they burned really good as well. Never tried the cubex, do not see them here alot. You know, the best pellets I ever burned is when there was a big shortage here a few years back, nobody here could get pellets, and I was almost out, found some at WalMart in Houlton, they were Pennington. They had almost no ash, and it was grey in he burnpot, the heat was rediculous, and the flame burned whitehot with purple near the embers. Their bag said they were made from oak sawdust I think.
Thanks for the info, you have a Merry Christmas! My next stove will be P68, may have a few questions for you down the road.