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Blow back cleaning of pellet vent pipe?

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  1. don2222

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    Hello
    Anyone try this?
     
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    I've seen that used on drier vents(commercial) but never a stove. I'd be worried it would get past the door seals and soot the shack up!

    Leaf blower sucking out and brush from inside seems safer?
     
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    Smoke Show where for art thou?
     
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    I prefer the gas leaf blower too. The electric ones just do not have the power. I actually fixed 2 St Croix stoves because nothing else worked. Also made pvc adapters for 4” or 3” venting and I always disconnect the vacuum switch hose first. :)
    4” venting

    And
    3” venting
    https://m.youtube.com/shorts/LeVfYztR9Q0
     
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    Not unhooking the vacuum hose is a real sketchy move......The diaphragm can be damaged.........
     
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    He had a good video of the poof he makes. Not sure its from his bodily functions though?? o_O

    :eek: :doh: :headbang:
     
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    damm, woman, where did your love of living dangerously go?
     
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    Do mine like this with a shop vac blowing or i have an attachment rigged up to use the electric leaf blower, no need to blow all that mess towards the stove or go out in the cold.
     
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    My 4" venting is all on the outside so every spring I take it apart and pressure wash it inside. From the stove through the wall to the 3-4" increaser Tee, I pull the bottom cleanout and stick my handy-dandy Harbor Freight 20 volt Bauer blower in the stove end of the pipe (when I have the draft fan out) and blow the pipe out with a bucket underneath to catch the chunks. Works like a charm.
     
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    Not that we are making much ash right now anyway. Stove has been off for 2 weeks now. In the 70's during the day, 50's at night so I let the new Plus 95 condensing furnace warm the house in the morning. Runs 5 minutes maybe a day.

    No way can I run the biomass stove. Would be unbearable in here.
     
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    We may need more info on this.I'm intrigued.:nerd::sherlock:
     
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    Wrong DIAPHRAGM......That one does not have a hose on it :rofl: :lol:
     
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