Aside from the fire box area, it's components, the blower and the combustion exhaust blower, what else is suggested? Things cleaned up nice...... needed it, forgot to take a pic of the combustion blower
my suggestion is to do this in the Spring, once you're sure you're done with the stove. Then you can lubricate and oil, minimizing summer rust accumulation on the metal components. When folks don't clean in the spring, its tougher to do in the fall, AND you deal with more rust from our humid summers........just a thought!
Sounds good.......... aside from the blower being really dirty, the rest wasn't as bad. I did a test fire this morning. Everything ran good!
You are off to a good start. I can't recall what stove you have, but the rule for all pellet stoves is that they need to be kept clean or they won't run right. Are you familiar with the leaf blower cleaning method? If not, go to YouTube and watch a few vids. same for stove cleaning. Some stoves are very very fussy. Like my Napoleon was. This Harman is a breeze to clean and to keep clean. I don't sift my pellets to get the fines out. My stove doesn't mind them at all. My room air intake is the one I have to watch. I have 6 long haired cats and they make a lot of fur that gets sucked up.
My stove is in my sig, timber ridge 49 trcpm, about a week ago, I cleaned the exhaust pipe so she is ready to rock. It will be moved next season into another room.
Are you planning on a wood stove for next year? That is your best $ value. Esp. when you are young and healthy and have an abundant access to wood. I would have cord wood again in a heart beat, but it isn't realistic for me. So pellets works out just fine. The problem is this year, burning pellets cost more than oil. Now that is rare. We burn the pellets because there is no other heat that compare to wood heat for comfort. My feeling about it anyway.
I agree with you. Yes, the plan is to put a woodstove where the pellet stove currently sits, in the family room and place the pellet stove in the living room. Our home is open concept for the most part.
Looks like you're off to a good start Well Seasoned .. And imacman definitely has the most "run time" on this model. I had one for a bit and sold it to my parents. They had it for 2 years and I cared/cleaned it. They are solid stoves and will burn anything.
When I had my Whitfield I used to run it till out of pellets every now and again and vacuum out the fines from the auger base. Then I'd wax the sides of the bin to keep the pellets moving toward the bottom. Oiled the motors with a high heat synthetic oil in a pen. Vacuumed dust out of everywhere and checked and changed gaskets as needed. In the 10+ years I had it I had no problems except the brain fried after I ran it off a generator. Dirty power will ruin electronics.
I am pretty sure they make a regulator/rectifier or something like that to clean up the dirty electricity, but it was expensive, as I remember. Honda generators deliver clean electricity, and that is why they are so expensive.
