May sound like a dumb question, but here goes. Would it make any difference in the performance or life of the combustor it could be turned over (180)? Only wondering because when I remove the cat to brush the fly ash off the side facing the fire, I notice that the opposite side has almost no ash on it. Also the side facing thge fire accumulates a little bit of material in the cells that is not apparent on the opposite side. Do any of you flip the cat over?
What stove? I can only decode the HK in your name because I too had one. My bk has like a flange on the cat that prevents putting it in backwards.
Fireview. Both the old style cat (which has a 2 piece cast frame) and the new steel cats cannot be fliped because of their design. Guess you could cut the tabs off of the newer steel one, but then it could not be bolted down if desired. Maybe a good question for the Woodstock guys?
I had flipped mine a couple of times. It worked both ways but I was informed by woodstock that there was an "up" Woodstock IS
I tried a couple times to flip him over...but he was getting increasingly agitated so I figured I better quit, before I get increasingly "perforated" Seriously though...good question Tim...
After a lot of afterthought, I have to admit to what I thought was my dumb queation. Every vehicle on the road today (except for older models and hybrids) has a catalytic converter on it. Same principal as our cat stoves and you don't ever take them off and revcrse dierection. Maybe it was the 2 glasses of Merlot that I had that night. Sorry guys, duhh!
My 2000 model year diesel pickup never had a catalyst either. New ones have all sorts of equipment for emissions.
Auto catalytics are directional, phased and won't work well reversed. Reversing a simple single phase wood stove catalytic with a rather short path probably wouldn't do much. Blow the ash off ? You could accomplish that with a air gun and some compressed air, or even just a paint brush.
