Gauge adapters

What size is that? I bought a 1/8 in ( the smallest they had. Does not fit in the hole.

 

Sorry...but I don't remember the size.

 

cant you drill the body of the stove to the size you want, then, when done, simply remove the tubing and plug the hole with a bolt, washer, and nut?

 

wow! that's not much draft....pretty interesting how they all differ.

 

I know.... I even looked it up on the service tech manual to make sure.

 

The location of the draft port varies with the model. I usually like to take draft readings at, or near, the vacuum switch......with, for instance, the XXV, Harman puts a Tee in the vac line to test at.....lets face it, the vac switch is where a lot happens, so, the best reading should be near it!

 

On the Enviro EV5. There is a port between the door and the ash pan.

 

I dont understand youse guys fascination with magnaledoodads.
Never ever used one.
Dont trust manuals. Do you reckon the author ran a stove for more than 10 seconds.
Use the force Luke, get it right by eye. Far better than some Micky Mouse gauge doohicky.

 

A: We like our toys,
B: and most of us haven't done multiple installs or even 1, with your business you have a perspective that few do, you get to compare how each stove performs differently from the last.
I'd imagine while developing your ballanced flue, then the stove, you did a great deal of tinkering and in the process trained your eye to recognize what works and what doesn't, the rest of us need something to aid in seeing the subtle differences the adjustments make. But mostly, we like toys.

I don't own one, i built a manometer from a piece of clear tube, a 6" ruler, a stick of wood and a few drops of water.

 

What do you mean "did"?
You only stop tinkering when you are dead.
Cough, cough...bloody smoky stove......

 

Guess that would be refering to the first stove you developed, when will version 2 be released?

 

It is a neverending story John. THe silicone grommets we are sending out to owners are on the old stove. Keep finding new things all the time which just makes it better and better. Every one of our owners is on a email databank and we regularly update with tips. Also they send me ideas which we test and then send out to everyone else. Everybody wins.
THe new stove is basically for Europe, not sure if it will get to the US. Feel free to bring a few in. Our older stove is definitely in the US. Nothing to do with us though.
Below is the last email I sent out to customers a few days back. Bear in mind that we are in one of the coldest regions of Australia and this email goes all around the country;


Hi All,


We are still burning down here in Ballarat. The fire is getting a run many mornings and the odd evening. We have been running on straight olive pits all year without any issues. With this year’s hard finish to the grain season in most areas this may be an alternative for many. It does look like the price of grain is going to be down this year so that helps. Chase your grain now, don’t wait until winter when it is all gone.


I have gone off the Asan cat litter as I was finding it burnt away too fast. We are back to the Breeders Choice and if the stove is set right there are not any problems.


You will see in the attached photo we have made a new rubberised mount for the exhaust blower. We just replace the solid mounted screws with new screws with silicone grommets which insulate the fan motor from the body of the stove. This has no effect on the performance of the stove. It does however stop any exhaust motor vibration transferring into the stove body. The result of this is to remove the harmonic droning sound which some stoves develop. The stove in our house has always been quite noisy in this respect, with the new mounts the drone has almost completely stopped.


If you are not concerned about the noise of the stove or you do not have the drone. Do nothing.


If you want to give it a go, with the right tools, ie small enough to get the fan motor out, it is a straightforward job. The most difficult part is the delicate wire connections to the motor. There is a trick to getting them off so talk to me before you try it.


I am happy to post out the kit of screws, grommets, nuts and washers free of charge to anyone who emails and asks. Please include your postal address in the email. Alternatively anyone who brings their stove over for a service or brings me their fan I will do the changeover on the spot.


Obviously give your stove a good clean out if you have the fan out. Remember to check your SmartBurn to see if you a new one.


We have found that by running on temp and having the room temp set a little higher so the fire runs hotter is helping the stove run cleaner. On pits we find 24 degrees is best. Wheat around 22 degrees. Just try it and see how you go.


Cheers,

Darron.

 

Holy Mackerel...

 

Need a cool little tapered cone that will fit in a bugs butt with a barb on the other end for the hose.

May have to make one.

I have the mag gauge, just need the bug butt probe

 

Love bio fuel.

WE use nut shells, love them.

 

Hi Snowy,
I see you have masher fingers like mWE.
What sort of nut shells and do you grind them up? THey would need to be fairly fine to flow?
Shells would be pretty high in ash too wouldn't they?
Do you dry em out?

 

It's just like a old school auto mechanic, adjust by ear/feel. Today's technology changed everything for the old schoolers. There's still applications in the auto industry that has a place for old school. You do whatever works for you and that's how you figure things up. Today's stoves are very similar and a lot hasn't changed over the years mind you, you do get to have one popping here & there. So old school tinkerers are still at home with stoves and we still learn from them. We have also different ways of coming across to explain things especially from different regions of the world. When I hear comments of Frogs, it comes across my way totally different than the way you view it because I'm french. I do not let it bother me as we have no collections on how it comes across each other. So a Mag gauge can be in my tool kit some day when I acquire one. Hope I made sense

 

Chicken.

We use hazelnut shells.
The nuts are dried, cracked and the meat removed.
The remaining material is run out of the plant and goes through a trash fan to break it up.

Stuff is nice and dry and fairly coarse in size with many pieces the size of a fingernail.
The stuff has about 2 x the ash of pellets, but the price is a penny and a half a pound.

I heat a 2400 sq ft home for under $100 a season

We fill the dumpster at the plant, then bring it home and put it in barrels and store indoors.

Here are some pix

More waste biomass products, not much different than the pits you folks use.

Stoves need a bit more tending as there is a tendency to clinker some.
Also the shells do not roll down the hopper as easy in some stoves.
Not a big worry.

For the cheap $$$$$$ I can put up with the slight issues.

Clean stoves more often.
Our little Whitfield gets a cleaning every 3-4 days and the big Whit is Weekly.

Only exception is if it is real cold, then we will do a "Quicky" hot clean (Fire barely out)
and then when weather permits, cool it off and do it up well with a complete clean and a suck with the leaf blower.

 

Ivanhoe

Sounds good to me.

We are all just "Folks"
No matter where we call home.