1st time coal user please help me out

Critter721 · Post by **Critter721** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 7:33 pm

I new to stoves so sorry in advance! I just picked up a Nashua coal stove for my garage that I was currently using pellets in I hooked up the pipes and used some match light charcoal got a good bed of coals add my anthracite seems to be going good but I'm not getting any good heat..
I have my flue damper closed and the vent about 1/2 open on the stove I have a temp prob on the blower vent and it's about 94 I also have a temp gauge on flue and on stove it's about 150 degrees. I have no clue what I am doing

Critter721 · Post by **Critter721** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 7:36 pm

Here are some pics

Post by **StokerDon** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 7:40 pm

Welcome to the forum,

Did you fill the firebox up with coal? It's hard to imagine that a full coal fire is that cool.

Remember, an Anthracite fire needs air from underneath, NOT over the top. If you have vents in the fire door, they should be closed. Ashpan door vents should be open.

-Don

Post by **StokerDon** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 7:41 pm

That looks like a wood stove, not a coal stove. Does it even have an ashpan door?

-Don

Critter721 · Post by **Critter721** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 7:53 pm

Here is a Pic of door open

Critter721 · Post by **Critter721** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 7:57 pm

Sorry about the pics

Post by **StokerDon** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 8:16 pm

Oh, it has an ashpan area but just one big door that covers everything. The next question is, can the air from the vent knob get to the firebox? Or is there some kind of seal on the inside of the door to keep the air out of the firebox and into the ash pan?

-Don

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 8:24 pm

Any kind of flap on the back?--check what Don suggested with that front dial. Open MPD & put foil over that baro damper. Fill stove all the way & give her some time.

Critter721 · Post by **Critter721** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 8:26 pm

Here is Pic of inside door

Post by **StokerDon** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 8:49 pm

Like Fred said, cover up that baro damper with foil or something.

That fire door looks like it is designed to let some air up to the firebox. That air will go right past the coal bed and that is not good for an Anthracite fire.

You could try blocking off those holes in the door and replace that gasket between the firebox and ash pit with something a little thicker and make sure it goes the full length across the door. All this should keep air from going directly to the firebox and force most of it into the ashpan area.

-Don

Critter721 · Post by **Critter721** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 9:03 pm

Should the flue damper be open or closed

Hoytman · Post by **Hoytman** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 9:07 pm

Aren’t those holes for secondary air? Does this stove have shaker grates? I assume it does but didn’t see a shaker handle.

What’s the possibility this is a bituminous only stove?

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 9:07 pm

Try it open for a couple hrs--I never have mine closed but 1/2 way on REAL windy days. Don't even have one installed the last couple yrs--but back when--1/2 at the most on windy days. Nope, not bit only.

Post by **StokerDon** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 9:08 pm

Critter721 wrote: ↑
Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 9:03 pm
Should the flue damper be open or closed

The manual damper you normally keep open until you have a good fire going. Then you close it down to keep the chimney draft from sucking the heat out of the stove.

How tall is you chimney? That could be another problem. A short chimney won't draft well with a coal stove.

-Don

Critter721 · Post by **Critter721** » Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 9:10 pm

Hoytman wrote: ↑
Tue. Dec. 29, 2020 9:07 pm
Aren’t those holes for secondary air? Does this stove have shaker grates? I assume it does but didn’t see a shaker handle.

What’s the possibility this is a bituminous only stove?

It does have a shaker

1st time coal user please help me out

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