983 red hot

 
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Post by Wildmandt » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 11:37 am

Hey guys
Need more advice.
Got this 983 going and it is a monster.
This is the second time I have had this happen right under the door it gets red hot. That can’t be good
What can I do to stop this?


 
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Post by Lightning » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:11 pm

What are you burning in there?
Plutonium?

 
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Post by Hoytman » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:16 pm

Lightning wrote:
Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:11 pm
What are you burning in there?
Plutonium?
Lee...this guy quoted above...you got a good man helping you there. Listen to him.
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Post by Shaun643 » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:16 pm

Looks like you have a lot of air getting in from underneath. Check all your gaskets

 
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Post by Hoytman » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:31 pm

Don’t know where Lee went.

First step close those ash pan vents fully, them give it a couple minutes to see if temps drop.

Open all stove and pipe dampers to let the heat up the chimney. Give it a few minutes to see if temps drops.

Where did you go, Lee??

 
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Post by Lightning » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:33 pm

Oh I'm here lol.
Still wonderin what he's got burning in there.

 
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Post by Lightning » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:35 pm

Oh I'm here lol.
Still wonderin what he's got burning in there.

High vol bituminous?


 
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Post by Hoytman » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:35 pm

Good, Lee...I feel more comfortable with your experience here. Good questions that need answered.

 
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Post by Hoytman » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:38 pm

Been an hour since he posted. I hope everything is ok. Wow!

 
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Post by Toddburn » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:56 pm

Dam… only two possibilities gasket on door and did you fill in your legs holes under the stove? Your sucking some serious air judging from the ash pan door holes showing that much glow.

 
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Post by Toddburn » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 12:59 pm

Do you have a big steel plate below the damper? Missing maybe?

 
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Post by Toddburn » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 1:09 pm

Also judging from the photo your coal level looks way low should be to the top of the fire bricks mounded in the middle so you can control the fire. Your stove will fill up with ash in the front to kind of insulate that steel where you are glowing after a day or so of burning.

 
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Post by Lightning » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 1:17 pm

Toddburn wrote:
Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 1:09 pm
Also judging from the photo your coal level looks way low should be to the top of the fire bricks mounded in the middle so you can control the fire. Your stove will fill up with ash in the front to kind of insulate that steel where you are glowing after a day or so of burning.
Should there be a row of firebrick where the red hot steel is showing above the ash door?

 
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Post by Toddburn » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 1:22 pm

No Lee doesn’t come that way Keepaeyeonit modified his with a row however. I have the brick and angle steel cut to do mine but never did. As I said after a few days of burning the ash builds up there and insulates. Been 3 years and no problems for me.

 
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Post by Lightning » Sat. Dec. 04, 2021 1:26 pm

Oh ok cool, good to know. I read his older posts he said he burned tractor supply coal which of course would be anthracite. But that fire he just posted doesn't appear to be anthracite? Maybe he's get some wood or bit coal in there.


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