Its pretty much the end of the burning season for me but i had some free coal from my bro, supposedly rice but seems a tad smaller pretty dusty and not as shiny as usual.
I had been mixing it in with my usual.stuff but out now so its just that. Stove been running lighter than usual since warmer. Noted today fire looked wrong, lots blue flame on top, coal seemed deeper and not red on top and hot coals going off grate, thought maybe the fines were clogging it up...so i just cleaned it and it almost looked like some moisture on inside stove on either side of of the grate-on the back wall and some greenish color. Was worried maybe too much fly ash in stove pipe, i pulled that and pretty much just a dusting...i burned prolly over 4 ton amd no issues thus far, no condensation in hopper. No elevation on co detector that is near stove..stove in basement,masonry chimney. Drafting .02-.04 currently.
Any thoughts other than bad coal?
Seems weird if stove hot how could water be inside
Ive never noticed greenish before in stove or chimney, until now.
Keystoker 90, been raining few days here, in 40-50s
Thanks
Moisture inside keystoker while running
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Was the flame clean with little or no smoke? I suspect the coal was a little on the soft side. Not good anthracite, many years ago I got urban mined coal for free, and before the forum , I was just guessing on what I was seeing. Some of it was really crap, but I had limited money and it was free.
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yea if the flu is not clogged i would blame it on the coal. 14 yrs ago when i first started burning coal friends would bring me free basement coal from craigslist to help heat the shop. one time i got a pickup load of pea coal that would not burn on it's own. and when you got it going with other coal it stank.
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Opened the combustion blower to 3/4 instead of half and seems to be doing a little better.
No clue how old this coal is but def seems subpar, i was hoping to just burn it up to get rid of it but it doesnt even seem worth it.
No clue how old this coal is but def seems subpar, i was hoping to just burn it up to get rid of it but it doesnt even seem worth it.
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My new coal is probably at least 100 million years oldlamina1982 wrote: ↑Mon. May. 13, 2019 11:46 pmOpened the combustion blower to 3/4 instead of half and seems to be doing a little better.
No clue how old this coal is but def seems subpar, i was hoping to just burn it up to get rid of it but it doesnt even seem worth it.
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Water is always there...you just won't see it if combustion it proper.
You are on right track with seeing it is smaller sized and restricts air feed a lot more.
A thinner layer on grate or greater air flow up through grate will burn this perfectly good coal...
You are on right track with seeing it is smaller sized and restricts air feed a lot more.
A thinner layer on grate or greater air flow up through grate will burn this perfectly good coal...