Out With the Wood, in With Coal- "The 350 Build"

 
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Post by WOODSUCKS » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:22 pm

Well, a couple weeks ago I went over to stokerscot's to see the much talked about Stoker,I was quite impressed after spending the past 6 months cutting, splitting, stacking,loading,hauling, restacking and babysitting a minium of 3 times per day if not more, every day woodboiler.Then after all that and a hard days work I would end up with a cold shower, Needless to say woodboilers are very inconsistant and just require way too much attention. So I decided to go with a stoker, Scrapper23jr had a EFM 350 and stockerscot was making a trip to pa, So I was able to get the 350, I spent lhe last week after work gathering up all the stuff for the install,Got everything put together except the wiring, Fri night stokerscot [ electricial contractor] came over and wired it up, We lit her off and in about 1 hr she was up and running, with the "donated "By stokerscot, Calvin's deep mined coal. Everythings running smooth except a grinding noise from the gear box that is every 1/2 revolution of the auger? Stokerscot came back over this morning and we took the auger assy all apart and didn't see anything, put it all back together and same thing? Well we'll figure it out, Here's some pics of the build and the not so missed wood boiler, thanks to stokerscot for all the help and scrapper23jr for the 350. thats all for now...

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Post by WOODSUCKS » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:28 pm

Some more pics!!!

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Startin her up !!

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OOOO YEA!!!!!!!

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Post by Sting » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:31 pm

Wish I had a neighbor like that!

Congrats on the new boiler!

 
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Post by WOODSUCKS » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:32 pm

Thanks, Even had a hot shower!! :D

 
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Post by Scottscoaled » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:37 pm

Nice Dark spot in the center! :) Scott

 
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Post by WOODSUCKS » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:40 pm

I'm goin back out to sit by the 350 and have a beer!!!!!

 
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Post by CoalHeat » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:51 pm

Very nice.
Now if we could just get you to switch from Beck's to Yuengling......


 
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Post by WOODSUCKS » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:56 pm

Does Yuengling go good with coal?

 
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Post by coal berner » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:58 pm

Well What was the Noise Look s good ;)

 
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Post by CoalHeat » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:58 pm

WOODSUCKS wrote:Does Yuengling go good with coal?
Perfect combination!

 
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Post by coal berner » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:59 pm

WOODSUCKS wrote:Does Yuengling go good with coal?
Around Here It Does :lol:

 
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Post by CoalHeat » Sat. Apr. 05, 2008 10:59 pm

coal berner wrote:
WOODSUCKS wrote:Does Yuengling go good with coal?
Around Here It Does :lol:
:cheers: :yes:

 
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Post by stoker-man » Sun. Apr. 06, 2008 7:04 am

Check if the auger shaft is rubbing against the cast iron, where it goes through the base of the stoker. What is the serial number on the stoker? It's at least 30 years old.

 
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Post by Sting » Sun. Apr. 06, 2008 8:04 am

How do you pull clinkers out of that little port hole?

 
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Post by WOODSUCKS » Sun. Apr. 06, 2008 8:37 am

As you can see I'm new to coal burning, So what the heck is a " clinker "?


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