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- StokerDon
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I spent a little time today cleaning up this side of the boiler and Anthrastat area.
Since this auger is bent, where is couples to the transfer head everything moves around. This is causing crushed coal to leak out at the coupling.
I installed this part of an old lamp as a catch can for the coal and oil. I might make something better later, but for right now, this will work.
We've got a pretty healthy gofer hole already!
I removed the top slat on the coal bin door. I currently have no way to measure the coal usage. Looks like we are still at 80 to 100 pounds per day. I have nothing to base that estimate on other than what the bin looked like before.
In other news, I treated the Axeman to a set of new green belts.
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I think they all toss a little pile of small chips where the auger transitions to the head. Mine spits bigger chips at the hanging port cover. The shelf in front is always littered with its dribbling. It's like having a retarded child.
- StokerDon
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
It's good to know that this is normal then. All the more reason to make a catch pan for it.coaledsweat wrote: ↑Mon. Jan. 15, 2018 7:19 pmI think they all toss a little pile of small chips where the auger transitions to the head. Mine spits bigger chips at the hanging port cover. The shelf in front is always littered with its dribbling. It's like having a retarded child.
Mine spits coal and ash out the view port to. After there is a good fire going and then it shuts down, the new crackling coal spits pieces at the fire door, "Ding,,,,, Ding,,, Ding!". Some of this ends up on the shelf.
-Don
- coaledsweat
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Yup, add up all the sounds it makes and you'd swear you had a Fischer-Price toy!
- StokerDon
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- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
- swyman
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Hey SD, enjoyed the video! I noticed that you placed the draft control just before it leaves the building. I placed mine as close as I could to the boiler....what change would happen if I moved mine to that location instead. Just wondering if it would make a difference with fly ash? NOTE: I do run a power vent.
- hotblast1357
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It would do nothing, it just controls the draft.
- coaledsweat
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Ideally they should be in the middle of a straight run of pipe to obtain a laminar flow. That said, it probably won't make a discernable difference.
- swyman
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There is a higher velocity down stream though correct? Assuming that you are pulling a harder draft than what it is set for.... I try to adjust my draft so the butterfly is just bouncing a bit.
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U should adjust ur draft so that the manometer reads whatever it’s supposed to! Not what the baro is doing.
- swyman
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Correct, but I can adjust the draft with the rheostat and then set the baro door to open if you exceed set draft? Unless I'm doing it wrong? I set it to open if you draw harder than -.04 at the boiler breech as in when the combustion fans shut down in idle fire. The crappy thing with the PV is it runs all the time so when the combustion fans stop there is a huge excess of draft. Does the same thing happen with a chimney?hotblast1357 wrote: ↑Wed. Jan. 17, 2018 9:05 amU should adjust ur draft so that the manometer reads whatever it’s supposed to! Not what the baro is doing.
- hotblast1357
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A chimney drafts what it drafts, we just set the weight on the baro so that it starts to open when we exceed the limited draft setting.
- swyman
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Perfect, same thing I'm doing!hotblast1357 wrote: ↑Wed. Jan. 17, 2018 10:26 amA chimney drafts what it drafts, we just set the weight on the baro so that it starts to open when we exceed the limited draft setting.
- StokerDon
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Thanks!swyman wrote: ↑Wed. Jan. 17, 2018 7:29 amHey SD, enjoyed the video! I noticed that you placed the draft control just before it leaves the building. I placed mine as close as I could to the boiler....what change would happen if I moved mine to that location instead. Just wondering if it would make a difference with fly ash? NOTE: I do run a power vent.
I sorry to say I don't know much about power vents, but I also don't understand your question about fly ash. Do you have fly ash coming out your baro?
My baro is at the base of the chimney on this one because I had to put it in the 8" part of the stove pipe. It's a 7" baro. The rest of the pipe is 5".
-Don