New assistance operating a vermont castings vigilent with bituminous
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Vermont castings vigilent
- Hambden Bob
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- Posts: 8549
- Joined: Mon. Jan. 04, 2010 10:54 am
- Location: Hambden Twp. Geauga County,Ohio
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Harman 1998 Magnum Stoker
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Blower Model Coal Chubby 1982-Serial#0097
- Coal Size/Type: Rice-A-Roni ! / Nut
- Other Heating: Pro-Pain Forced Air
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- carlherrnstein
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- Posts: 1542
- Joined: Tue. Feb. 07, 2012 8:49 am
- Location: Clarksburg, ohio
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: combustioneer model 77B
- Coal Size/Type: pea stoker/Ohio bituminous
I have one and ran it for a season an found a bit stoker to replace it (my wife had a hard time tending it).
There is a newer model that I had and an older one. Mine has the ashpan that sits in a tray on the ashdoor and swings out with the door. It also takes some firetools one is a slicer that fits between the grates an a handle for the shaker grate.
There is a restrictor plate in there I can't remember for sure but, I think I had to take it out.
Set the internal damper so the smoke goes out the pipe and leave it there. Start your wood fire, and add some orange to grapefruit sized pieces of coal once the wood is burning. Keep adding coal a little at a time.
Now the don'ts do not close the internal damper so the smoke spends more time in the stove unless the coal has burned to coke. You will starve the fire for air and it will burn very poorly and soot up the stove and chimney.
Do not completely cover the fire with fresh coal or it will poof.
Do not run it hard enough to make any part of it glow, it's easier than you might think.
There is a newer model that I had and an older one. Mine has the ashpan that sits in a tray on the ashdoor and swings out with the door. It also takes some firetools one is a slicer that fits between the grates an a handle for the shaker grate.
There is a restrictor plate in there I can't remember for sure but, I think I had to take it out.
Set the internal damper so the smoke goes out the pipe and leave it there. Start your wood fire, and add some orange to grapefruit sized pieces of coal once the wood is burning. Keep adding coal a little at a time.
Now the don'ts do not close the internal damper so the smoke spends more time in the stove unless the coal has burned to coke. You will starve the fire for air and it will burn very poorly and soot up the stove and chimney.
Do not completely cover the fire with fresh coal or it will poof.
Do not run it hard enough to make any part of it glow, it's easier than you might think.