EFEL Symphony

 
franco b
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Coal Size/Type: nut and pea

Post by franco b » Fri. Dec. 29, 2017 1:01 pm

Use the highest setting, which will put the most coal into the fire pot as long as it doesn't spill out the front door. Even then you could put some sort of bar across to prevent that.

The goal is to have the fire pot as full as possible for a long burn. The more coal there is burning, the longer the burn for a given heat output.

You will have to develop what system of clearing ash works best. How often will depend on how high the heat setting is and amount of coal burned. A simple shake might suffice in mild weather at low output. Experiment with shaking , slicing and poking to find what works best under varying conditions.

 
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Post by dandello » Mon. Mar. 19, 2018 5:48 am

franco b wrote:
Fri. Dec. 29, 2017 1:01 pm
You will have to develop what system of clearing ash works best. How often will depend on how high the heat setting is and amount of coal burned. A simple shake might suffice in mild weather at low output. Experiment with shaking , slicing and looking for best outdoor fire pit guide works best under varying conditions.
Great advice!


 
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Hand Fed Coal Stove: Efel Arden giant 084-65
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Coal Size/Type: Stove nut and pea
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Post by ohabanero » Sat. Feb. 08, 2020 12:29 pm

Regarding the symphony that started this thread... This stove is most certainly for anthracite pea and does have a shaker in the picture titled "damper" theres a bar sticking up at the top corner between the enameled casting and the heat shield. That bar should connect to the grate in the rear center of the stove if it's not broken off. You will find however that the slicer bar is considerably more effective to the point I don't even use the shaker because the grate simply pivots a little and doesn't really knock the ash around enough to get it moving like the slicer tool does. You have a slicer port in the side of the stove below your radiant fins. I've never seen this stove but it looks like a winner. Slicer bar is simply a piece of bar stock from Lowe's with some type of comfortable handle on one end. To make one you can simply bend the bar stock over on itself for a usable handle and then cut to the correct length to get you in and across the entire grate area. Cut it just long enough to reach under the vertical grate teeth on the opposite side allowing you to clear the area between the vertical grate teeth and the bottom coal grate. Soon I will post pictures in a new thread about all this and more pertaining to Efel coal stoves........................................................
Regarding the later post showing a wood version of the symphony... This is the same stove but with different innards. You could probably convert this to coal if it has side door slicer ports. It would require some ingenuity but would not be too difficult. A fixed grate open to the pan area at the proper height to slice and a front fire gate are pretty much all you would need to add. Removing some wood exclusive parts would be required.

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