Cheep Stoker---Will This Work?

 
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Post by McGiever » Sun. Feb. 03, 2013 9:00 pm

The same seller has a bigger 170,000 btu/hr model that works like this...underfed, yes?
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Post by Berlin » Sun. Feb. 03, 2013 9:07 pm

yup.

 
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Post by rockwood » Sun. Feb. 03, 2013 9:15 pm

I wish they were in the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embe ... ijkgeo4h80

I wonder what material that suspended baffle is made of?


 
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Post by McGiever » Sun. Feb. 03, 2013 9:32 pm

Hey *rockwood*,

They are selling and shipping to USA on ebay.

The shipping costs didn't look to bad...$129.00
I'm just not sure what costs US Customs would add on???
And we don't pay the European VAT since it is for EU export. :)

 
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Post by catpowrd » Mon. Feb. 04, 2013 10:19 am

I got kind of excited about that add on stoker. What kind of problems would that design have burning soft coal? That kind of device would work for me because it could be installed in the rear of my boiler and it pushes ash forward. My fire box is like 45" deep so I could retain grates in the front half for wood and hand firing and it would still dump ash into my ash tray. Converting my boiler to a true underfed looks like would create ash removal problems in the back.
Berlin: what kind of design were you thinking of with fire brick and an auger for a poor mans stoker?

 
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Post by Dennis » Mon. Feb. 04, 2013 10:54 am

heres a thread about add on bituminous stokers,little large for average size homes Coalman and Homesteader at National Farm Machinery Show


 
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Post by catpowrd » Mon. Feb. 04, 2013 3:10 pm

Dennis wrote:heres a thread about add on bituminous stokers,little large for average size homes Coalman and Homesteader at National Farm Machinery Show
I like some of their design ideas, nice big ash pail and an auger to fill the pail. I wonder if they are out of business, the web links don't work.

 
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Post by McGiever » Tue. Feb. 05, 2013 8:03 pm

This sites still work. http://www.lenzes.com/
**Broken Link(s) Removed**Looks like the mfgr. stopped producing them...may be some existing stock out there.

 
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Post by shorvath » Sun. Jun. 16, 2013 6:25 pm

you should have no problem burning wood in bottom feed stoker fired boiler :)

burning wood in bottom feed stoker is not a problem

 
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Post by Pacowy » Mon. Jun. 17, 2013 3:18 pm

I'm under the impression that people have had reasonable success burning stoker bit and wood pellets in underfeed anthracite conversion stokers.

Mike

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