Minor Explosion in Coal Stove
- freetown fred
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Hmmm, you have a MPD? yes??? did you open it before tending--did you also have ash door cracked. And YES, put the damn hopper back in--they designed the stove to be run with it.
- paulus
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Okay, so first I'll let a flame come in by opening the ashes-door, and only then I start shaking; this is what would help. I have already placed back the hopper and I have the hole open.
I'm going to give it a try!
I'm going to give it a try!
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Thats the valve in the pipe?freetown fred wrote:Hmmm, you have a MPD?
no pipe is completely open
Whats cracked? Close?
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Yes----good---ash door just cracked, not wide open
paulus wrote:Thats the valve in the pipe?freetown fred wrote:Hmmm, you have a MPD?
no pipe is completely open
Whats cracked? Close?
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Ok
I think I've done too quickly close the ash door? too little heat.
I'm going to try
( is it bad I do not have a mpd?)
I think I've done too quickly close the ash door? too little heat.
I'm going to try
( is it bad I do not have a mpd?)
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- paulus
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- freetown fred
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Depends on how your stove is drafting--you seem to be just fine without. YES, slowly close any door you open.
paulus wrote:Ok
I think I've done too quickly close the ash door? too little heat.
I'm going to try
( is it bad I do not have a mpd?)
- paulus
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it's much better this way, thank you all,
- paulus
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yeah thanks to google translate hahah, I speak well but write bad, this is going a bitLightning wrote:
This is great. Across oceans and language barriers, we can help each other.
sorry for the mistakes
- HarMark3500
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So, I blew the chimney top off today due to a significant explosion. Nothing else happened but that.
Anyone else achieve this impressive show of incompetence?
Anyone else achieve this impressive show of incompetence?
- Lightning
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Sounds exciting We've all had our fair share of the coalsplosions hahahaHarMark3500 wrote:So, I blew the chimney top off today due to a significant explosion. Nothing else happened but that.
Anyone else achieve this impressive show of incompetence?
- HarMark3500
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I thought maybe it was only me. This was the first of this size. It actually scared me a bit.
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Been there, done that. Cracked the glass on the Harman Mark III I used to own! BOOOM! Shook the house with that one.
Always remember to NEVER feed air to a smoldering (no visible flame after loading) coal fire. Have both doors open, close ash door first, then SLOWLY close the top door, but ONLY after you see blue flame. If you do that, it will never happen again.
Always remember to NEVER feed air to a smoldering (no visible flame after loading) coal fire. Have both doors open, close ash door first, then SLOWLY close the top door, but ONLY after you see blue flame. If you do that, it will never happen again.
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Here are the remains.
Ehh, I needed a new one anyway
Ehh, I needed a new one anyway