Baro damper?

interesting have to find way to read pressure in chamber without opening door.
Also ran at .08 all night on medium. no co or sulfur but still much condensation in hopper.
plenty of heat.
Going to pull 4 feet of my chimney.

This chimney is 100% built to Alaska recommendations.
Wondering about bad gasket possibilty on stove.
Got 4 bags of Reading Anthracite today. Will start burning it tonite to see if any difference.

Since temp outdoors came up today my draft has dropped to .06 with same fire size and baro has now closed.

must check draft in combustion chamber. good ideal.

Pull 4 feet off your chimney? I always thought taller was better with chimneys.

my theory with the chimney being the 7 feet exposed past the old chimney could be losing temp fast at low fire rates and thus losing draft. on low fire my flu is 112.

Can you post photos of the chimney and the stove/pipes?

pipes r posted will post chimney tomorrow.
Stove and draft are perfect today as long as I dont turn it down below medium low.
Coal hopper is still full of condensate.
Will put in some Reading Anthracite bagged rice tomorrow to see if indeed my coal is bad wet etc.
Chimney is not the issue. brand new 6" stainless from end to end Clears highest part of roof by 10'.
backfilled chimney with vermiculite. Burned 20 gauge stainless chimney flashing and wall plate on plasma cutter. Made custom storm collar and installed stock stainless topper. No water or air is getting through it. My draft last night was ove 1" with the baro held shut.on medium. The pipe through wall is slid inside another 8" piece of stainless. spaced with hollow stainless tubes and sealed with red fire stop.. There is no air getting through this chimney.

I think it is the coal as why is the hopper lid still soaked and coal in hopper and sides of hopper wet with condensate.???????????????

Will post chimney tomorrow and let u know how new coal goes. Stove will run out some time early tomorrow. I will then vacum and towel dry the entire stove and hopper refill and restart.

It cant be this hard.
I called my coal supplier and did not like their answers (or lack there of) to my questins losing faith in them.

Sorry, I forgot you already posted pics of the stove/pipes.
Try different coal, there is no logical reason why this problem is happening!

your telling me its nuts
just checked hopper again used hand held co detector which will detect even the smallest amount of co none present.draft is .05/1/2" . But hopper and lid are soaked still.

Maybe one of us who is in your area can stop by and have a look see and bring a bucket of known good coal to try.

wouldnt hurt. 18062
I got 4 bags of Reading Anthracite today I will light up tomorrow night.

Coalishot, Maybe it would be a good idea to take the stoker out of the stove and tear it down clean it up and reassemble it again just to be sure it's all together right. It sounds like the hopper is getting to much heat from the stoker and it shouldn't be. I'm just guess, i don't know anything about stokers just my $.02

Here is chimney. Also just restarted with different coal. Will post a results. Will say this new bagged coal is very wet. Much wetter than old coal if old coal was wet at all.

and

height tightness insulation size cleanliness are all non-possibilities.
Also at warmest part of day today on medium low my draft went down to .02.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Now I see why you want to take 4 feet off the top. Is that pipe above the cinder blocks un-insulated ?

Yes,
Thats y I think I might pull off 4 feet and still be well within code. It doesnt like drafting on low settings in warmer weather. Give me gas/or oil thats easy.