Reading Juniata Help

Ok thanks

Jim what is the location of your magnetic thermometer? I have mine right above the top door where it is just single wall where you will see max temp. If you have it located on stove where there is convection air chamber behind it, the reading will be much cooler. Just my thought on cleaning out under the grate. I don't take my grate off to clean under it due to the fact of damaging gaskets like you are running into. It is very easy to remove the combustion blower and vacuum under the grate from the back side so as not to disturb the gaskets all the time. Just my 2 cents. Hopefully your getting things dialed in.

Hoss

My magnetic thermomete is attached to the front of the stove right above the top door

So how do you clean it? Do you remove the 4 screws that hold it in place. Will do anything to avoid messing up the gasket again once I fix it

Jim, with stove shut down remove the cap nut that connects the rod to your carpet plate. Then remove the wing nut and bolt shown in the pictures. Once this is done the whole combustion assembly will slide out exposing about a 2" by 2" whole that you can use to clean out under the grate with a shop vac edge tool.

Thanks Hoss that is a lot easier then taking the grate off every time. How often do you vacume it out?

About every 2 Months I will shut the stove down and vacuum under the grate. But it is very important to vacuum the horizontal exhaust tube in the stove and the horizontal flue pipe every 3 to 4 weeks. I put a tee fitting with a cap on it in my horizontal flue pipe for easy cleaning. You can actually idle the stove down all the way and I can pull the baro damper out and take tee cap off to vacuum them out with the stove still lit. Makes it very convenient and you don't lose your fire.

Hoss

Hoss

Thanks for all the help you have been giving me. Would have struggled without the help.

Around how much coal do you burn a day. I went through around 60 lbs between last night and early this afternoon. Is that about right or am I burning a lot more because of the missing / bad gaskets and maybe having the damper set wrong. Just trying to figure out how much coal I will need to get me through the rest of the season. Right now I am buying bags from Ace at 6.50 for 40 lb.

What is a good temp to set the thermostat to, my girlfriend likes it hot and wants to set it at around 80. Can this stove handle that. Trying to heat the basement and first floor. Basement is around 1000 sq ft unfinished and first floor is around 850 (2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and the rest is open concept kitchen / living room / dinning room

I keep my thermostat set 70*. It is all personal preference and how well you have your stove moving air through your house. I am asking to much from my unit and will probably upgrade to a bigger unit next year. I am heating 1500sq feet of unfinished basement along with 1500sq feet on the first floor and 1000sq feet on the second floor. I have alot of high ceilings and lots of glass all working against me. I have 4 supply registers cut into my first floor, 2 at each far end of the house. In the middle on my lower landing I have a register cut through the wall into my basement with an 8" fan on the other side pulling air from the upstairs back to the stove. This setup has worked great for me moving the air around. I can keep my basement 73*, first floor at the set temperature of 70* no problem until it gets below 20* outside then first floor will suffer and might get down to 67* which still isn't terrible. When it's 20* or below I can burn 100# a day. I still look at it this way, if I was heating with my oil burner my set temp would be 68* all the time and the money I used to spend on 2 Months of oil just about heats me all winter now on coal.

Here is my fire after I changed the gaskets. I think the fire looks good but please let me know.

Stove still showing a temp between 300 and 400.

The only thing left to do is check the draft. Waiting for the manometer to come in. Hopefully on Monday

Hey Jim, how's things running these days? Did you get straightened out?

Hoss

Thanks for asking

It seems to be running ok. Got the stove temp up to around 400 and the house temp between 68 and 72 depending on the outside temp. Still not running as good as you and some other people but I can live with it for now Just got my manometer in the other day but have not installed it yet. Waiting till the next time I shut the stove down for cleaning. Maybe that will help some once it is installed.

Glad your doing better, I was looking at your pictures again and I noticed your thermometer is higher up towards the air chamber than mine. I have mine pushed down against the top of the door when it's closed. It's a shot in the dark but I was thinking that might be why your not seeing the higher temps on your stove front. Did you ever redo all your gaskets on the doors?

Yes the gaskets were changed on the two doors and under the grate. Will move the thermometer and see if that changes anything. As long as it keeps the house warm I am good. It is a lot better then using the baseboard heating like I did for a while.

Jim just wondering where your from? Since I started reading your thread very late on after you got things going, I would not put alot of stock in those thermometers especially when comparing others reading, to many variables,were they are mounted,calibration ect. I have several of them and they read different at the same time when I interchange them.

I think I read your stoves in the basement and heating the first floor to and just trying to get it to radiant up, I do this and its hard so your stove maybe perfect but trying to get heat to rise is the trick so I am wondering how warm its downstairs to get to that 68-72 and at what temp outside

doby

I am located in Albrightsville PA.

The stove is in the basement but the heat is not radiant up to the 1st fl. There is a duct that connected from the stove to a vent on the 1st floor. The temp in the basement is around 60 degrees. Right now the outside temp is 24 degrees and the thermostat is reading 70. Have the thermostats set for 75 but it is rair that it reaches that temp. So far the only time I seen it reach 75 was when the outside temp was 40.