Reading Stove Bed
- bowersox1
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- Location: Lewisburg, Pa
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Reading Allegney Pre 2010 model
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
For some reason the bed depth on my reading stove is only putting coal less then half the hight of the cast grate. I am thinking it might be the carpet feed plate. Any help? The hopper isn't blocked up or anything clogging the opening.
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- StokerDon
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- Location: PA, Southern York County!
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Gentleman Janitor GJ-5, Van Wert VA-600, Axeman Anderson130 X3.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Welcome to the forum Sox.
I don't quite understand what you are trying to do here. The coal bed depth is not adjust able on the Tr-Burner stoker. The only thing that can make the bed deeper is if you run a higher feed rate and some ash starts sticking to the grate. In your photo, you are not at full burn so its hard to tell how deep the bed will be.
Is the stove putting out less heat than before?
-Don
I don't quite understand what you are trying to do here. The coal bed depth is not adjust able on the Tr-Burner stoker. The only thing that can make the bed deeper is if you run a higher feed rate and some ash starts sticking to the grate. In your photo, you are not at full burn so its hard to tell how deep the bed will be.
Is the stove putting out less heat than before?
-Don
- Stoker6268
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That looks and sounds about right. The coal bed generally isnt the full height of the grate.
- StokerDon
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Thats' why I was wondering. I looked through a bunch of my Tri-Burner photos and they look about the same as above. At full burn the bed is a little deeper at the hopper end though.Stoker6268 wrote:That looks and sounds about right. The coal bed generally isnt the full height of the grate.
-Don
- Doby
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Yep and you don't want it filling the grate, when I get a good clinker in there the bed gets thicker and if left the coal will eventually spill over the sides
Unless he can't get to full burn because of fines under the grate
Unless he can't get to full burn because of fines under the grate