Reading Stove Bed

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Post by bowersox1 » Sat. Mar. 21, 2015 8:38 pm

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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Post by StokerDon » Sun. Mar. 22, 2015 9:34 am

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?

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Post by Stoker6268 » Sun. Mar. 22, 2015 10:31 am

That looks and sounds about right. The coal bed generally isnt the full height of the grate.


 
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Post by StokerDon » Sun. Mar. 22, 2015 12:56 pm

Stoker6268 wrote:That looks and sounds about right. The coal bed generally isnt the full height of the grate.
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.

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Post by Doby » Sun. Mar. 22, 2015 1:55 pm

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

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