One Match Club Membership Lost!
- CoalHeat
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- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
Grates jammed on the stove this morning, managed to get them moving.
My membership in the one match club is done for this year.
Grates are jammed again. Happened on the first move of the shaking lever. I dislodged whatever it is when it jammed this morning, but I can't get it free again. I was poking around from under the grates tonight, but the stove started to overfire, so I gave up.
Not adding any more coal, if it's out tomorrow night I'll empty it.
Probably is a stone.
- 2001Sierra
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- Location: Wynantskill NY, 10 miles from Albany
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Keystoker 90 Chimney vent
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
- Other Heating: Buderus Oil Boiler 3115-34
Matches are cheap Carry on Been there, done that. Nothing broke you are a heroWood'nCoal wrote:
Grates jammed on the stove this morning, managed to get them moving.
My membership in the one match club is done for this year.
Not adding any more coal, if it's out tomorrow night I'll empty it.
Probably is a stone.
- CoalHeat
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- Posts: 8862
- Joined: Sat. Feb. 10, 2007 9:48 pm
- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
I know the stove well enough by now. It 's gotta go out and be emptied.
At least I'll find out why it's stuck.
- windyhill4.2
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- Location: Jonestown,Pa.17038
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1960 EFM520 installed in truck box
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Crane 404 with variable blower
- Coal Size/Type: 404-nut, 520 rice ,anthracite for both
Last yr was our first yr to burn coal,we lit our stove on Nov. 1 & left it die in early April when our coal got all & our repair shop work load went crazy. This season, we have lit it multiple times & left it go out because of the warm outside temps.We currently have it lit,& are once again eyeing the warm temps forecast later this week.It is not crucial to have the stove for heat as the EFM is very capable of the job. The stove is a wonderful WARM spot for us tho.
- CoalHeat
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- Posts: 8862
- Joined: Sat. Feb. 10, 2007 9:48 pm
- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
I went through the recent warm weather with windowstats open so I could keep it going too!
Life goes on.
Life goes on.
- SWPaDon
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- Location: Southwest Pa.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Clayton 1600M
- Coal Size/Type: Bituminous
- Other Heating: Oil furnace
I did the same, and I'm burnin bit coal. But I finally had to let it go out, just too hot in the house.Wood'nCoal wrote:I went through the recent warm weather with windowstats open so I could keep it going too!
Life goes on.
- Lightning
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- Joined: Wed. Nov. 16, 2011 9:51 am
- Location: Olean, NY
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Modified AA 130
- Coal Size/Type: Pea Size - Anthracite
Wood n coal, what brand coal are you using?
Still on my first lite so far. This batch of coal I'm using this year isn't clinkering or have any shale. I might be able to do one match, we'll see.
Still on my first lite so far. This batch of coal I'm using this year isn't clinkering or have any shale. I might be able to do one match, we'll see.
- Sunny Boy
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- Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
- Location: Central NY
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
- Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
- Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
- Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace
This winter, it's no surprise needing more than one match ! I can't figure out if I need to wear long johns, or shorts, so I wear both !
Paul
Paul
- freetown fred
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- Location: Freetown,NY 13803
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: HITZER 50-93
- Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut
Indeed. With the way the weather is, this year is more about luck then skill--Ya done good W'nC
- Photog200
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- Location: Fulton, NY
- Baseburners & Antiques: Colonial Clarion cook stove, Kineo #15 base burner & 2 Geneva Oak Andes #517's
- Coal Size/Type: Blaschak Chestnut
- Other Heating: Electric Baseboard
I have let mine go out twice now because of warm spells. I wanted to make it in the one match club this year too but hey, there's always next year.
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- Location: somewhere high in the catskill mountains
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Don't feel bad, you are not alone. This year when I fired up couldn't get near the draft that I thought should be there; So I let the boiler go out, removed the pipe & looked for anything that I may have missed in Spring, or maybe a mouse nets. Guess what, everything was clean. Musta just been the warmer temps reducing the draft. Oh well better safe than sorry.
Jim
Jim
- coalkirk
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- Location: Forest Hill MD
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1981 EFM DF520 retired
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Jotul 507 on standby
- Coal Size/Type: Lehigh anthracite/rice coal
With this crazy weather I didn't even try this year. I've let the boiler go out and relit 3 times so far. And this week we are forecast to have 60's again so it's going out again this week.
- Lightning
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- Location: Olean, NY
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- Coal Size/Type: Pea Size - Anthracite
The only reason I kept mine idling thru warm spells was to prevent corrosion on my new stove pipe lol. Also I suppose it helped heat my domestic hot water a little.
- hotblast1357
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- Other Heating: air source heat pump, oil furnace
im still on the first match on 9/26.