Keystoker KA-6 Rope Gaskets
I started my coal life with an Alaska 140, but my old oil boiler bit the dust, so I decided to upgrade to a Keystoker KA-6 dual fuel. While starting to put it together I noticed that the feeder doesn't have rope gaskets where it attaches to the boiler and where the hopper sits on top of it. Is this normal? Or should I go pick some up just to be safe? Thanks in advanced.
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Page 2 in your manual:
Stoker units are shipped entirely assembled. Lift stoker into opening, bottom of a stoker has a
¼” rod welded in place which must go inside the stoker opening. Place a thick smear of furnace
cement or high temp. silicone on flange of stoker and tilt into place, securing with 3/8 x 1 ¼
machine screws, washers, and nuts as provided.
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I would go with the Hi Temp silicon. It's a little easier to get off in the future and a little easier to put on.
I think your going to like the Keystoker. It's an improvement over the Alaska.
-Don
I would go with the Hi Temp silicon. It's a little easier to get off in the future and a little easier to put on.
I think your going to like the Keystoker. It's an improvement over the Alaska.
-Don
I put it together this afternoon, I had called Keystoker this morning and they had said that it can go either way. So being the extra safe guy I am, I did both, it is sealed up good, and I can tell that the Keystoker is about 100 times more heavy duty in every way. Plumbers come tomorrow to get it all hooked up, can't wait to fire it up, it feels like it's much more apt to be fine tuned. Thanks everyone