Keystoker Glowing Coals No Heat

 
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Post by Lightning » Fri. Jan. 22, 2016 12:39 pm

bunchesofun wrote:. Right now, as I am not going anywhere, I have the ash door open AND the loading door as well
Close the load door so air will get pulled thru the ash door and up thru the fuel bed. Having the load door open to stimulate the fire is defeating your cause.

What type of damper is on the stove pipe? Manual? Barometric? Neither?

 
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Post by Lightning » Fri. Jan. 22, 2016 1:48 pm

Okay, first post says "stove pipe regulator", can I assume that means manual pipe damper?

Franco b offered great advice with a shallower coal bed and more frequent tending.

Also, I would suggest opening the manual pipe damper some to get more combustion air thru the fuel bed.

 
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Post by bunchesofun » Fri. Jan. 22, 2016 9:18 pm

Okay. So I got up at 6:30 and it was something like 66. I opened the ash door. For a while I opened the top door until all the coals (about 1/2 full) was glowing. No flames. Closed the top door. Left the bottom door open. At about 2:30 I got flames showing in the glass. Closed the ash door, picked up my daughter and went to a meeting. Just got home (9pm) and the living room was 100. We'll see if I have a fire in the morning though.

 
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Post by bunchesofun » Sat. Jan. 23, 2016 8:59 pm

Was up at 3am taking care of the fire. Got up at 8 and the temp was 78. It's now 9pm and fire still doing well. Thanks for all your help!


 
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Post by titleist1 » Sun. Jan. 24, 2016 7:58 am

Good to see you are getting positive results. The pea size will take more tending to work out for you, maybe you can get some nut or stove size and mix it in during the real cold temps.

 
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Post by McGiever » Sun. Jan. 24, 2016 8:10 am

bunchesofun wrote:Was up at 3am taking care of the fire. Got up at 8 and the temp was 78. It's now 9pm and fire still doing well. Thanks for all your help!
One of the take away lessons here is that it is best to keep the loading door closed while allowing ash pan door to be open a crack will allow to rev up a sluggish pea coal fire. :idea:

 
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Post by bunchesofun » Sun. Jan. 24, 2016 10:53 am

titleist1 wrote:Good to see you are getting positive results. The pea size will take more tending to work out for you, maybe you can get some nut or stove size and mix it in during the real cold temps.
Our supplier said we could swap out as much of our pea coal to nut coal as we want so that's good.

 
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Post by blrman07 » Sun. Jan. 24, 2016 11:14 am

From James 4:2b

".........you do not have, because you do not ask."

Slightly out of context but it still works. When you ask nicely you just might get what you want!!!


 
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Post by bunchesofun » Sun. Jan. 24, 2016 11:37 am

blrman07 wrote:From James 4:2b

".........you do not have, because you do not ask."

Slightly out of context but it still works. When you ask nicely you just might get what you want!!!
Have a good relationship with our supplier as he was one of our neighbors (rural) and we bought our stove from him and had him install it as well.

 
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Post by CapeCoaler » Sun. Jan. 24, 2016 3:27 pm

sounds like everybody is playing nice...
And everything will work out just fine...
Once you start mixing in Nut coal the stove will be your friend again...
At least get some nut for the very cold weather coming...

 
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Post by bunchesofun » Fri. Jan. 29, 2016 7:26 am

Swapped out some pea for nut. Replaced gaskets on ash and loading doors. Granted the temp hasn't gotten below 20 yet, but it's functioning like it used to, I can see the flames. That means it's at least in the 80's in the living room, if not hotter. We put a fan to direct some of that heat out of the room and circulate in the house. Thanks for all the help in figuring this out.

 
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Post by CapeCoaler » Sat. Jan. 30, 2016 8:52 pm

You can mix in some of that pea to slow the fire on the warmer days...
Just put a layer on top to slow the air thru the Nut coal...
Glad to hear Nut brought the stove back to its former self...
And gave you your sanity back...
Thanks for the follow up...
Helps everyone confirm original suspicions and hunches... :!:

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